JoshuaRed

Foxe, that would be SO cool if you made cheese buttons. Send pics!!

Plus you have to figure that buttons were constantly coming off, getting lost, breaking off, etc...at sea a sailor would make replacements with whatever was at hand. Spare wood, hard cheese, bone, etc...and there had to be a huge range of sizes and looks from these handmade on-the-fly jobs.

Yes, and it's also entirely possible that there were some successful pirate crews out there that managed to operate under the radar, without ever being discovered or caught. Efficient, ordinary seamen who very quickly and very quietly stole a few ships and vanished into history without leaving time for sensationalist stories about them to arise. After all, most of the "Notorious Pyrates" are the ones who ultimately were caught and brought to justice. There were plenty more who lived to tell, but smartly DIDN'T tell and took their deeds to their graves.

My waistcoat buttons are about 1/2 inch. My shirt collar/cuff buttons are tiny, only 1/4". I hand carved them from Mahogany, as I figured it's something a GAOP pirate would have had plenty of access to due to all the logging they did. Same thing for my slops buttons, but they are bigger, about 3/4".

Quite a bit of fun in the sun, John! Got our annual passes to Disney and rode up a storm on POTC last weekend...probably going back for more this weekend! Going to St Augustine soon, and then PIP this winter. Lotsa piratey goodness.

Perhaps Roberts sent one of his cruisers off to plunder the Canaries then rendezvous with him back at Africa?

Oh yeah THAT looks very familar!!

Well let's say he took the Onslow in very early August. Do you think that would give him enough time to reach the Canaries in Sept at some point? He certainly could have made it back to Africa by Jan. '22. Also, have the dates your reference mentions been updated to our modern calendar? That could account for the discrepancy.

Good question. Give me a week or more to pore through my books and I might find it....five ships? That's a major player. And Bart was by and large the last major player...so I'm stumped. Sure it was English?

According to Patrick Pringle, who based his account on the original trial proceedings of Robert's crew: "So about the middle of 1721 he went back to the Guinea coast. Here he ravaged the shipping of the Royal African Company, and by the end of the year his total number of prizes was over four hundred. In August he took the Royal African Company frigate Onslow, which he refitted and renamed the Royal Fortune, giving the previous ship of that name to the captain of the Onslow. He sailed with two consorts, Great Ranger and Little Ranger, and continued to cruise off the Guinea coast." He goes on to state that in Jan. 1722 H.M.S. Swallow, commanded by Cpt Ogle, sighted Roberts at anchor off Cape Lopez. So Johnson was right, by and large.

Yeah and he's even flanked by two buccaneer groupies admiring his duds! They're all over him!

Those tables...are SO....cool! WOW!

Foxe ye better start growin' yer hair out a bit mate, as those chaps have a severe case of bedhead! :) And Patrick, again man, EXCELLENT work. Looking at your pics against the ones Foxe just posted...you are spot on man!

I find that the score from Last of the Mohicans get used A LOT. Ad nauseum, almost!

Not much. When early movie teasers are shown, often the score is not yet complete so they "lease" other scores for the teasers. POTC used the score for Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the new Zorro flick uses POTC's score.

Stellar work, Patrick, I love it.

Hawkyns, that is truly impressive! Be swift with the pics!

"Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea" by Marcus Rediker "Captain Kidd and the War Against The Pirates" by Robert Ritchie These, plus period writings by Dampier, Woodes Rogers and Silas Told REALLY helped clear the cobwebs of myth for me, in addition to Cordingly of course. :)

Why not set up a traditional boucanier spit and roast a pig Esquemeling style?

Now yer talkin...I LOVE Flogging Molly!!! My favorite band these past few years.

Oh MAN you are so lucky Francois! Where is this ship based out of? I'd say your experience sounds like an unattainable dream for many of us! The only thing that would make it more authentic would be to ditch the emergency gear, the engine, the GPS and try takin' her from New York to Madagascar! Huzzah and congrats on getting to experience such a thing!

Yeah Maryland's finest royally screwed me while going past Baltimore on 95! C'mon! Speeding? On 95? Geez, it's called survival!!

Well this thread certainly puts the A S S in Astrolabe, doesn't it?

I do love that Old Bailey site though...many's the slow day at work that I've whiled away the hours perusing that fascinating stuff! Btw John, how's the snuff treating you? Have you partaken since the Pyrate Feast? I gotta say that was much better than I imagined it would be.....

Nice!! That would make a sweet tattoo! Hmmm....Pynch? ?