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[GB1]

good morning

 

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[Blak bart]

Morning everyone....

 

[GB1]

morning Bart

 

[Blak bart]

Well we've lost crew boys....tom disappeared from his watch overboard......rook hit with grapeshot by Costa la guardia.....then simon and WD are sick with the yellow fever. Well boys were down to a skeleton crew !! Hope you dont stay gone to long simon....say hello once in a while buddy !!

 

[Blak bart]

Morning GB !!

 

[GB1]

time for pre cal. i hate it

 

[Blak bart]

Man its blowing down here.....I had to strip all the canvas off the boat or lose it to the wind. Little tropical system forming right next to us. Not quite over with hurricane season yet !!

 

[RustyRelics]

time for pre cal. i hate it

Geez, man. I thought Geometry was bad...I'll keep it for now...

 

[GB1]

geometry was bad too...had to suffer for year

 

[RustyRelics]

Well we've lost crew boys....tom disappeared from his watch overboard......rook hit with grapeshot by Costa la guardia.....then simon and WD are sick with the yellow fever. Well boys were down to a skeleton crew !! Hope you dont stay gone to long simon....say hello once in a while buddy !!

Rook is still on "vacation" I thought someone said he was released. Tom is visiting the wharf with one of those fake mustaches...

 

[Blak bart]

time for pre cal. i hate it

Are you talking about calculus ? GB ? That's where I bailed with the math....I hated calculus !!

 

[RustyRelics]

geometry was bad too...had to suffer for year

I'm doing the classical Greek geometry this year. It's not at all my favorite, but it isn't terrible. Last year when I was doing Algebra with a fast talking woman for a teacher, I just wanted to walk out in front of a car every day.

 

[RustyRelics]

Have you seen anything like this, Bart? 3 1/2 inches in diameter just about.

 

[Blak bart]

Rook is still on "vacation" I thought someone said he was released. Tom is visiting the wharf with one of those fake mustaches...

Haaa ha good one rusty I can see him with his stache spending all his pieces of eight on the ladies.

 

[Blak bart]

Most of the iron shot gets eaten away but I have a few pieces like that.....is that canister shot ??

 

[GB1]

I'm doing the classical Greek geometry this year. It's not at all my favorite, but it isn't terrible. Last year when I was doing Algebra with a fast talking woman for a teacher, I just wanted to walk out in front of a car every day.

i'm doing teaching textbooks and the guy doing it gets really excited when teaching he gets on my nerves

 

[Blak bart]

3 1/2 that's pretty big for grape or cannister ?

 

[RustyRelics]

Most of the iron shot gets eaten away but I have a few pieces like that.....is that canister shot ??

I really don't know what it is. It's so fricken heavy, I find it hard to imagine lifting a bunch of shot like that.

It's solid iron, about 3 1/2 inches in diameter, and has the two casting sprues on top, and two very small ones on the side. I only found one picture that looked like it, and it said it was Spanish, 1500s-1600s. I just don't know what to think about it though.

My grandfather is the one who acquired it. He said it was a War of 1812 cannonball. I doubt that because British and American cannon balls of that time were perfectly round. However older ones may have been imperfect. I just don't know.

 

[RustyRelics]

3 1/2 that's pretty big for grape or cannister ?

Grapeshot gets to be about 2 1/4 - 2 1/2 inches around, though bigger variations exist at least in the Civil War period. Way to big for canister.

 

[RustyRelics]

i'm doing teaching textbooks and the guy doing it gets really excited when teaching he gets on my nerves

My chemistry teacher is exactly the same way. He get's all fired up about Ions and electrons, and me and the kids in his class are like..."why?"