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 Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:44 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:45 am
Rules and all that ooc sort of jazz will come when I find out whether anyone is interested. When We Are: June, 1692.Profile form Blatantly stolen from Argentine.the.Tangerine. I want you to do your thing with this profile. Add images, colours, formatting, make it your own, but include all of the content and prompts.
Insert words here.[image goes here]
[links to other images go here]
Hello. My name is: FULL NAME.
LALALALALALALALABut feel free to call me: NICKNAMES.
The Basics:
I was born: [birthday]
Gender:
I left my childhood behind: [Age]
I grew up to be: [height/weight]
And went to sea to: [job]
But I wanted to be: [childhood dream job]
Background Check:
I would describe myself as: [personality description in at least two paragraphs]
But others would probably say I was: [little blurbs]
The things I love more than the sea... or almost as much: [things they like]
But totally hate: [things they hate/fear]
I have this thing: [quirks]
I live for: [hobbies]
I am a result of my environment.
The family tree: [known relatives, if they may be useful or important]
My Biography: [Character history. Make it juicy and interesting. If you need a guideline, I'd like at least four paragraphs.]
If I could start over: [Anything your character would change about their past.]
Behind the Rigging:
I am the puppet of: [username]
Who paints me with: [font colors] More words here. [size=14]Insert words here.[/size]
[align=center][image goes here]
[links to other images go here][/align]
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[align=center]Hello. My name is: FULL NAME.
[color=white]LALALALALALALALA[/color]But feel free to call me: NICKNAMES.
[b][u]The Basics:[/b][/u]
I was born: [birthday]
Gender:
I left my childhood behind: [Age]
I grew up to be: [height/weight]
And went to sea to: [job]
But I wanted to be: [childhood dream job]
[b][u]Background Check:[/b][/u]
I would describe myself as: [personality description in at least two paragraphs]
But others would probably say I was: [little blurbs]
The things I love more than the sea... or almost as much: [things they like]
But totally hate: [things they hate/fear]
I have this thing: [quirks]
I live for: [hobbies]
[b][u]I am a result of my environment.[/b][/u]
The family tree: [known relatives, if they may be useful or important]
My Biography: [Character history. Make it juicy and interesting. If you need a guideline, I'd like at least four paragraphs.]
If I could start over: [Anything your character would change about their past.]
[b][u]Behind the Rigging:[/b][/u]
I am the puppet of: [username]
Who paints me with: [font colors][/size][/align]
[align=right][size=14]More words here.[/size][/align]
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:47 am
Potentially useful info/links Piracy Time Line
http://www.thepirateking.com/index.htm
http://tallships.sailtraining.org/sailrigs.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing
http://yachting.web.cern.ch/yachting/Dictionary/dict.html
http://www.glenans-ireland.com/files/ENtoFR.PDF
http://www.theageofsail.com/images/sails.jpg
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/Shared/images/shipsails_diagram.jpg
http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/virtual/rigging/sails.htm
http://www.rmhh.co.uk/files/interest/sails.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/rogerart/seven.html
http://www.jsward.com/shanty/index.shtml
http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/Tune.html
http://www.stormy.ca/marine/shanties.html
http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/styles/sea.html
http://parlorsongs.com/insearch/seasongs/shanties.asp
http://members.ispwest.com/ronsmith/liverpool/ss_index.htm
http://www.dickholdstock.com/shanties.html
http://www.shanty.org/content/english/shanties/shanties2.php
Shanties
Shanties are the work songs that were used on the square-rigged ships of the Age of Sail. Their rhythms coordinated the efforts of many sailors hauling on lines. Much loved by modern sailors and folk musicians, they are rarely used as work songs today. This is because modern rigging doesn't require many people to be working in the same rhythm for long periods.
