Master Sully

The guys on the NINA docked on the outer south pier in the bay. The downtown marina's # is 843-524-4422. Let me know when you are coming and I'll be happy to take ya'll on a tour! Also ran into the S/V Denis Sullivan and crew at the Savannah Seafood Fest tonight. She's a 3 masted schooner from Wisconsin. They are headed back to Charleston tomorrow, and then down to Key West in time for PiP. One of the crew is a fellow pirate! There home base # is 414-765-9966. Have fun in Chucktown! Be sure to go to the Queen Anne's Revenge resturaunt. The pirate/ maritime collection is unbelievable and the food is great to boot! Pyle's originals are on the walls there. P.S. little known pirate fact The Stede Bonnet & Richard Worley memorial headstone is in the northeast corner of the Battery Park downtown.

Welcome to my waters Cap'n! While ya'll head south are you staying on the ICW or heading further out. I was hoping you might stop in the other Beaufort ( SC), pronounced like beautiful fort, at the waterfront. The NINA, SANTA MARIA, BOUNTY, and other famous replicas have all stopped here a few times and would love to have you! The town is very similar to Charleston with many old homes. It was the home to the first English settlement before they moved to Charleston, first French settlement, first Scottish settlement, and second Spanish settlement in the Americas. Very historic! Lot's of waterfront pubs and taverns. This is all an excuse to take a fellow pirate and crew to dinner in my hometown! What say you?

I was doing some research on early American water craft and stumbled on this site www.privateermedia.com . I work for a special event/ prop shop where we fake this sort of stuff. This on the otherhand is the REAL deal, and they're available for rentals. Cannons, maps, and boats oh my!!! MODERATOR EDIT: Made link active.

I got a pair of Fugawee's also. I like the look, but the first thing you do is get a pair of cushioned inserts. They ain't comfy.

What if we had some street light banners made, a dozen or so, and had them hung up and down Duval street for a week before and during the fest. We can get a permit from city hall, I can print them fairly cheap, and find a local to hang them up.

I've talked with several pirates, who have been to PiP ( myself included ), and we feel the festival is headed in the wrong direction. Festivals and especially vendors need a large crowd to be successful. By isolating ourselves in the fort, we create a party for ourselves, not the community. Hell, I would say half the people that live in KW even know the fort exists!. Up until a few years ago that area was the confiscated boat yard, and wasn't open to the public. The most important thing to remember is that 90% of the people who attend are tourists. They certainly don't know where the fort is. We should really get the cruise ships to get intrested in PiP, and get shuttles to run the people from Mallory Square to the fort. Roamers should walk the streets promoting the fest and give info on transportation. The demonstrations and encampments sound awesome, but with out the people, PiP can't survive much longer.

I found Don's 2007 pirate calendar in a Books-a-Million in Dallas today. WOW WOW WOW!!! I love to see his new artwork and some of his classics together. It's nice to see him get more exposure... good work Don!

Give credit to the History Channel for making a program about what we all love here on the pub. I would just ask them to watch their titles in the future. I sat down with a "tub of popcorn and a soda" to watch a down and dirty documentary about criminals and murderers, but instead saw Hollywood rear it's ugly head. Let's all sign on as advisors next time around.

<Out of character> Hey Pat, whose to say there weren't a few cliffs before the big shake up. Port Royal is a little low lying now, but I saw some high bluffs across the harbor in Spanish Towne.

Does anyone know where to find grappling hooks and/or boat pikes of 17th-18th century style? If not maybe a blacksmith interested in fabricating some. Thanks for any info.

"I'm a wee bit confused, mate.....It seems by description, you are seeking something like an 'all periods' ''Faire"(vendors, food, stage) as compared to a living history interpretation (cooking on the ground, the world is a stage)....Might be a hard sell until a more image-presenting description emerges........Good luck, tho'"........ the Royaliste I've never been to a fest like this, that covers several centuries, not a specific time. Beaufort County, South Carolina is the second oldest city( besides St. Augustine) in America. It was the home of the first French, Scottish, Swiss, and German settlements in America. Most of this has been looked over because only the English settlement prospered. An event that covers these periods has never been attempted here. If any, we have a local Confederate regiment that sets up at our museum twice a year. We have several festivals a year involving Wine, Wings, and Seafood, but nothing covering our heritage. I would like to fuse the excitement of culinar/ music fest with several encampents of reenactors. I wanted the local tribes to have a chance to sell their pottery and allow other similar vendors to sell their goods. There is alot of money sitting in the pockets of these retiree's. "The first thing they see and want is easy parking without wasting time! Get some volunteers from say the highschool pep squad to understand the need to move em in and move em out. (Quickly will pay its dividends for the upcomming festivals.) if its bolixed its all everyone will talk about for months "...Diego If all goes well the event will be on a 30 acre spread on an historic plantation, with huge amounts of preset parking. The luck is that the local museum owns the property and the museum volunteers can direct traffic and tickets. "You may want to contact Willie Wobble"...Hurricane His event seems alot like what I want to happen. I'll have to get more details on how it is run.

