Upon what sort of ship do you sail?

[The Scotsquatch]

Since I was on Submarines for 20 years, I imagine my ship as a very stylized and magically enhanced verion of the first submarine, the Turtle...lol!

Look it up!

But picture it a hundred times bigger, with a propeller shaft driven by pedals, pedalled by mighty warriors.  Warrior pirates, but more like privateers with allegience and a cause.

You couldn't go deep in the Turtle, but then, who needed to back then?  They didn't have sonar or radar or airplanes to detect you!

Just hover under the surface...men pedalling dilligently to spin the prop shaft...come up UNDER your victim's vessel...bore a hole into the hull, attach your charge of gunpowder with a timed fuse, and then pedal like hell out of there!   BOOM!!!!

Down she goes to Davy Jone's Locker!

And if you wanted to pillage it first?

Pedal in close under the surface and just wait until an hour before nightwatch is relieved by the morning watch...when watches are the most vulnerable to surprise.  Surface slowly, kissing the hull broadside...run up your rope ladders, silence the watch, board the ship, and take her without a shot!

Aye...a Submariner Pirate Ship...that IS the way to go!

I always fantasized when I was in the Navy of doing this to foreign whaling vessels...why not?...they would never know what hit them, and it would be great practice for the fire control and torpedo men...lol!

Kev

[The Scotsquatch]

Here be our vessel, Hellion, formerly HMS Hellion,  but we had a disagreement with the management


And, yes, we travel on the highways etc with full rigging up ( though it takes one hell of a lot of gas to do that)

Outstanding sir!

Of course for myself I would worry that the temptation to roll down the windows and fire a broadside at fellow drivers on cell phones would end my days of piracy.

AWESOME!!!  We saw your modified Astro Van at the CT Renfaire this year...you even stayed at the same hotel we did...lol!  VERY cool!  We have an Astro too, but different style of "conversion" van...lmao!

Kev

[Capt Robertsgrave Thighbiter]

Bushnell's little submersible always facisnated me too, especially when I was a kid.  Most folks don't realize how early the actualization of an even older dream for Man took place. 

Dolphins,eh? What boats?  THough not in the service, I've been on a few 688 class subs, we're a subcontractor  and I was lucky enough to receive invites. Amazing pieces of equipment.


Hijacking over.

I always pictured Hellion as a 12 gun brig,  shallow draft and not very weatherly but just the ticket for cutting out larger ships. Not armed particularly well, with 6 pounders, except for an iron 18 lb carronade mounted amidships on the larboard side. Its our last resort, but one shot between wind and water pretty much concludes all arguements.

[The Scotsquatch]

I was on the Hartford, the Philidelphia, the Memphis, and finally, the Hampton.  688s and 688Is, Los Angelos Class.  Great technology, mostly good times, no regrets...but I have a HELL of a lot more fun now making and selling catapults at Renfaire! 

Now we set sail in our Terra-bound submarine, Excalibur.  She is our fully self contained 27 foot 1977 Itasca motorhome that we live and travel in fulltime doing Renfaire...updated and modified, although a work in progress, she runs like a dream and all systems are perfectly functional!   



The Helm:

People ask us if our little vessle gets crowded with my wife and myself, our 2 German Shepherds, our Himilayan cat, and our Cayuga duck...to which I reply, "its a lot more room than living on a Sub!  Granted a Sub is a 120 feet long, but its crammed with 120 smelly sailors...lol!

Kev

[renren]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_RZTusUzM8

[Rani Zemirah]

The Liberty Belle - 84' Double Masted, Gaff Rigged Schooner

She's long and broad, low in the belly, and she'll lay on the wind like a lover... and when she's full and by with the bone in her teeth nothing built can catch her!


(yeah, she's real... and she's berthed in the Conch Republic... and I have sailed her, and lived aboard, as well)

[Lady Nicolette]

I sail on the Ship of Fools

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

I called my first ship the Flattery because it got me nowhere. 

[Lady Nicolette]

I called my first ship the Flattery because it got me nowhere. 

Love it!

[Welsh Wench]

Maybe you were using the wrong kind of fuel, Jack. 

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

When I looked at Jack's post, I thought he said the name of the ship was the Flatulence.

Then I read Wenchie's post:  "Maybe you were using the wrong kind of fuel, Jack."

And thought:  OMG


I think I need reading glasses.

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

Nah, the Flatulence just puttered around.  It was almost as if the Royal Navy could sniff us out anywhere! 

[Rani Zemirah]

Sounds like a... pungent tale, that one, perhaps worth writing down in the logs...?    

[Cloverpogue]

The Good Ship Lollipop~

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

A 2 masted Brig all of 12 foot long. 2 years in the doodlin' stage now.