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Re: John E. Doolittle (Update)
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:19:58 GMT
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Guys,
Now I know replying to your own posts is not exactly de rigeur, but I could
use the expertise of someone who knows something about sailing ships.
John E Doolittle has managed to rescue the (I've had just about enough of
thinking of superlatives for tonight) Aurora, but in writing up the tactics
and battle, I fear my reach has exceeded my grasp.
http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/port/doo/do6.htm
No doubt some of you will recognise the mistakes of language, structure and
tactics - pointers would be helpful :-)
A warning, do6 alone is now 30(odd)k of text. I'll fully understand if the
reading and offering corrections takes a bit of time.
regards
Richard
Still baldly going...
Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/port/
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| (...) Hard a'starboard. A command that will actually turn the boat to the left (port, larboard). The command is which way to turn the wheel, not the boat. I think (and here I was watching the America's Cup last night and didn't notice how it works (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Mr L F Braun wrote (...) theft-with-the-help-...ber-locals thing--after all, that ship will take quite a few people to operate, even if the captain goes along with it (because in order for it to succeed, you've got to do it without most of the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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