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GREAT LAKES PIRATES
October 2018
Timber Gray Wolf
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Elise W’nstrom Editor
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The full expression given in many books is “There’s the devil to pay and no pitch hot”. The ‘devil’ was the ship’s longest seam in the hull. Which was difficult to reach and needed a lot of tar to caulk, or make water tight. Caulking was done with ‘pay’ or pitch (a kind of tar). The verb ‘to pay’ means to smear or cover a seam with pitch or tar and is thought to have been derived from the French word ‘poier’ and ultimately from the Laten ‘picare’ meaning to smear with pitch. The task of “paying the devil” was one of the least popular tasts carried out on the ship and was detested by salors.
Captain Jameson von Greywolfe’s Rum Review - Foursquare Rum Distillery May ye anchor be tight, an ye cork be loose. May ye rum be spiced and ye compass stay true. It’d be Rumday nigh n time for the rum review. Tucked away in the southern countryside of the island of Barbados, sits on what once was a sugar plantation. Rum is made from a ferment of molasses and proprietary yeast cultures, at the Foursquare Rum Distillery. It is distilled in a triple column or combination pot/column stills on site. While they’re still is sugar cane growing on the estate most of the molasses is imported from Guyana and the yeast used universally for all the rums produced is imported from south Africa. R.L. Seale produces more that just the Foursquare Spiced and
Doorly’s rum, in fact I was surprised to find that I’ve had one of those produced there before. The Real McCoy, Mahiki, Old Brigand, Bristol, and Rum 66 are but a handful of what they produce at the Foursquare estate. All of their products are all natural and never have any additions like cane syrup or flavorings added before being bottled and sealed for sale. What you taste is all made in the barrels. A golden amber in color spirit rests in me large snifter. I’m letting it breath for a few before going into the nose and taste. While I wait I swirled this spiced rum around to let the crests form. From the crest thick
legs hang before being released and retreating back to the spirit below. I get the scents of anise, clove, and allspice with notes of orange and citrus at first take. With second n third I noticed the aromas of faint vanilla and honey. The aromas are not really intense like you would expect in a commercially sold spiced rum sold in every package store across the world. The taste is not what I would expect in a spiced rum but from the nose it doesn’t surprise me. Subtle clove, cinnamon, and allspice with a light hint of vanilla in the background. Though it’s not a sweet rum I still get the taste of raw honey that rides with each sip to the throat. There it turns to a warm pepper that subsides quickly. In the aftertaste I got the taste of light smoke with the likes of chicory or mesquite. It is said to enjoy this one neat but I found that if mixed in a Mojito it is very good. I’m convinced that a premium spirit such as this will bring your cocktails up to a level that will knock your patrons socks off. I recommend mixing with cola, soda and premuim ginger ale/beer for that next level taste. So that’s it for this week mates. Due to circumstances of health this last week I can’t promise a review next week on something new, but bear with me I’ll return the following week with a new one. So me hearties stay safe, stay alert, stay alive, and drink responsibly. Plunder well and may your course stay true. Until the next time, down the hatch.
Captain Jameson von Greywolfe
Beckie Miller Thibeault Interviewed by: Timber Gray Wolf
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How long have you been into the pirate life and what made you want to be a pirate?
I discovered the existence of Pirates around 2009. As I got to know some of them, I was drawn to the good things they were doing for the less fortunate & Community
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Does your pirate prosoma have a backstory?
I picked Rum-Becca McHeight... as I am 5’8
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What do you like the most about going to the events and what is one of your favorite so far?
I would have to say the time I have spent with LTP of Grand Cayman. Me favorite part is interacting with the children.
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What is some the inspiration behind your garb?
Well now... we do with what we have
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From the great list of out there, what is one of your favorite pirate movies or books?
Black beard
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What is your day job outside of pirating?
I be a Medical Record Coordinator...
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Is there anything you would like to share with our readers?
To be a Pirate is to give of yourself to others... helping them get into the fantasy for a little while.
Mark your Calendar, and get ready for the Event season to kick off for 2017. As the year goes on, we shall add more events and update any dates that may change.
2018
October
4th - Vikings Come Home XXVII
• Whiting Park 5820 Lake Shore Rd, Boyne City, Michigan 49712
6th~7th - Ohio Renaissance Festival
• 10am to 7pm • 10542 EAST STATE ROUTE 73, WAYNESVILLE, OH 45068
• Inclueds: 13th~14th, 20nd~21rd, 27th~28th (final weekend) 19th~21rd - Rosenvolk German Medieval Festival • Fri: 9am to 10pm, Sat: 10am to 10pm, Sun: 10am to 5pm • 18th Street Park, Ferdinand, Indiana 47543
2019
January February
22nd~24th - Official 4th Annual Michigan Nordic Fire Festival • 620 W Shepherd St, Charlotte, MI 48813
We are looking for events If you know of any close to you or some of your favorites, please contact us. If you are hosting a gathering and want to get the word out. You can stand out from the event listings by having a full page ad. (please contact us for information on full page promotions)
ANDREA JONES
Meet and book signing at the Grand Rapids Comic-Con, Friday to Sunday.
