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Post by Black Hand on Jul 7, 2022 12:03:23 GMT -7
Oh, I can see you in a set of petticoat trousers. Neat back story and I love the use of tarred marline on the hat. I was a commercial fisherman. Haven’t found a good way to incorporate the sea into my 18th century Pennsylvania persona quite yet. The German thing I’m stuck on, y’a know? Germany has coastline - not much, but some... |
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Post by artificer on Jul 7, 2022 12:35:33 GMT -7
Warning, off topic ahead... Ryan, you might be interested in this. Years ago I was into sailing, made a trip to the marvelous Mystic Seaport Museum. On that trip I met an old salt long retired from the sea, selling example knot boards to make a little money. They were pretty impressive. I bought one and have enjoyed having it around for a long time. View AttachmentSpence That IS Impressive. Thanks for showing it. Gus |
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Post by artificer on Jul 7, 2022 12:37:44 GMT -7
Oh, I can see you in a set of petticoat trousers. Neat back story and I love the use of tarred marline on the hat. I was a commercial fisherman. Haven’t found a good way to incorporate the sea into my 18th century Pennsylvania persona quite yet. The German thing I’m stuck on, y’a know? Before the tavern was left to you and as a young man, you ran off for a while due the allure to the sea? Quite plausible to me. Gus |
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Post by spence on Jul 7, 2022 12:46:44 GMT -7
Black Hand said, "Germany has coastline - not much, but some..."
For what it's worth, I once knew a German who could swim.
Spence
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Post by RyanAK on Jul 7, 2022 12:54:19 GMT -7
Waylaid by a press gang, perhaps?
The merchant ships likely would have taken an able bodied boy aboard, but the fishing fleets were a different matter. Germanic peoples didn’t have the heritage to go at it from scratch, and the various inshore fisheries were protected in a significant way by the nationalities that initially established them. Colonial fishery history is sketchy at best, but by the early 19th century the picture begins to become clear.
This still goes on in a lot of New England and Mid Atlantic coastwise fisheries. Bad things would likely happen if I had a go at lobstering in Maine or oystering in the Chesapeake.
What would be possible for a Germanic boy was market waterfowling on Delaware Bay. Not quite ‘nautical’, but a neat history of watercraft and methods there.
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Post by Joe on Jul 7, 2022 13:08:19 GMT -7
Oh, I can see you in a set of petticoat trousers. Neat back story and I love the use of tarred marline on the hat. I was a commercial fisherman. Haven’t found a good way to incorporate the sea into my 18th century Pennsylvania persona quite yet. The German thing I’m stuck on, y’a know? Perhaps a shad merchant or other fish merchant. |
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Post by Black Hand on Jul 7, 2022 13:18:01 GMT -7
Cod?
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Post by spence on Jul 7, 2022 13:33:44 GMT -7
The Pennsylvania Gazette
June 8, 1749
Run away, on Tuesday last, from Swan Boon, of Darby township, Chester county, a servant man, named James Wickrey [aka RyanAK], this country born, about 28 years of age, of a sandy complexion, pock pitted, short hair, if not cut off, thin visage:....He went off in an old chestnut canoe, mended at one, if not both ends, and is supposed to be gone over the river Delaware, or on board some vessel as a sailor, having been formerly a privateering. Whoever takes up and secures said servant, so as his master may have him again, shall have forty shillings reward, and reasonable charges, paid by SWAN BOON.
N.B. All masters of vessels are forbid to harbour him at their peril.
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Post by artificer on Jul 8, 2022 5:42:43 GMT -7
I prefer Scrod, the plu perfect past participle, of course. Gus |
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Post by RyanAK on Jul 8, 2022 7:57:25 GMT -7
Cod was a New England fishery, but salted cod certainly would have been in Pennsylvania. The Delaware still has runs of shad, but not like what it was in the day. More better frontier tumpline methinks.  Not sure what to do with the other, almost finished, fancy one… |
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Post by RyanAK on Jul 8, 2022 8:22:18 GMT -7
This should work nicely.  |
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Post by RyanAK on Jul 9, 2022 7:05:59 GMT -7
I’ll finish the other strap into… something. But this simple one is going to be perfect and versatile.
Makes me wonder about other ‘primitive’ pack use. Especially rigid frames. I have to hinge gathered for a Roycraft-style frame… which is just three sticks and a length of rope. But the tumpline would allow a man to carry great burdens so maybe the frames were unnecessary.
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Post by spence on Jul 9, 2022 11:13:52 GMT -7
Buffalo Bird Woman, Maxi'diwiac:   Spence |
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Post by RyanAK on Jul 9, 2022 11:27:03 GMT -7
Makes y’a wonder about modern, high-tech packs with ‘suspension systems’, eh? ‘Roycraft’ frame. Based on ancient technology, but ‘perfected’ by a RCAF survival instructor.   How I smashed my ankle. I finally got a roundhouse kick on his snoot, and my bones snapped. Before I passed out from pain, and as the bear ran away, I had the strength to whisper… …”Roadhouse.”  |
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