May 2009 - continued

Ships Log: Friday May 15th, Saturday May 16th and Sunday May17th.
Friday: Crew arrived at NHRF site to set up. 12 x 12 Panther and 2 ezy ups were set up. Most of the things needed to set up the hostel were put in place. Black Powder tent also in place. Exhausting day for all.
Saturday: First day of faire. All weapons arrived and were placed in BP tent. The rest of set up finished and the crew got ready for opening. Cannon was being readyed for opening shot while the rest of use loaded small arms and headed to the frount gate. We did a ships raid with will Black Powder Volley. Turned a lot of heads. Crew then goes over to meet the queen and gets heckled by the sherriff. Of course crew heckles back. We tell the queen about our mission and head back to our encampment to ready for our demo.
First demo went well. Crew enjoyed firing their weapons and getting into their parts. Hostal tent full of food and plenty of space to sit and relax. Tazzy made her rum balls and I think they were quite popular. Alot of staggering after everyone ate those.
At second demo we must have had 3/4 of the paytons there. Crew ran with it and did an awesome job. As always.
After demo we headed over to the main field and tell the queen we have found the Highway Man Black Jock, Black Jock Strop. He turned out to be the sherriff. Our brutt squad had a great time ruffing up the sherriff. He did not expect us to be so enthusiastic.
Sunday: Much the same as Saturday except our last demo went the best of all. Hector decided to tell pirate jokes to the captain and the Sam joined in. The crowd really responded great. I think we will do that all the time. Adds alot to personality of the crew.
The capture of the sherriff was even funnier on this day. Got change completly to involved one of his minions trying to frame him. But we still shackled him and brought him cross the grounds to be trialed in England.
Break down went quick. When our crew works together they are one hell of a team!!! Everything packed up before 6:00. Crismon, Cherly, Phelan and Lord Charles headed to port o Hudson for some grub with the captain.
We do have the BEST crew in the Guilds. Huzzar!!!!







The Firing Line







Our next adventure is Silverkingdom Ren faire.

May 2009

Ships Log - Saturday May 2nd 2009
The crew got together for out Black powder Rehersal for NHRF at the faire site. About 3/4 of our mates showed. Safety was covered. All that needed to be taught to load and fire did. Very educational day for all.
When everyone was comfortable with the weapons we proceeded to do a full rehersal with everyone there so we could work out the bugs. Went quite well. Suggestions were made and implimeted. I feel quite comfortable that I can hand anyone a weapon and tell them they are on the line.
Our core shooters are - Phelan, Tazzy, Sam, Lord Charles, Lizzy, Hector the protector Greylocke and myself. There will always be extra postions open on the firing line and as powder monkey for any of our crew to take part. It was good to see everyone and everyone got reaquainted. Its was like we see each other everyday.
We did have a promotion on board. Crimson Pirate has stepped down as Quartermaster to resume the navagators position. Our new Quartermaster is now Lord Charles. Huzzar!!!
Our next adventure is NHRF.