While a ship may seem the most important thing to a Pyrate (or any seafaring sort), there is an unsung hero o’ ships, docks, warehouses…and just about anything on land or sea involving the transport o’ goods…ROPE! Used to secure a line to a dock, drop anchor at sea, make/mend nets, rigging for the sails…
Thursday 10 Aug. NO WALK Due to construction in the area…sorry for the late notice!
A brief introduction…my matrilineal Great Uncle, Joseph Cyprien Béchard, was a very smart man – for someone who never went to school past 8th grade. Born in Québec, Canada in 1889 he moved to Massachusetts at about the age o’ 16. In those days, crossing that particular border was a small thing – if ye…
Happened across this again today…it bears re-posting and a single, historical correction. This is the most powerful scene & song in the entirety o’ the POTC series. Historically, it’s a dead ringer (pardon the pun) – examples like this were not uncommon in both the Caribbean and on Wapping Dock in London. Often those hanged…
Avast mates, it’s International Talk Like a Pyrate Day (as it is every 19 Sept.)! Created by our mates John ‘Ol Chumbucket’ Baur & Mark ‘Cap’n Slappy’ Summers – who are presently raid…er…visiting the coast o’ California in honour o’ #ITLAPD – AND, the launch o’ Chumbucket’s new Pyrate tale, “Chrissie Warren: Pirate Hunter”; available…
