The Pirates! Band of Misfits – Trailer in 1080p – YouTube.
The largest tall ship in the world, the Sedov, arrives in Gdynia, Poland as part of the Culture 2011 Tall Ships Regatta, which will include a race from Turku to Gdynia and officially opens today. The 122-meter Russian ship has whopping FOUR masts. I don’t even know the height. I’m not sure I want to.
Police say cannons were stolen from a bay area pirate ship.
http://www.abcactionnews.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=10783
Some clever plunderer has stolen the black powder cannons from the Ye Mystic Krewe, a custom-built ship used throughout the year and in the Gasparilla Parade in Clearwater, Florida.
Police said they were probably teenagers, but there’s $600 in gold doubloons for you if you turn them in and teach these young scallywags a lesson–don’t mess with pirates. Join them!
Tall Ship Manitou offers multi-day sailing experiences. The Manitou, operated by the Traverse Tall Ship Company, is a traditional topsail schooner, just like the one I sailed on. The price is around $700 for a four day trip, but if you have the doubloons, I recommend going to gaze at the stars or sip wine. Few real ships have overnight voyages open to people of all ages, and until you’ve gazed at the stars from under the mainmast.
Capital welcome for tall ship – Main Section – Yorkshir
I wonder how long they had to practice this.
Before you get all excited, to clarify, the dive team off the coast of Panama (funded by guess who), said they only thought they might have found a part of Capt. Henry Morgan’s ship, which supposedly sank in 1671 while defending Panama City against Spain while working as an English privateer.
The handsome young Welsh scion Henry Morgan, before he became the scallywag we all know and love.
They recovered a bunch of coal-encrusted boxes and chests, which probably (sigh) don’t contain treasure. Still, I think that’s worth raising a glass of rum to, don’t you?
If you’re craving a pirate fix (and let’s face it, if you’re living in Denver, you probably are) you can head to the Denver Museum of Natural Science, where the Real Pirates immersion exhibit tells the tale of the Whyda, the slave-ship-turned-pirate-ship, commanded by Capt. Sam Bellamy, that sank in 1717 off the coast of Cape Cod and is, to my understanding, the first pirate shipwreck ever discovered in North America.
What a cute crew! From L-R: Hendrick Quintor, John King, Capt. Sam Bellamy, John Julian
On display: treasure the Whydah was carrying from over 50 different plundered ships. You also get to meet a Real Life Pirate Princess and Sweet Polly Oliver, Joquette Devereaux, who grew up on Hispaniola, the daughter of a cartographer, and joined the Whydah crew dressed like a man.
Find out more at the official site above. But you have to make it in before August 21, when the traveling exhibit heads to my current neck of the woods, Minneapolis.
Princess of Pirates 