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San Francisco's Pirate Ball mid March, 2009 San Francisco, California The Pirate Ball is an evening of music, raffles, and piratical fun for all, starting at 8PM. We have local nautical musician Skip Henderson and The Starboard Watch as well as local indie rock group The Plasterkatz to entertain our guests. We encourage our guest to come dressed in their pirate gear, so they can enter the best dressed pirate and rum wench contests. The ticket price is $30 in advance through our web site or $40 at the door. Our silent auction has had some of the greatest donations; over $2,000 worth of merchandise has already been donated with more to come. 100% of the proceeds go to Childrens Hospital and Research Center Oakland. Visit the web site for more details. Vendors or Volunteers please email: walkaplank@yahoo.com or call 707-773-4589 and speak to Craig.

March 20 & 21, 2010 | Military Through the Ages Jamestown Settlement, VIRGINIA Re-enactment groups depicting soldiers and military encounters throughout history join forces with modern-day veterans and active units to demonstrate camp life, tactics and weaponry. Event features Saturday children’s parade and Sunday military pass-in-review.

Yo Ho A Pirates Life Weekend at the Arizona Renaissance Festival early March, 2009 Apache Junction, Arizona Search for treasures, sing songs of the sea and enter the Pirate Costume Contest! Swashbuckling acts, a pirate store, and a New World area. A smart-talking skeleton named Ded Bob. The Pirate Shantyman & Bonnie Lass (high energy pirate music & comedy). Tortuga Twins (we recommend the R-rated show). Arizona Renaissance Festival runs February 7th thru March 29th (weekends & holidays) Call: (520) 463-2600

LORE Weekend of Pirate & Renaissance Workshops LORE - Loyal Order of Reenactment Enthusiasts February 28th thru March 1st, 2009 Corona, California L.O.R.E. (Loyal Order of Reenactment Enthusiasts) provides a track of pirate workshops along side it's renaissance classes for it's workshop weekend. Classes are open to all. Class schedule is not announced yet. In the past No Quarter Given has helped to arrange for classes in the following subjects: Pirate History & Culture, Pirate Persona Development, Pirate Costuming, Beginning Blackpowder, Advanced Blackpowder, Dockside Tavern Songs, Swordplay, Intro to Cannons, Historic Rogues Meet at the Tavern, Games Pirates Played, Setting up the Pirate Camp, Beginning Drumming: Eastern Styles & Celtic Bodhran (bring your own drum if possible), Pirate Dance -- Jigs and Hornpipes, Navigation in the Age of Discovery & Colonization, Pirate Stereotypes: True or False, Rum 101 (History and Rum Tasting), Pyrate Basics, History of Firearms: Matchlocks to Flintlocks, All You Wanted to Know about Ropes and Knots But Were Afraid to Ask, etc. Attendees may select to attend either Renaissance or Pirate classes, or some of both. After classes on Saturday, join in the Participants Swap Meet (bring items to barter and trade). Attendance fee includes dinner on Saturday evening, followed by a show. On site camping on Fri. and Sat. nights included. Info: The Crossroads Group, P.O.B. 1959 , Corona, CA, 92878-1959, (951) 735-0101

The Sack of St. Augustine Captain Searle's Raid of 1668 late February/early March, 2009 St. Augustine, Florida In 1668 Capt. Robert Searle and his privateers sailed from Jamaica to loot the silver ingots held in the royal coffers at St. Augustine. Under cover of night, they slipped into the harbor and attacked the sleeping town. We are always looking for new recruits to portray townspeople, garrison soldiers, Native Americans, and buccaneers! Our focus is on an accurate historical impression, using correct materials, styles, and equipment. You need not be a historian, actor, or military enthusiast to participate. ,This Event is an historical re-enactment. Historically accurate garb and gear are required to participate in this Event. ,English buccaneers and Spanish soldados - Musketeers are needed! Matchlock, snaphaunce, doglock, and miquelet muskets will be accepted. Native American re-enactors, doing Timucua, Apalachee, or Guale, are especially welcome. If interested, please contact us at info@searlesbuccaneers.org. or call our toll-free number at 877-FLA-HIST (877-352-4478).

