Ahoy Ye Lubbers!
The Portland Pirate Festival – Sept 18th & 19th, 2010
Tickets be available online at Brown Paper Tickets.
They also be at local Portland Retailers.
Blimey! Portland had the world record with 1,670!!!!
But Avast! we lost it to those Bilge-sucking Brits… no… the Germans… wait… the Californians?
The Brixham Pirate Festival in England took the record back with 1,744 pirates, but the Germans stole the record for “The Largest Gathering of Pirates” with a count of 1,878. Alas, our brethren at the Northern CA Pirate Festival gathered 2,646 cut-throats in June, but before they could blink an eye-patch (or get their certificate) the free-booters in Hastings, England claimed the prize with 6,166… so that is the number we need to beat.
We’ll need 7,000 of ye Blaggard Dogs to re-take the record and hold it or else it’ll be Davy Jones’ locker with ye!
Sun. Sept 19th Begad! we be havin’ our record back or we’ll be a dancin’ with Jack Ketch!
With a stream-lined system for collecting signatures the gathering will last no more than a 1/2 hour and we’ll be treated to the raw energy of me bucko’s the River City Pipe & Drum Band.
Stumptown Beard & Mustache Competition
Sat Sept 18th Stumptown Stash & Beard Collective (SSBC) and PDX YAR host the 1st annual contest for the most fantastic and artfull facial hair in Portland. This is a Beard Team USA sanctioned event with prizes in four categories: Best Beard, Best Mustache, Best Facial Sculpt and Free-style “most creative fake facial hair” (for those who can’t grow it on there own). There will be a panel of celebrity judges and cash prizes for them who thinks they have what it takes.
Register for the Beard & Mustache Competition at www.stumptownsbc.com
Portland Pirate Festival website.
Video from the 2008 Portland Pirate Festival
Be sure and practice your Pirate with this handy online Pirate Dictionary.
Be here the map Matey. Godspeed!
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Portland Pirate Festival misses the world record but tops the U.S. mark
The festival did break the U.S. record, though — a record it set only last year — with just more than 1,700 pirates as counted by two officials with Guinness World Records.