Zorg

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Think of it as an exercise program. I'll admit, the doglock is a moose, but I loves matchin sizes at rendezvous....

Actually most of the pistols up to the revolver era were smoothbores, unless they were duelling or match guns. Guess they figured short range is short range.....

Wouldn't count on it, lass. I'm bringin a straw...

look again, lad, those be bona fide Boardin Axes. Oh, nice nice nice stuff

Actually, fer the period, life on a democratically run privateer was probably less sucky than most, especially if you got lucky with some careless Spaniard. At least ya had medical and retirement, which half of us in this country STILL aint got. Plus the fashions were spiffy

I say we board them

Um...you guys DON'T live like that....

Ye could wind up with a second job outa this....

I've been really happy with the doglock I got a few months ago from Loylalist Arms and repair. I've got a couple of flintlocks, and this one is by far the most relaible, spark wise. I think Pendersoli or any number of other manufacturers make reliable guns. The other question is (regarding period) what period are ya lookin to portray. Doglocks go from very late 1500s all the way through the mid 1700s (so the Swedes are a little slow sometimes) but a queen anne would be from the late 1600s on.....It be not so much What yr shootin, but When :)

Havin worked Hollyweird fer a number of years in the past, I knows the methodolgy: 1, hotly deny anything you'd like to become a rumor 2, see if anyone bites, 3, reluctantly admit its true if anyone threatens to write ya a check... :)

Y knows, it seems to me the more money they gets, the stupider they gits....

An interestin question, stynky lad, since I doesn't know what haf of em look like.

Sounds like Zorg! :) You can take the man out of the theatre but you can't take the theatre out of the man! The lass knows me too well... :)

thats gotta be my favorite pix of Duncan.... :)

Here's some new ones.....especially cute ones of little Catherine. The Juryrig gallery

New pix comin shortly as soon as I can get em downsized.... :)

OOOOOHHHH we did indeed...

Actually period dinnerware is pretty easy to come up with. I hit the goodwill yesterday and got two wooden plates and some silverware for $3.

I do know he said he couldn't feel the warmth of a woman's flesh..but this, does this mean he'll eat her raw? Hmmm.... most likely not until she's raw.... but I have no doubt she'll be chafed a little. Ok, no more road trips for you with Red Maria....she's rubbing off.

Some of the accuracy stuff drives me crazy, mostly when there's really no agreement about dates on stuff, but people still try to set out hard and fast guidelines. So much of the Renfaire stuff is just plain wrong, making the Elizabethans to be a good deal more primative and closer to middle ages technologies, fashions, and learning than they were. Im currently in a bruhaha about just WHEN the transitions from snaphaunce to English lock to Doglock occured. One of the SCA sites is about a century off on its dates for this, others are too early, from what i can tell, but all of them are ABsolutely CORRECT! Just ask em. Sigh More wine. Too early in the evening to be this sober.....

Okay, so thus far I got: Selestia Mad Woman Cheryl Zorg Mad Mistress Hawkinson El Pirata Silverhearted Maggie Duncan McGuyver IndigoJack Stynky Tudor Tentative attendees..... Raven Cole Captain William Privateer Pete Stynky Tudor Are there any of the above who A) Shant be participating in costume as a reenactor or are bringing spousal types also in garb? I needs to be able to tell em about the dinner on the Nickle Saturday nite. The above list does NOT include people already performing at the thang. A reminder, that dinner is period dress, bring your own period plate and eatin devices..... Z just needs ta know how many uf us thar be

YOIKS what a site. Okay, Ill have two from column "b" and.......

zorg- damn it ...my hubby is telling me to go for the whole weekend...b@$*Ard! i would feel too guilty... anywho...remember what i wore to flints? would you like to borrow that waistcoat? I thank ye, Paisley, but I finally sweet talked our costumer inta building me one. :) Couldn't ya just send em a donation? I tell ya what, if ya comes and stays, we'll all contribute to a pot fer the cause. I know, Im a bastard..... :)

Just had a conversation with John Glass, who coordinates the renactors for Hampton. If we're willing to be townsfolk for the festival and fill in the pyrate camp, he's reserving us 11 spots in the period dinner sat night aboard the Kalamar Nyckel . Its period, so its garb only, and ye'll have to bring yr own trencher and utensils (no plastic plates). To answer a question: There are no peace tie regulations, etc. They do, however, want all steel to be in sheath or scabbard, and firelocks that are to be discharged (there's a point at which the pirate camp unloads on a british longboat) must be inspected and tagged prior to this (to keep things from going boom in a bad way). Duncan and I are likely to be in the performance, with duncan doin the bailiff and me understudying Capt Brand. This is gonna be a hoot! Anybody going down got a waistcoate we can borrow? Most of our stuff is slightlly early fer this period. Z :) PS can we do a reiteration of who all is goin down and would be interested in participatin and doin the dinner on the Kalamar Nyckel. I know this is rudundant with some of you on here that are already set to participate. What I mostly need to know is who is headed down that they DON'T already know about. Z