Need some pirates for morning TV show

[King's Pyrate]

Jacksonville's NBc station, channel 12 Will be doing a special interview of us pirates at Hurricane Patty's in St. Augustine tomorrow morning (July7th) on their morning show, from 5 -7 am. Most of our pirates will be working so if you are in this part of Florida, and want to wear your garb on TV....give me a call (904)824-1453 or email joe@josephlosteen.com

Yours in Pyracy

Joe

[Rummy3]

I do hope it went well for you!

[King's Pyrate]

I do hope it went well for you!

Thank You Ma'am...promises to be a long but prosperous day...do TV from 5-7 then go to work till noon then back to Hurricane Patty's for our pirate meeting/diner at 4pm then off to the POTC showing at 7:15...all in costume..Won’t have time to change into street clothes for work.....lol a pirate in an aircraft factory.....now there's something you don't see every day...lol

[King's Pyrate]

Here is out POTC Photos from Hurricane Patty's....We had lots of fun and even made the front page of the local newspaper

Pirate fans salute new movie

By MARCIA LANE | More by this reporter | marcia.lane@staugustinerecord.com | Posted: Saturday, July 8, 2006 ; Updated: 6:47 AM on Saturday, July 8, 2006

Pirate Captain Jack Sparrow is back and it turns out he has no lack of fans in the St. Augustine area.

From a 5-year-old to captains and wenches considerably older, fans gathered in full pirate regalia at Hurricane Patty's at Oyster Creek Marina on Friday to celebrate the opening of the latest movie in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.

Then, they headed over to the Ponce de Leon Mall to watch the rousing action in the Johnny Depp pirate film.

The restaurant's decor includes a couple of full-size pirate figures climbing up ship's ropes, making it a perfect locale for a pirate celebration.

The pirate behind the local celebration is writer Joseph O'Steen whose daylight job has him working with aircraft at Northrup-Grumman.

At night and on weekends, he retires to his cabin to get in the mood to write his Nathan Beauchamp sea adventures.

He's written two books in his series on a Napoleonic-era British naval officer.

These days, he's also pursuing the idea of writing a pirate story with St. Augustine locales.

"Everybody wants to be a bad boy or pretend to be a bad boy. It's good, safe fun," O'Steen said of the pirate craze and phase. O'Steen organized the get-together in about two weeks, putting out posters and contacting members of his Promoting Outstanding Writers! group.

"I've been getting calls from strangers asking if they could come. I said sure," he said.

A poster was how Chale Kelley and his parents, Donna and Dave Kelley, heard about the gathering. The family is from Jacksonville but has a condo at the beach here.

Chale, 11, wore a black-and-white pirate scarf, leather waistcoat, pirate shirt and buccaneer boots. It's the same costume he used for Halloween.

He was nearly shanghaied by a disreputable captain known as "Bad Dog" and his wench portrayed by Scott and Mia Brewer, re-enactors who have the pirate look, accent and mind set down pat.

Bad Dog, elegant in a frock coat and pirate hat, explained they had lost their ship, but he knew he had parked it "somewhere near the water.""We need a new cabin boy. He's perfect. We're taking him," Mia Brewer, dressed in the fashion of an 18th-century wench, said in a Cockney accent.

Chale looked like it might be a tempting offer. However, he wanted to head for the movie. "It's really cool and Johnny Depp is really funny," he said.

Over at a corner table, Taylor Scott, 5, sat in a red frock coat, his black pirate hat on the table between he and his parents, Stephen and Lesley Scott of Palm Coast.

Taylor lifted up a black velvet pouch attached to his belt.

"It's got pirate gold, real pirate gold. And jewels," he said.

About two dozen people came dressed in varying degrees of pirate fancy and the number was growing as time for the movie neared.

"We're into fun," Mark Fontana of Palm Coast said.

"And we like to dress up," added Jean Fontana, who said for Capt. Jack's next movie, she'd have a really special costume ready.

"They don't have all this fun stuff to do in Maine," said the Fontana's friend John MacDowall, who recently moved to the area from Maine.

Asked about the crowd of would-be pirates, Corban Rutherford of Hurricane Patty's explained, "This is not our first pirate party. What else are people going to dress up for, for Halloween?"