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Greetin's ye swabs, I be havin' a very fine pirate lass to offer and I be lookin' fer some sails from the Black Seas Barracuda. I'd like to get one each of the sails from the masts (one large and one small) and one jib. Thanks for lookin'! Dave -- (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Uncertain Definition of a Ship Type...?
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(...) Check at (URL). Quoting from that page: (...) Steve (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Cool custom Islanders
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Well, rats! Here someone else has come along and glommed onto my own concepts before I got them out onto the web. In my case, these approaches were driven by a Dark Age which covered the period of Islanders, so that I've had to pick up incomplete (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Don't know is anyone's tried this yet, but Native American heads look much better on Islander torsos IMO. The face vary with the paint job so you have more individuals instead of a bunch of guys who paint their face the same way. BTW, The female (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Ahoy, mateys! Arrrr! I made a self-portrait of myself as a Lego Pirate Minifig (Captain) armed with a cutlass and a pistol. Here's the URL: (URL) in case you are LCAD-literate, here are the DAT files for the pirate weapons. cutlass: (3 URLs) LMKWYT. (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: What class of ship is the BSB?
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(...) Did I interpret that correctly? If so: The spanker is a large gaff-rigged sail at the rear of a ship, usually mounted on the back side of an otherwise square rigged mast. It is sometimes refered to as the driver. 6289 Redbeard Runner has a (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Pirate Project
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) Clearly it (...) I should have mentioned that I asked Steve a question about cannon a few months ago... Oh, I just dug into the exchange and found more info... Here is the response to my first e-mail: (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Why, when it dances! (rim shot) (...) The _Thomas W. Lawson_ holds the world's record for most masts on a sailing ship. T'was a 1910s schooner, IIRC, and it had *seven* masts. I have no idea what you'd call the four extras. Interesting page, (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: What class of ship is the BSB?
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(...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) masts...? Foremast, foreward mainmast, mainmast, and mizzen. And I have no doubt that there are exceptions to the rule. When a mizzen becomes a jigger, I don't know. (...) Dunno what the Thomas W. Lawson is. Bruce (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Pirate Project
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(...) Blue water, red death? Yes, I like to switch hulls and rigging around to create ships with different looks. (...) I find myself snagging bits and pieces at auctions that I have no current use for, but will probably need for just such projects (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build)
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(...) Confused. The hull is meant to be reminiscent of a galleon with its high castles. But galleons usually had three masts, not two. The Skull's Eye Schooner is a closer to a galleon with the third mast mounting a lateen sail. The mizzenmast could (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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This weekend I finally sat down and started on my "Red Seas Barracuda". My original intent for the RSB was to use Red Beard Runner hulls, and build a ship using the BSB directions but using dark grey instead of black as much as possible, and red (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build)
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On Sun, 7 May 2000, Bruce Schlickbernd (<Fu64x8.n2H@lugnet.com>) wrote at 02:43:56 (...) Ah. Didn't think of that. Thanks. Given that the rudder was generally not very good for manoeuvring, having a sail as far back as possible increases the (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | What class of ship is the BSB?
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What type of ship is the BSB? (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hi. (...) I was waiting for this. I tossed you a soft pitch, and fully expected you to hit it out of the park. ;) (...) Oooh, thanks. I was more concerned about how it has historically been employed. "Bomb Ketch" is what I'm most familiar with. (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) a (...) That entirely depends on where the rudder is in relation to the extreme above- waterline stern. If you have sufficient rear overhang, the rudder-post (which is what counts here) will be forward of that. I've always felt yawls look (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) a (...) Not necessarily. While it isn't necessarily anything of a statement about real ships, take a look at the Skull's Eye Schooner. The mizzenmast is just about above the tail edge of the rudder. I looked through my ship books, and didn't (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Sat, 6 May 2000, Bruce Schlickbernd (<Fu5MI1.M3F@lugnet.com>) wrote at 20:06:01 (...) I'm curious now. If a mast is aft of the rudder, isn't it in the sea? (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) My son and I get out the glove and baseball and play ketch. No? (...) From the front to the back: foremast, mainmast, mizzenmast. The mizzenmast is aft (rear of ship) of the mainmast. This being a two-masted ship (all at once, "that means it's (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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