The Black Pearl...does anyone know...

[dasNdanger]

Got a question...and since I'm new here, I don't know if this has been touched on before...so forgive me if it has...

Is anyone familiar with the REAL Black Pearl?? She's a brigantine that sails out of Connecticut... {although I'm not sure what she's doing now as her web site is not accessible at present...}

Anyway - the Pearl was owned by Barclay H. Warburton III, founder of ASTA, the American Sail Training Association. Here's a brief quote from the ASTA site:

http://tallships.sailtraining.org/

"The American Sail Training Association (ASTA) was founded in 1973 by the late Barclay Warburton, owner of the brigantine Black Pearl, as an affiliate of the Sail Training Association -- now the International Sail Training Association (ISTA) -- to coordinate and conduct sail training activities in American waters. Initially ASTA worked to coordinate races and gatherings of sail training ships around the United Sates."

My question is this: Does anyone know whether or not the makers of POTC knew of the real Pearl and her connection to ASTA, and whether they used her name on purpose...perhaps as a tribute to sailing ships in general??

das

[Coastie04]

Well, I don't know th' answers t' your questions, but I've been aboard that fine vessel. She's actually a hermaphrodite brig, not a brigantine. I've seen her frequently in the Great Salt Pond in Block Island. Of interesting note, there's also a bar in Newport, RI called the Black Pearl. Inside, it looks much like a ship. The aforementioned boat used to be tied up next to the pub, as they were built by the same man.

Coastie

[Lucky Penny Hawkings]

There is also an Asian restaraunt up in...I want to say Woodinville, WA with the Black Pearl moniker. I keep meaning to go there...and to the Lucky Penny restaraunt here in San Francisco. *snicker*

[TalesOfTheSevenSeas]

You might direct your question to Iron Bess, as she is our resident Disney expert. As a matter of fact, the writers work just down the hall from her. You might leave her a message, since she hasn't been here much of late and might miss your question.