I am presenting to a comittee a living history festival proposal for my home town. This would include people representing Native Americans (Catawba), 16th century Spanish explorers and settlers, 16th century French settlers, 17th century Scottish settlers, 17th century English settlers, 18th century Swiss and German settlers, Pirates, Native Americans in war paint (Yemassee), British Royal Foot, South Carolina Militia, 3rd SC Calvary, Confederate artillery, Federal troops, sailors, and surgeons, WWI Marine, WWII/Korean War Marine, Viet Nam Marine pilot, and a modern Marine. Whew! It's a big undertaking, but I'm up for it. Our history here is very extensive but as more land becomes golf courses, out-of-towners move here to retire, and locals move away to the big city, our history is left in old dusty books in the library. I want to create a festival that is very entertaing for all ages, and reminds us how our country came to be. My question is : In your past experiences at festivals such as this, what made it a success or failure, was a hit or miss, and entertained people of all ages? It will run Fri-Sun so that school groups can attend on Friday, camps for each period, lot's of food from local resturaunts, entertainment stage, battlefield, and a huge trading post/ vendors tent. Wandering pirates and Native Americans will harass and amuse the public, live firing demonstrations, calvary and troop drilling, and archealogical displays. I really want his to work and go on anually for several years. Any information will be a great help.

I built a chest not to long ago, and it was pretty easy. I built mine out of 1x12's from Home Depot, 2 gate hinges, and 2 hasps. It was a rectangle shape, more like than the real thing than the hump back in the cartoons. Cost was about $50 all together. You could make yours out of a reconfigured box, reattach the lid with some glued on fabric strips, hot glue some buttons to simulate rivets, and finish it with a cool paint job. Just don't forget to fill it with lot's of booty.

Has anyone attempted to build their own gibbet? I'm assembling the pieces to make my own shortly and was wanting some advice. I've got alot of oak barrel iron bands which I'm going to reshape and bolt together to form the shape of a body. Any help is good help.

Black Sam Bellamy is my man! He was never caught, ran his own little pirate town for awhile, made a lot of money, but went down with his ship and all his ill-gotten gain. I think he had a good run at it and I wish I could " Be like Sam"!

I think many people start off with whatever gear is available in there price range. Personally, I picked up pieces here and there that were mostly in the fantasy/ ren area. As I learned more about period sutlers, I purchased better gear. Now I have 3 different kits; Hollywood/ fantasy for the kids, a period kit for schools and museums, and I'm working on a nasty, disease ridden, filthy kit for full emursion into the pirate lifestyle. The most important thing about it all is having fun!

SURF'S UP! I've been enjoying the swells, and the north easters rock!

Does anyone out there in Pirate land make monmouth caps? It's a simple knit design cap much like a stocking cap. I can purchase a pattern, but I don't know how to knit. Can anyone help? Thank You

Thanks guys. I checked a 50 mile radius of gunshops in both GA and SC and no luck. Everyone's got smokeless powder, but I would rather not blow my hand off. Powder Inc will probably work for me.

Please help me. I'm trying to find a place to order black powder from, possibly in the Southeast.

What do others wear with their kits? I started several years ago with a baldric, but after seeing so many period engravings, I now wear a sword belt. I've read where baldrics went out of style in the late 17th century and commoners and soldiers alike began wearing belts instead. I like both of them, but for different reasons. I have a heavy cutlass which works well with the baldric, and a hanger in my sword belt. Rapiers also work well for the baldric, since they are too large for the belt. A smallsword would probably work well with the sword belt. To tell you the truth, the sword belt is much more comfy. It stays secure to your side, doesn't fly up, and your sword is always where you left it. The baldric slides around much too often, especially when walking alot. I know that I'm not the only one that almost tripped up on scabbard. I'm curious as to what others think about the two?

You absolutley must go to the Queen Anne's Revenge restaraunt on Daniel Island, 20 minutes from downtown. More period weapons than I've ever seen in any museum, fill display cases all around the place. Howard Pyle's original painting of the Marooned is on the wall in the bar. There is one pirate walking tour that a Ghost touring company runs, but I can't remember the name. The museum is always a fun place to spend the day. Charlestowne Landing has a colonial village and an old ship at it's dock. Hope this helps.

Thank you mates for those kind blessings!

Well today I've been walking around in a daze. Last night I put my girlfriend on a train for New York. She has wanted to try life there as long as she could remember, and tried her hardest to convince me to go as well. Last week she met a woman from Manhattan who had a room to rent out, and saw this as her chance to go. I know that I could have easily talked her out of this, but I also saw this as a once in a lifetime opportunity. I could not live with myself if she didn't get the chance to live in NYC. She's there safe and sound now and I'm planning a trip up there for Halloween. I hate that city, but maybe a weekend with her there might change my mind. Any way please join me in a toast to my love Carla, "I hope her all the luck in her adventures in the Big Apple, stay safe, and most importantly have a blast! "CHEERS!!!!!!

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