The sails! The sails!
May. 23rd, 2007 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clarentineThis year marks the 400th anniversary of the British settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, and this week is the something less than 400th anniversary of the original settlement that became Richmond. As a result, renactments and historical exhibits are springing up like toadstools...the kind that redirect traffic, change road patterns, and litter the sidewalks with gawking tourists. In case you haven't guessed, avoiding tourists is not my favorite activity. I did my purgatory years in Orlando, thankyouverymuch.
On the up side of all of this, however, is the arrival on the scene of a veritable fleet of sailing ships. Beginning this past weekend and running through the Memorial Day weekend, Godspeed will be at Richmond's Intermediate Terminal. She'll be joined by the schooners Lady Maryland, Kalmar Nyckel, Pride of Baltimore, and Virginia, and all of them will be open to the public.
Which means, in a nutshell, that I'll be down at the Intermediate Terminal beginning Thursday afternoon to see Godspeed and Lady Maryland, and again Friday evening to see Kalmar Nyckel and the other two, camera in hand, absorbing details left and right. Godspeed, in particular, is supposed to have accurately depicted crew quarters, which is one element I really have not yet come across on the other period (or period re-creation) ships I've been aboard, and will go a long way toward making me seem less like a clueless idiot in writing about the various pirate ships' spaces below decks.
Wiki for Godspeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_(ship) (not much of an article, but it's the best I could find quickly)
Website for Kalmar Nyckel: http://www.kalmarnyckel.org/
Website for Lady Maryland: http://www.livingclassrooms.org/Facilities/LadyMD.html
Website for Pride of Baltimore: http://www.pride2.org/
Website for Virginia: http://schoonervirginia.org/
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In addition to researching the above websites, I spent some time yesterday looking to see how many vessels I could find that had carried the name Revenge. The first one that comes to mind, of course, is Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's last ship. There were sufficient others that I think I can use the name if I want to. Not sure I will, but it was something I was thinking about - primarily because I needed a working title for the book. So, for the moment, the pirate book is going by the title Satisfaction and Revenge.
I do so love a title that plays on several different levels.
On the up side of all of this, however, is the arrival on the scene of a veritable fleet of sailing ships. Beginning this past weekend and running through the Memorial Day weekend, Godspeed will be at Richmond's Intermediate Terminal. She'll be joined by the schooners Lady Maryland, Kalmar Nyckel, Pride of Baltimore, and Virginia, and all of them will be open to the public.
Which means, in a nutshell, that I'll be down at the Intermediate Terminal beginning Thursday afternoon to see Godspeed and Lady Maryland, and again Friday evening to see Kalmar Nyckel and the other two, camera in hand, absorbing details left and right. Godspeed, in particular, is supposed to have accurately depicted crew quarters, which is one element I really have not yet come across on the other period (or period re-creation) ships I've been aboard, and will go a long way toward making me seem less like a clueless idiot in writing about the various pirate ships' spaces below decks.
Wiki for Godspeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_(ship) (not much of an article, but it's the best I could find quickly)
Website for Kalmar Nyckel: http://www.kalmarnyckel.org/
Website for Lady Maryland: http://www.livingclassrooms.org/Facilities/LadyMD.html
Website for Pride of Baltimore: http://www.pride2.org/
Website for Virginia: http://schoonervirginia.org/
*******
In addition to researching the above websites, I spent some time yesterday looking to see how many vessels I could find that had carried the name Revenge. The first one that comes to mind, of course, is Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's last ship. There were sufficient others that I think I can use the name if I want to. Not sure I will, but it was something I was thinking about - primarily because I needed a working title for the book. So, for the moment, the pirate book is going by the title Satisfaction and Revenge.
I do so love a title that plays on several different levels.
