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Bootstrap_Bill

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Anyone Been On Any Pirate Ships , Or So To Speak? :blah: ,
The Best Ship I've Been On , Has To Be The Victory In Portsmouth ,
It Was Great
 
Welcome to PA Bootstrap,I ain't been on a real un,just thought i'd be welcoming ye mate :blah:
 
Well not a pirate ship, but I've been on the Mayflower, at Plymouth Rock
 
I've never actually been on a sailing ship ....yet!

I did take a tour of the USS Alabama and the submarine USS Drum when I was a kid. I know, I know ...way to modern, but it was still pretty cool :blah:
 
There's a nice ship museum in San Francisco California that has some moored ships (different types, sailing AND motorized) you can actually walk around in. Was in one "tall ship" - I believe it was a coastal merchant, and termed a "Hen Frigate" (because the captain had his wife with him while at sea). The ship was nicely designed with the captain's cabin and mess looking particularly fancy with nice hardwood paneling & such.

I remember especially that the interior of the ship, while pretty in places, was quite cramped. The crew's bunks were small and even the hold seemed small. It was difficult to imagine going on a long sea voyage in such a vessel - maybe they didn't sail on the OCEAN so much as just in coastal waters.

I love going to this museum every time I go to San Francisco (it's by Fisherman's Wharf), but it's been a while and my memory may be somewhat flawed. Maybe Spaz has been to this and can elaborate.
 
I sailed for a weekend on a whale watching voyage where I was a crew member on a `3-masted` barquentine called the "leeuwin II".

My claim to fame on that voyage was being commended by the captain for puking up overboard while furling the sails (people were chickening out of climbing up the mast and I was sitting out on the yards swaying back and forwards for way too long xD:: )

We sailed alongside some humpback whales too, but I refrained from puking on them. :yes
 
xD:

On the same ship, but not the same voyage, an elderly guy lost his false teeth overboard doing the ol' technicolour yawn! :yes
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Mad_Jack`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mad_Jack)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Brings a whole new meaning to "heave to and drift", eh mate?[/quote]

Oh, that's ripe, Mad_Jack! xD:
 
Well, that be a matter of course...


I've seen the Mayflower, The Constitution, and a replica of the Santa Maria. I've also been on many ships, whose names are lost ta me.
 
I been on a fair share. More modern naval vessels - subs, aircraft carriers, destroyers, amphib assault ships, etc etc - than I kin remember due to my years in the navy.

As for the more traditional ships, I've toured both the Constitution and the Larinda (shortly before she went under <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ib012.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cry" border="0" alt="ib012.gif" /> ) I also crewed aboard the Denis Sullivan last summer, which be a 19th century schooner on Lake Michigan. She be a fine little vessel, but with no cannons aboard, it just din feel right.
 
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