There are many kinds of traditional shanties: short haul shanties, halyard shanties, capstan shanties, rowing shanties, cotton-screwing shanties, stamp-and-go (or walk-and-go) shanties, bunting shanties, etc. Each style is based on the work to which they are sung. The primary separation of shanties is whether the activity is "pushing" or "pulling." The third category of songs is referred to as fo'c'sle songs or forecastle songs. The fo'c'sle is the raised deck at the front of the ship where the crew retired off-watch. Here they could sing ballads and other tunes that didn't require the rhythm of the work songs.
http://www.contemplator.com/sea/
Barque: Sailing vessel with three or more masts: fore and aft rigged on aftermast, square rigged on all others.
Barkentine-3 Masted with Sq rigged on fore mast only
Brig- is a two-masted vessel with both masts square rigged. On the sternmost mast, the main mast, there is also a gaff sail
Brigantine- is a two-masted vessel fore mast being square rigged
Cutter- A sailboat with one mast and rigged a mainsail and two headsails. Also see sloop
Greek Galley Early sailing vessel 500bc
Ketch-Two-masted boats, the after mast shorter, but with a ketch the after mast is forward of the rudder post
Knockabout: - a type of schooner without a bowsprit.
Schooner: - sailing ships with at least 2 masts (foremast and mainmast) with the mainmast being the taller. Word derives from the term "schoon/scoon" meaning to move smoothly and quickly. ( a 3-masted vessel is called a "tern")
Topsail Schooner A schooner with a square rigged sail on forward mast
Windjammer - a non- nautical term describing square rigged sailing ships and large sailing merchantman, especially in the last day of commerical sailing. The orginal term windjamer was intented as insult from the crews of steamships. The return insult from the sailors was stinkpotter
http://ladywashington.org/glossary.html
http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/lavington/sta-anglia/glossary.htm
http://www.schoonerman.com/sailing_ships_a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_ship
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ship.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/barque.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/barquentine.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/brig.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/brigantine.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/baltimore.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/cutter.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ketch.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/schooner.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/sloop.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/snow.htm
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/yawl.htm
http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/shanties.php
http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/sea_songs.php
http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/pilot_verses.php
Getting started
Tall ships require big crews, perhaps 40 crew for the voyage and 8 to 10 permanent crew. These ships are too big for most ports, so they just sail on day and night. Perhaps they will anchor outside a port, then the crew are individually transported by motorised dinghy to the shore.
Typically, every one is placed into one of four watches. Each watch is led by a crew member with experience - your watch leader. This way everyone takes part in running the ships but all duties are tailored to individuals' abilities and many require teamwork enabling everyone to take part.
You'll find that you'll be on watch every 16 hours - it's kind of weird to get up at 2am and do 4 hours of sailing a tall ship in pitch darkness (unless the moon is out) before day break and breakfast. But it gives you a wonderful insight of the 24 operation of the ship - no turning on the motor and heading for harbour on a tall ship!
Although the traditional rig on tall ships includes some sails which can be worked from the decks with ropes, others have to be handled aloft.
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What is a tall ship?
This is a broad nostalgic term for any sailing vessel that provides sail training and participates in "tall ship" events such as races or sail-pasts. It includes both large traditionally rigged vessel and large modern yachts. Most tall ships events classify tall ships according to size and rig:
Class A - Square rigged vessels over 120' (36.6m) long as well as Fore and Aft rigged vessels over 160' (48.8m).
Class A, Division II Square rigged vessels of less than 120' (36.6m).
Class B Fore and Aft rigged vessels between 100' (30.5m) and 160' (48.8 ).
Class C Fore and Aft rigged vessels with a waterline length of at least 30' (9.14m).
For explanation and images of the different types of rigs, see the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic's Guide to Ship Rigs.
Ironically, despite its nostalgic associations, the term "tall ship", was almost never used in the golden age of sailing ships in the mid 1800s. It emerged in the twilight days of commercial sailing ships, in the 1890s, as a nostalgia arose over the gradual disappearance of large square-rigged vessels. The term was notably popularized by John Masefield (1878-1967, a former mariner who became poet laureate of England) in his poem Sea Fever, published in a book called Salt Water Ballads in 1902:
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and sky.
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
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