Mark your Calender for 2019’s Events
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October 2019
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Contents 04) Dont
Leave Your Dept Unpaid
06) Captain Jameson von Greywolfe’s Rum Review 08) Captain's Cauldron 12) Facts around Black Sails 18) 2019 Events 22) The Gentlemen pirate captured 22) Grandiloquent Word of the Month
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The French have an old saying, perhaps obsolete, but worthy of mention, used on sailing ships of the past centuries. When they met several days of upwind unfavorable conditions, they would ask, “Vent debout, vent debout sans fin, qui n’a pas payé sa catin?” (“Upwind, upwind endless, who did not paid his whore?”) The unfavorable wind was considered a punishment for sailors who had left port without having paid the bill at the brothel.
Ayyye mates n maidens, I be hare to tell the ohbout a rum from Africa, Starr Ultra Superior Light African Rum from Mauritius. A little tiny island is off the east coast of South Africa formed from few blasts of a shield volcano in the Indian Ocean. While the island itself hasn't been active in the last 700 years the soul and the spirit certainly is. They live by a French saying Joie De Vivre which means roughly the joy or desire of life, living every minute and enjoying that moment. The rum comes from that spirit too. The cane is grown in the volcanic soils under the shadow of one pyramid volcano just south of Port Louis on the east side of the island. That pyramid
volcano is what the bottle is modeled after, and is evident in the photo on their site. From this sugar cane it is cut, harvested, and processed on site at the estate called Modine, now owned by International Distillers Mauritius Ltee or Limited. The processing of the cane results in a byproduct we all know n love, Molasses from this molasses it is fermented in giant oak open top vats with naturally occurring and strain specific yeast. From there they use state of the art stainless steel copper lined column stills distilling it into what will be rum. Aged in ex bourbon French oak barrels and charcoal filtered to remove the color into the crystal clear rum that's
in that tall red bottle. They do have one other bottle in the same shape but mottled brown in color it is aged up to 7 years but that's another review. Starr was created in 2005 under the African Development Initiative Of The African Unions fair work fair labor act. One note that they are the only distillery that uses molasses on Mauritius. All others make Agricultural Rhum from the fresh squeezed cane juice. Their Web Site states that they do not add any other sugars or additives once the rum is distilled. The color is for certain crystal clear, so clear in fact, that you can read right through the glass and not have any color appearance through it. When I swirled the rum in my snifter coating the inside of the glass with a very thin sheen that falls away quickly to about halfway then forming fast running thin legs.
of light clean citrus cinnamon cardamom and ginger first appear but later I was able to taste cherry and nutmeg after adding ice chips. Very refreshing rum and to my taste likes. Just a tiny bit of bittersweet after taste leaves you wanting more. So the website says that their best drink is over ice with a squeeze of lemon, I'm sure lime would be great as well. My drinks tonight featured are over a single ice skull, and one of my favorites 1.5 oz over ice gems with a splash of golden ginger ale and limeade. Very refreshing and satisfying. With me new ship underway I've got some plundering to, and make some gold n booty for me purse. With that I'll be able to find new rums and present them here for ye reviewing pleasures. So until the next time, stay safe, stay alert, stay alive and drink responsibly mates n maidens. Plunder all ye can, give nuthin back. Joie De Vivre me pirates, down the hatch.
The nose of the rum does have a strong astringency once poured but the Pirate King dot com site does state to let it breath for a few minutes before drinking and for those who truly appreciate rum to nose it before the sipping. So I let it breath and whadaya know it didn't have that strong alcohol smell it did when I first poured it. Once that lifted I was able to get hints of Vanilla and Citrus and clean aromas. My first sip allowed me to experience a warmth that starts in the mid palette and follows to the throat with a crispness on the tip of the tongue. Notes Captain Jameson von Greywolfe
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Captain Flint’s Ship, The Walrus, Was built on Set
Before Captain Flint could strut aboard, the production crew was hard at work building his ship, The Walrus. The beautiful ship took nearly five months three hundred carpenters to be brought to life.
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Jack Rack was the first to use the Jolly Roger
You might remember Jack Rackham’s obsession with getting the flag on his ship just right. This was based in reality, actually, and he was the first pirate ever to have the skull and crossbones flag on his ship.
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Zach McGowan is the only Americans on Set (Charles Vane)
Originally they only wanted to cast Brits, but his agent happened to know some of the producers. Lucky for him!
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Toby Stephen is No Stanger to Swords
Before he was Captain Flint, crossing cutlasses with the likes of Charles Vane. Toby was challenging James Bond in a Duel to the death as Gustav Graves in “Die Another Day”
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The Wreck of the Urca De Lima is Historical
A massive hurricane laid ruin to a group of Spanish ships transporting gold off the Florida coast back in 1715. One of these was called Urca de Lima.
