JoshuaRed

Personal Items: Bottles Pewterware Clothing Buttons Pouches Inkwells Personal Seal (the one with two birds) Specie Dice Belt Buckles Shoe Buckles Jewelry, rings...etc Small Arms: Grenadoes Musket Parts Pistol Parts Shot & Tools Sword Pommel Cartridge Box Ship: Cleats/Deadeyes Nails & Hardware Hinges, etc. Cannon Swivel Guns Shot

I would rank it by: Clothing (Including personal items, everyday items. My favorite piece in the exhibit was the shoe/legbone/stocking combo) Small Arms Coins & Specie Cannon I would gladly pay good money for a publication on this material, especially if it contained detailed macro shots and drawings/digital reconstructions of what the undamaged original item would have looked like.

When I went I took many detailed pics of the artifacts for my records. They're very generous in allowing cameras in. Sure, the giftshop was the standard mix of piratey-tourist swag, but I did drop about a hundred bucks there in many hard to find books, including a stellar book on colonial life in the Mass Bay Colony that is stuffed with great info culled from original sources. Corsair, I wonder if one possible option would be to one day merge the collection with Pirate Soul in Key West? They've got the bucks and Class A presentation platform, you've got the real deal stuff and loads of it. What a duo!

Anyone who can make it to P-town should go see this museum. It blew me away. WELL worth the drive alllll the way around the Cape. :)

Yeah just look at any period wedding ceremony appropriate to the era of the pirates to which you refer. Course you'd have to pick from Catholic, Protestant, Puritan, Muslim...just like today.

LOL I had given up looking for these, not even the area comic shops sold them. Then last night I took my son into 7-11 for a freakin' Spongebob Icee and there on the counter was a brand new, just opened box of Pirates of the Spanish Main packs! The guy said they just got them in that day. I snagged 3 just to check em out, see what the fuss is about. I'm impressed! Though that microscopic die is more of a joke than anything... Course I'm getting on the boat a little late...I'm two sets behind!

Freakin' sweet! I love Tiki. All things Tiki. And pirates too! Such a nice fantasy combo....

Hey they'll be jealous! Buccaneers definitely had more fun defiling themselves on rum, roast pig, bananas and whores in the Caribbean than the Buckskinners had in the frosty North American mountains and such.

Awesome Patrick, just awesome. You look like you walked out right out of the pages of Esquemeling.

Seriously Patrick, when this all comes together, you should put up a comprehensive site with pics on "Becoming a Buccaneer". I'd be glad to help with making the site if you supply the copy and pics. Actually it could be a NICE addition to Greg's already great site. Greg?

Hey THAT is nice! I really admire all the effort you're putting into this, Hand.

Wasn't much of Hispaniola naturally deforested by the throngs of cattle left by the Spanish during the time of the buccaneers? I thought I read somewhere that they pretty much wiped out alot of the vegetation.

How else would they get to the savannahs? Kidding. But pigs are tenacious little thugs and would have fled straight into the thickest woods they could find to hide once wounded.

Yeah I know it's just a test, but the cut is looking good. I can't wait to see the results!

Yeah my mom buys suet for her many bird feeders. Ick!

If you're going for authenticity Hand, less is more! I think your rig is lookin pretty good. I'd maybe pass on the Jane Fonda leg warmers...but they would look cool for a pic...get some rips and bloodstains on 'em from slewsloggin' thru the dense tropical jungle while hunting....

Hey lookin' good, Hand! Nice. So, perhaps just maybe some buccaneers really did "go commando" while ashore? Seems feasible, considering the heat and isolation from the civilized world...do you think they ever hacked their slops/breeches off above the knee for the period equivilant of shorts?

Good luck! I'm eager to see the results. Re: Dampier & Snapsacks. I always assumed he was referring to what we call haversacks...are we on track with this Foxe?

I love the story of the Hunley too, but I don't think you'll have much luck with a Civil War submarine given our subject matter here. All I know is what I've read on their website.

Please by all means! I'll email you the full size pic if you like, it's large.

Here's a detail of the shoes. While I don't doubt this image is 17th century, I'm thinking maybe it's closer to 1690's.

Here is today's artist: Cornelis Dusart Young Man with a Raised Glass 1680s [Note: Original Image missing, replaced 7/8/14 by Mission.] It doesn't specifically name him as a seaman, but he has the look so I thought I'd post it. This is a nice candid.

That's a good pic - thanks for adding it.

Mutiny! Who dares take my labor of love off topic?!

LOL you'll have a blast when you look at these posts tomorrow morning after you've sobered up mate...