8th Annual The Rising of the Seven Sea Cups Privateer Feast late February, 2009 Conference Center, Cherry Hill Park College Park, Maryland Beware -- in 2007 tickets sold out in under three minutes: College Park, Maryland. 6:30 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. at the Conference Center at Cherry Hill Park in College Park, Maryland. Tickets will go on sale at 4:00 p.m. (EST) on Monday, January 14, 2008 * Join Master of Ceremonies Dinty the Moore for a stage full of entertainment including the Ship's Company Chanteymen, Cat and the Fiddle Morris, Letter of Marque, and of course those scurvy sea-dogs, The Pyrates Royale! * Scores of wonderful new items in our infamous raffle for charity. * Completely new menu! Look for full ingredient listings coming soon! * Due to changes in local liquor laws, the Feast is now BYOB: if you want to drink alcohol, you'll need to bring it yourself. If you do, please drink responsibly. * Breast Cancer Awareness table in the raffle room to see the ways your generosity makes a difference. teamwenchtix@yahoo.com

Chicago Maritime Festival late February, 2009 Chicago, Illinois This indoor festival held in Chicago's "off season", is a wonderful way to meet maritime minded (or nautically curious) folks from all around the region and across the sea. Seminars, musical performances, nautical activities. Of special interest to pirates is the presentation, "Piratecore: Sea Chanties in the 21st Century" with Gerard Heidgerken (aka Bilgemunky) host of Bilgemunky Radio. Gerard will cover the evolution and current state of this contemporary spin on the traditional sea shanty. The exact time for "Pirate-Core: Sea Shanties in the 21st Century" is not yet scheduled. Tickets to attend the festival are $10 (free for kids 12 and under) and may be purchased online or at the door. The festival is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Estrella War mid February (Presidents Day Weekend), 2009 Canyon Moon Ranch, Florence, Arizona This is an SCA war, but many a pirate crew will come and take advantage of the disruptions caused by war (look for the No Quarter Given booth).

Petaluma Pirate Banquet early February, 2009 Petaluma, California Petaluma, CALIFORNIA. A long journey of turmoil from many distant countries to the new world, the captain has finally found land, California as we know it. What can one expect from this mangy band of pirates? Captain Wolf and his crew have a secret plan to steal the booty and cargo of Finbar Devine’s and trade it overseas. What better time to take action under the distraction of a festive banquet? Join the crew in an adventure of sea shanties, mischief, and the capture of the booty. Mind your back, for there will be Masterminds Ivan (1st mate), Chainshot (shipmaster), Zoya (quartermaster), Butcher Bill (the cook), and Swabby behind the deceit, the danger, the joyous entertainment, and the spirit of Piracy in the 1800’s. A time that once was perilous and is once again breathtaking. Costumes encouraged. 6-9 PM. Location: Finbar Devine's, 145 Kentucky St, Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 762-9800. Cost Price: $40, Children 12 and under $20 Includes dinner, entertainment, tax and tip for food. Drinks are extra. Contact person for more info -- Call Laura at (707) 778-2100, ext 18 for information http://www.cinnadinner.org scroll down for Pirate Banquet or email: laurasunday@comcast.net

7th Annual Pirates At The Pier January 23rd, 2010 Cocoa Beach, Florida Join us for the 7th Annual Pirates at the Pier party, January 23, 2010, at the Cocoa Beach Pier – Brevard County’s biggest theme party of the year! Costume contest, door prizes and games. At Marlin's Sports Bar on the Cocoa Beach Pier. Our ship’s chanties will be led by Brevard’s best all around party band RockIT. Pyrates of the Coast will once again be bringing their unique and authentic “piratical entertainment” to our Pirates at the Pier event. For More Info Contact Gary at: Mad Hatter Promotions 321-543-1346, Gary@MadHatterPromotions.com . Buy tickets (With dinner $15 in advance, $18 at the door; general admission without dinner $8 in advance, $10 at door) through the event website. Prices go up after January 15, 2010. Special discounts on lodging.