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The show was renewed Twice before either season premiered
Say what you will about the show, it is quite a feat for a television production to be renewed twice without showing a single episode. After the received at a special Com-Con screening, Starz immediately renewed Black Sails for a second season.
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Almost everyone is going to DIE
Black sails takes place in 1715, at the height of what we know best as the Golden Age of Piracy. With a few years’ time, every historical based figure in the story will pass.
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Nassau is Doomed
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Captain Flint’s Backstory plot twist was a Originally meant for Season 1
Most of the fanbase was shocked when halfway through season two, the show dropped the unexpected twist that revealed Flint’s romantic involvement with Miranda’s husband, Thomas.
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The Uniqueness sound of the soundtrack was accomplished using a Hurdy Gurdy
According to history, three years after the show is set the British Government will take back Nassau by appointing governor Woodes Rogers to take command of the island.
Mark your Calendar, and get ready for the Event season to kick off for 2019. As the year goes on, we shall add more events and update any dates that may change.
2019 October 5th~6th - 24rd Annual Grand Valley Renaissance Festival • 10am to 5pm • 1 Campus Dr, Allendale, Michigan 49401
5th~6th - Ohio Renaissance Festival
• 10am to 7pm • 10542 EAST STATE ROUTE 73, WAYNESVILLE, OH 45068
• Inclueds: 12th~13th, 19th~20th, 26th~27th(final weekend) 19th~20th - Gathering at Five Medals • Sat: 9am to 5pm, Sun: 9am to 4pm • River Preserve County Park - Benton Spillway, Benton, Indiana, Goshen, Indiana 46526
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2020’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.
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On this 27th of September 1718, the pirate Captain Stede Bonnet is captured at the Battle of Cape Fear River. In the waning days of the Golden Age of Piracy, the Imperial might of the British Empire had finally begun to crack down on pirate activity in the Caribbean, hunting down and ending the careers of a great number of infamous pirate captains. Among these included the captains of the Pirate Republic of Nassau, such as Edward “Blackbeard” Teach/Thatch, Henry Avery/Every, Charles Vane, John “Calico Jack” Rackham, and more. This also included Stede Bonnet, otherwise known as “The Gentleman Pirate” for his affluent life as a Barbadian sugar planter before setting out on a life of Piracy. Bonnet had a rather unsuccessful pirate career when compared to his counterparts, at one point being captured by Blackbeard and subsequently serving by his side to learn the trade. Afterwards Bonnet would set off on his own with moderate success, however this success would attract the attention of local authorities. At the end of summer 1718, Bonnet had managed himself a small pirate
flotilla, in which Bonnet piloted the flagship the “Royal James,” a sloopof-war that was previously a part of Blackbeard’s fleet. Bonnet also had under his command two more sloops, the “Francis” and “Fortune,” as well as a collection of raiding canoes. At this point the Royal James was in need of repair and requested a safe spot to be careened for maintenance. The hurricane season was close at hand, presenting even greater danger to a sitting fleet like Bonnet’s, so he decided to anchor his flotilla in the Cape Fear estuary, where the surrounding islands and sandbars would protect his ships from rough waters. Unfortunately, word of Bonnet’s presence reached the governor of South Carolina, who
then dispatched Captain William Rhett to pursue and capture Bonnet. Rhett, a Colonel in the Colonial Militia, mustered a crew and outfitted two sloops of his own and sailed to Cape Fear. When Rhett and his sloops arrived at Cape Fear the night of September 26th, Bonnet initially assumed them to be merchant vessels and sent his 3 canoes to take Rhett’s ships as prizes, only to find out their true intent. The next morning, Bonnet and his crew charged Rhett in an attempt to escape out to sea. It almost worked, as Rhett’s ships, the “Henry” and one other, both ran aground on sandbars, rendering them immobile. However, while maneuvering to avoid friendly fire Bonnet’s “Royal James” also ran aground. For almost six hours the “Royal James” and “Henry” exchanged fire until the tide came in, freeing Rhett’s two vessels, but leaving Bonnet’s stuck. Rhett boarded the pirates and after a short engagement
Bonnet and his crew surrendered. In the end, Rhett and his militia lost 12 men, where Bonnet also lost twelve and the remainder taken prisoner. While this would not be the ultimate end for Bonnet, it did signal the beginning of the end. After a failed escape attempt later that year, Bonnet would be tried for two accounts of piracy and hanged in Charleston, South Carolina in November.
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Goster: (GOS-tur) verb: 1. To behave boldly or boisterously
Used in a Sentence:
“Emily Post would certainly not approve of the gostering at the dinner table.�
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