..."to the vagrant gypsy's life"... WHERED THE SUMMER GO?

Filetted fish-

do you guys say feel-ey or fill-it? For filet?

I've got to know this.

(I like the idea of using a frypan as a steak template btw )

The CAnajuns say
Fill' let

The Merkins say

Fill- Lay'

I was aked to post these photos from



which herewith is done :wink:

(Click on the pics to enlarge them)

Thank you, Walter, for posting the pics.
I hope you like them.

j j t McTag.

Ah, Walter. As usual you captured the very essence of the tall ship.

Hey, McTag! Was that you in the grey seaman's sweater?

Took the boat out on the rais today so they can remount and realign the skeg. Im gonna wait till fall to have the bottom painted. I just want to be able to steer the damn thing without fighting the drag to port. Its really screwing up the dynamics and not to mention fuel economy. Well rent a "Bayliner" for a week or or so. Im not a big Bayliner fan but the boatyard had one 28 footer that can go most of the places our boat can. Theyre only gonna charge me 100$ as week and fuel and an insurance rider cost as an additional insured.
No radar though, so we cant go off on long adventures into the fog.
So The Iapetus takes a break and now we drive "Wet Dream"

McT, I like the different aspect that you have in your shots. Who took the pix of the two in the yardarms?

I took the pictures. I was standing in the mizzen crosstrees.
It is difficult to take pictures (in fact it it forbidden on CR) while standing on the footrope on the yardarms, so I went aloft with the camera during a quiet time when we were not handling sails.
Of the two norwegian youths in the picture, if you notice, one is more confident than the other, who has taken a very firm grip of the yard. The one on the right (outer, starboard) is showing the other "the ropes".

Seems it had been a wonderful trip!

It was a lifetime ambition for me, and I don't know why I waited so long. Circumstances, I suppose, and inertia.

Cherbourg was great, for the Tall Ships Festival, and I was able to spend a whole day there, in brilliant weather, before the ship sailed out. Including overnight stop, spent on board in the harbour. There were more "old gaffers" and traditional craft than you could shake a stick at- paradise for me.

All-in-all, a wonderful trip. I feel very lucky.

Seamen, everywhere. Mind you don't step in in tho..........

STill, whats yer point?
McT , any more pictures?

He is being a bit naughty. Still, many a true word spoken in jest, there were quite a few 16-25-year-olds among the mixed crews....

I have got more pictures, Farmerman, but they are in my "other" computer at work. My home computer is too rickety to entrust with my photo-handling program. I'll try to send more next week if you would like.

I thought this was going to be straightforward....but no

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Hey! Partial success

yaaar. WE be certainly glad ye cast them mutineers adrift. Dirty scum.

Not noticed by McTag, someone shot a photo when he left Cherbourg:

It was pleasant and delightful on a midsummer's morn,
When the green fields and the meadows, were cover'd with corn,
And the blackbirds and thrushes sang on every green tree,
And the larks, they sang melodious at the dawning of the day.

As a sailor and his true love were a-walking one day,
Said the sailor to his true love "I am bound far away,
I am bound for the Indies where the loud cannons roar,
And I'm leaving my Nancy, she's the one that I adore".

Then a ring from her finger she instantly drew,
Saying "Take this, dear Walter, that your heart may prove true",
And whilst he was embracing her, the tears from her eyes fell,
Saying "May I go along with you?"
"O, no, my love, farewell".

O now, my dearest Nancy, I no longer can stay,
For their topsails are hoisted, and the anchor's aweigh,
And the good ship lies a-waiting for to sail on the tide,
And if ever I return again I'll make you my bride".

Whoa, I never saw this thread. Musta been quite the trip (bookmark)

McTag, your shanty made me recall a question that I never had properly answered. In the age of sail (sans kicker) how did they cast off and sail out?
I know that , say from the 1860s they used paddle wheel tugs but, some pics I have seen of ships packed in a harbor, they would lie abeam and would each use each's deck as a walkway, so when ships put out to sea, would they be rowed out. I cant see weighing anchor and upping the topsails and taking off. Theyd be bashing around. I know that some of the larger ports like Boston, ships could moor offshore and row in and out using shallops for offloading but still, taking off would be a touchy act with only sails. Maybe set knows. YO SET!

I'm sure you've gotten my PM by now.

While not a completely reliable image, this should give your an idea of what i meant, this is San Francisco, 1846:



Ships unload at the wharf, but moor in the harbor or the shores of the roadstead.

Another image of not entirely accurate representation, nevertheless, note the many small craft plying the waters between the ships, in New Amsterdam, c. 1650:



This image is actually quite reliable, and gives an idea of the types of small craft used to unload vessels, delivery chandlery, deliver and return pilots, and ferry crew and passengers to and from ships in the harbor, once again this New York, sadly, the image is of the slave market in the late 17th century: