DED
Double Entry Diary
| Pirate Diary | |
| Learning the Ropes- “Adam sent me to climb to the very top of the mainmast, for as well as helping him, I must share the work of selling the ship.” Pg15 | I liked the picture it reminded me of those ropes on playgrounds and ropes courses. It hard to climb those things on steady ground, I believe it would be harder on a ship that is moving. |
| A Great Stormed Endangered Us- Entire Passage page 48 and 49 | I wonder if this was a Hurricane. I know Hurricanes are huge storms in the Atlantic Ocean. I remember watching the Weather Channel during a hurricane and there was a lot of wind and rain and the waves were big. |
| We Hide our Cargo ( Cannon Diagram) page 36 and 37 | I guess it would take a long time to reload. This seems to be the same process as a musket. I wonder if the cloth is used the same as the musket so the ball does not roll around too much and flies straighter. There is also a picture in What if you met a pirate on page 19. |
| What If You Met a Pirate? | |
| Draft- how deep in water a vessel floats. Page 13 | I guess the closer to the coast, the smaller the draft of a boat needs to be. I wonder what the draft of QAR was. |
| Sparks was the vessel’s blacksmith. Page 16 | Why did they call him Sparks? I wonder if it is because of the sparks of the metal when he hits it with his hammer. I remember seeing a blacksmith in Williamsburg Va. |
| What about the plunder (Jean Lafitte would sell stuff tax free in New Orleans) | This picture reminds me a flea market. I wonder if he sold stuff tax free because people were tired of taxes that the British Government issued onto the colonies. |
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I hadn’t thought about the blacksmith’s name being Sparks until reading your DED. I wonder if you are correct and the metal did spark on the ship, how dangerous that would have been. I have also seen a blacksmith before and I believe I remember them working the metal over an open fire. I wonder how he did blacksmith work on the wooden ship.