The Pillage of the Village Weekend mid February, 2009 The Pillage of the Village Weekend at the 17th Annual Florida Renaissance Festival Quiet Waters Park, Deerfield Bay, Florida The festival runs weekends from early Feb. thru mid March, but the second weekend is when the Pyrates plan to invade. Featuring musical mayhem with Pyrate’s Royale, The Conquistador, Special Appearance by Pirates Dinner Adventure, and Pirate Costume Contest to win tickets to Pirates Dinner Adventure (includes one hotel night!) in Orlando.

As you may have noticed, this forum is in the process of being re-organized. Please bear with us as we make changes, shuffle threads and build the event calendar.

As much as I hate to press advertising on everyone, as part of my agreement with Bloody - its how I’m paying for the Pub.

Thanks Jenny. . . all I need is a nother project. This rocks! I'm going to have to make myself a fake one.

The only place I've found problems are at Renaissance type Faires. But even then you can get around it sometimes if you're working for a vender or are part of a demonstration. Most Pirate Events that I've been to both East and West Coast have been fairly liberal on the subject of carrying weapons around. Now at a regular Cons - SiFi and Fantasy Conventions, I'm not sure what the policies are beyond Katanas and Barbarian broad swords. . .

Brat!

Can I have an air mattress in mine with a little bell? - Just in case I'm not dead all the way.

Um sorry about that. The search feature doesn't actually work yet. I've got to get under the hood, manually run a few scripts and build the database for it. It's a little involved, but on my todo list. . .

Cool! Very nice - thank you.

Seems like you would be weakening the wood an awful lot by drilling all those holes - I can just see them acting as a sort of a perforation . I only recently got a copy of "The Art of Knotting and Splicing" - Though I highly recommend it, I wouldn't know what to use. But maybe MorganTyre can school us with a demonstration picture or diagram. ? .

I surfed Southern California as a kid an can't say that I ever saw a green flash on the West Coast - except maybe once. It was a very weird day, I was surfing the San Onofre nuclear power plant. As I dropped in on a wave, I noticed something big bolt towards me from underneath. Scared - I quickly jumped up on my board. As I looked back I could see the sun through the wave, it was like glass and a wonderful coke bottle green. What I thought was a shark - was actually a dolphin, now riding the wave with me. Anyway after paddling back to shore, I watched the pod of dolphin as the sun was going down. For just a moment I thought I saw a green flash. I looked around and the few people on the beach, the friends I was with didn't seem to notice. I was pretty ignorant that such things happened at the time and wrote it off as something I imagined. But I can say that I have seen them on the East Coast, specifically during PiP in Key West. Last year I saw several when I was out in the water on the Wolf.

Actually Hurricane, I think the saying is something more like, "If voting did anything, they would make it illegal." But I think that complaint was referring to the Electoral College not voting at large. Well people will complain anyway, but I agree - you don't have room to talk or at least your complaints aren't going to hold much water if you didn't bother to participate. Earlier in the week I could have motored up to Los Angeles - they had an early voters station, but it was little far to drive. About an hour + each way depending on the parking lot, I mean traffic. So yesterday I went in about 11:ish. All the booths were full, but no real line to speak of. I'm probably one of the few people that scribbled my vote on a paper ballot instead of using a machine. . . . kind of funny since my background is software and hardware.

Considering everything is made out of rope, I'm sure there are all several self-tightening knots that could have done the trick of securing the brush once it was wound around. Though it would be cool to know what was commonly used. Thanks Jim for the diagram - it's great.

Doh!