Wavecrawling random encounter table, from 1815:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hieroglyphic-journal-of-a-voyage-to-the-caribbean-1815/
Wavecrawling random encounter table, from 1815:
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Wavecrawling random encounter table, from 1815:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hieroglyphic-journal-of-a-voyage-to-the-caribbean-1815/
Tattered Remains of Tartary 
these guys look a lot like they’re going to be crucified:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_4_4bFyC6YICOArn7MtSZoPkEhRbZ3TjfEwSjGK7q05gPflU2_847Wa3MlyziYDWlZ2ExNbbpOsyK4j5dTRzRtR5WcYOBpy7Crk=s0
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Richard G – slaves me thinks
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Wavecrawling is a great term. When encountering another ship or ships, I suppose you also need to determine their direction of travel, distance when sighted (based on weather), and who has the weather gage.
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That last image in the bottom right corner looks a lot like the description my dad told me of a ceremony they did in the US navy when sailors crossed the equator (I think) for the first time. The guy with the trident is dressed up as Neptune. I wonder if the tradition goes back into the 18th c. (I wouldn’t be surprised if it did).
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You’re right, John Marron.
en.wikipedia.org – Line-crossing ceremony – Wikipedia
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John Marron as the wikipedia link states, “baptisms” that marked the crossing of various lines go back at least to the 17th century. The Dutch East India Company had special services (and brandewyn rations) at the exit of the English Channel, passing Cape Verde (ie entering the doldrums around the equator), passing Cape Roque in Brazil (exiting the doldrums), passing the Cape of Good Hope (rounding Africa) and the Sunda Strait (entering the Java Sea). They’d do a Sea Baptism for new sailors on passing the Scilly Isles (not named for this reason). Sea Baptism consisted of being dropped from the foreyard and then winched back on board by the rest of the crew.
Company financiers, who stayed on land, first tried to ban the practice in 1620, and then again regularly right through to 1795 when the Company folded.
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Casey G. that’s exactly what I’m doing in my rules!
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That makes me so happy, Richard G.
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hum de dum ships ships papists rocks ships rocks ships GIANT STAR CRAB DESCENDS AND DEMANDS COSPLAY
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Roger Giner-Sorolla that’s OSR!
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#22 has the ship disguised as a rock while sitting atop another rock. I imagine they’re also waiting for high tide.
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Joseph H. Vilas hahaha I am a master of disguise. Today I am a coastline.
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I understand N.C.’s Outer Banks used to be a master of disguise, masquerading as clear-sailing American littoral. Technology broke the magic the Outer Banks used to use to lure ships and sailors to their doom. I assume N.C.’s pirate population at their time were masters of that magic, or were at least able to recognize it and take advantage.
I just read the latest Neal Stephenson novel, co-authored with Nicole Galland:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_D.O.D.O.>
A premise is that magic used to exist, but technology started pinning down existence and happenstance in much the same way as opening Schrödinger’s box determined the fate of the residing cat. The semi-final straw was the photographing of a solar eclipse in 1851, getting the entire world on the same, non-magical page.
[I’m post-jacking again, Richard, but at least this time I’m post-jacking in a direction you’re often going yourself. 😉 ]
en.wikipedia.org – The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. – Wikipedia
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