Golden Hind started off as an English galleon, best known for her time for privateer vessel and circumnavigation of the globe starting in 1577 till 1580. Captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally named the Pelican, but was renamed by Captain Drake mid-voyage in 1578, in honour of his patron; Sir Christopher Hatton, whose crest was a golden ‘hind’ (a female red deer). Hatton was one of the principal sponsors of Drake’s world voyage. There is still a to scale replica of the Golden Hind, still sailable reconstruction containing original pieces of the galleon exists in London, on the south bank of the Thames.
queen’s support was quite advantageous for that time; Drake had official approval to benefit himself and the queen, as well as to cause the maximum damage to the Spaniards. This eventually culminated in the Anglo–Spanish War. Before setting sail, Drake met the queen face-to-face for the first time ever and these word her royal orders to him, “We would gladly be revenged on the King of Spain for divers injuries that we have received.” The explicit objective was to “find out places meet to have traffic.” Drake, however, acted as a privateer, with unofficial support from Queen Elizabeth, this way he could act more rash in the face of the Spanish.
Queen Elizabeth I had partly sponsored Sir Francis Drake to be the leader of an expedition intended to pass around South America through the Strait of Magellan and to explore the coast that lay beyond. The
The Golden Hind is described as a “mid-16thcentury warship during the transition from the carrack to the galleon,” and displaced about 100 tons, armed with only 22 canons, and could reach 8 knots (roughly 9mph). Drake set sail in
December 1577 with five small ships, manned by 164 men, and reached the Brazilian coast in early 1578. On the 1st of March 1579, now in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Ecuador, Golden Hind challenged and captured the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de la Concepción. This galleon had the largest treasure captured to that date: over 360,000 pesos (equivalent to around $567mill in 2018). The six tons of treasure took six days to transship and included 26 tons of silver, half a ton of gold, porcelain, jewellery, coins, and jewels. On 26th of September 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship into Plymouth Harbour with 56 of the original crew of 80 left aboard. The ship was unloaded at Saltash Castle nearby, where the treasure was unloading and supervised by the Queen’s guards.
Over half of the proceeds went to the Queen and country and were used to pay off the annual debt in its entirety. Queen Elizabeth I herself went aboard Golden Hind, which was then permanently at Deptford on the Thames Estuary, where she had requested it be placed on permanent display as the first ‘museum ship’. There, she shrewdly asked the French ambassador to bestow a knighthood on Drake. Her share of the treasure came to at least £160,000: “enough to pay off her entire government debt and still have £40,000 left over to invest in a new trading company for the Levant. Her return, and that of other investors, was more than £47 for every £1 invested, or 4,700%.” After Drake’s circumnavigation, Golden Hind was maintained for public exhibition at the dockyard at Deptford, London. The Ship was sent with the rest of the English Armada,
also known as the Counter Armada, to Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1589, during the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604). It was led by Sir Francis Drake as admiral and Sir John Norreys as general, and failed to destroy of the Spanish Armada. The campaign resulted in the deadlocking of the English expeditionary force, and its withdrawal with heavy losses. The victory of the Spanish marked renewed Philip II’s power through the next decade over the seas. In 1668, the keeper of the stores at Deptford, John Davies of Camberwell, had the best remaining timber of Golden Hind made into a chair which was presented to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, where it remains (with a replica in the Great Hall, Buckland Abbey, Devon, Drake’s home and now maintained by the National Trust). A table, known as the cupboard, in the Middle Temple Hall, London is also reputed to have been made from the wood of Golden Hind. Upon the cupboard is placed the roll of members of Middle Temple, which new members sign when they are called to the Bar. The ship’s lantern was hung in the vestibule of Middle Temple Hall, but was destroyed during the Second World War.
Timber Gray Wolf
Pelf: (pelf) noun: 1. Stolen goods; booty, spoil. 2. Money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonorable way.
Used in a Sentence:
“Patrocl the pirate’s primary pastime is pilfering paltry pelf from passing pinnacess.”
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2019’s Mermaid Megafest meetings have started and planning for next years event and activities have kicked off. Look forward to up here at Great Lakes Pirates Magazine and on the Mermaid MegaFest Facebook page.