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Thar be pirate sites galore on the World Wide Web, and we're not about t'try t'list 'em all. Here's a smatterin' o' sites that have captured our fancy. If ye've got another (and would like to swap links), give our webwench a holler. Note, though, that we're interested in linkin' to sites about pirates and pirattitude, and not generic link exchanges.

Allow us to repeat: We link only to genuine pirate sites. We aren't interested in link exchanges designed only to build search engine rankings. To be honest, we don't need it (and neither do you, if you learn how to legitimately optimize your site for searchability). So don't bother. No matter how good your auto parts/computer sales/kitchen furniture site is, we aren't going to link to it unless it's about pirates. Stop e-mailing us already.

Disclaimer: Some of the sites below contain content that may make yer eyes cross, yer ears bleed or yer hair stand on end. By including 'em in this list, the Pirate Guys aren't endorsing their taste, their politics, their music, their products - or their literacy.

First things first:

Our close personal friend and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Dave Barry

By popular demand o' the young folks, we've set up pages on some o' them fancy, newfangled social networkin' sites. Mostly, though, they just point back here - the Pirate Guys are self-avowed Geezers O' Th' Sea, an' don't have time t'be hangin' out on line. But since ye insist, here they be:

and now, those Pirate links:

Kindred Souls: Our kind o' Pirates

"Official" Talk Like A Pirate sites (and members o' the team): Which pretty much means they e-mailed us and asked "can we be the official ...?" We're pushovers, so we say yes a lot. Don't let it go to yer heads.

Other kindred souls (alphabetical, more or less)

Pirates of the Caribbean sites

Translators, name generators & quizzes

Translators

Pirate Performers

We recommend:

More pirate acts (or acts with significant pirate songs):

  • 123 Pirate - Two-man pirate band; their MySpace page includes songs and videos.
  • The Alaskan Pirate and His Salty Seamen
  • American Wake - Irish-inspired Southern California rock band with a new pirate-themed CD, "Tell No Tales"
  • The Ancient Mariners fife, drum and chanteymen, outa Connecticut.
  • The Arrogant Worms - their song "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" lands them on our list, even though they're not primarily piratical
  • Aurora Avenue - MySpace page for a British band and its song "Privateers"
  • Avast Reee - Pirate band whose MySpace page includes the memorable "What Shall We Do With the Dirty Emo"...
  • Battleheart - a band of vicious scallywags from Perth, Scotland, who make epic music "about pirates, and quests, and metal. But mostly pirates."
  • The Ben Gunn Society - "A music project dedicated to folk-rock, pirates and cheese"
  • The Bilge Pumps - a pirate music/comedy act from Texas
  • The Blaggards - They bill themselves as "stout Irish rock," but their rendition of "What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor" shows true pirattitude
  • Bombs and Beating Hearts - A pirate-punk band based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Now that's pirattitude!
  • The Bumboo Crew - Great 2000 album of pirate songs.
  • Bounding Main - Singing sea shanties and songs of the sea from Door County, Wisconsin to Joliet, Ill.
  • Bourbon Knights - Southern Illinois' Finest Pirate Swing Ensemble
  • The Brigands - Cap'n Robert Thighbiter, lead vocals,
    fiddle, acoustic guitar and concertina; First Mate
    Bloody Billy Marley, voclas, electric tea-chest
    bass and acoustic bass fiddle; and Crewman Butch
    Cannon, vocals, drums and percussion and mandola.
  • Captain Jim is Magic - A real peg-legged pirate who offers entertainment and inspiration for people of all ages
  • Captain Ross: Pirate Songs for the 31st Century
  • Caribbean Pirate Michael Bean - Recommended by Dee Ann Bell
  • While not precisely a pirate band, the Welsh metal band Casket has a song called Metal Pirate (warning: MySpace page; music plays on loading).
  • Coconut Bob Karwin, who's just released a CD of children's songs, "Parakeet Island," including "Roger the Pirate"
  • The Corsairs
  • Crew of the Rose, of Portland, Ore.- part of the Brotherhood of Oceanic Mercenaries. Still more Faire pirates!
  • The Crimson Pirates - a New York song-and-hijinks group. Follow their "music" link for mp3s of popular pirate tunes!
  • Cutthroat Shamrock - Myspace page for a "hillbilly pirate" band.
  • Great Big Sea - Terrific Newfoundland-based band that fuses traditional music with a modern sensibility
  • Jahmbi - Heavy-metal band with a pirate bent (MySpace page)
  • The Jolly Garogers - Austin (Tex.) premiere pirate band
  • The Jolly Rogers - a pirate-theme music and improv group from the the land-locked Midwest.
  • The Jolly Rogues of Tewksbury, Mass.
  • Jollyship the Whiz-bang - Pyrate puppet rock-opera consortium. A band ... and then some.
  • The Jugtown Pirates of Lake Champlain
  • Lady Unluck - All-grrrl New York punk band whose most-requested hit is called "Pirates' Life".
  • Madge Conacher - Scots singer-songwriter whose repertoire includes "sea-shanties and sea-faring songs recounting old sea legends, myths, stories and 'warnings'"
  • Make It Better Later - MySpace page for an alternative/ska/punk band from Yorkshire who occasionally sing about pirates
  • Michael Longcor - not a pirate, per se, but a fine musician with a healthy pirattitude. Check out his CD, Boarding Party, which is chock full o' pirates!
  • Molly Lyons - Actress with a one-woman, A Most Notorious Woman, based on the life of pirate Granuaile (Grace) O'Malley
  • My Lady's Cutlass - a two-woman band "merging the essence of Celtic, French, and English folk music, featuring flutes, drums, psaltery, dulcimers, English bagpipes, and the resounding growl of the didgeridoo"
  • The Pirate Comedy Show
  • A Pirate's Life For Me - "Real Pirate Radio" from 365.com. "100% songs by pirates, songs about pirates or songs about the things pirates love "
  • Pirates of the Coast - Pacific Northwest Faire performers
  • Pirates for Hire- Providing costumed pirates for events in South Florida
  • Pirates From Dubai - Myspace page
  • Pirates Mutiny - "a unique blend of human circus and pantomime featuring world-class acrobats, dancers and specialty acts from around the world." Based on a show that's been wowing crowds in Spain for 22 years. Coming to Miami, Florida, in December 2006.
  • Potty the Pirate - Bills himself as "England's Leading Pirate Performer," and who are we to argue. Bright contemporary magic shows with puppets, balloons, and full of piratical adventures.
  • The Pyrates Royale - An East Coast of long standin', specializing in traditional music o' th'sea
  • The Reading Buccaneers drum and bugle corps
  • Renegade Rose - a band o' piratical Morris dancers (run away, run away!!!) from Portland, Ore.
  • Rillian and The Doxie Chicks - a West Coast Pyrate and Irish band
  • Running Wild, a popular German metal band with pirate personas
  • Rust Monster - "A little Blackbeard, a little technology, a little madness, and voila; a modern day slambangin' pirate fest."
  • Salty Walt and the Rattlin' Ratlines - Maritime music from the San Francisco Bay area. Named "favorite sea chanty band" by the S.F. Chronicle.
  • The Scurvy Knaves, a pirate ska band out of New York
  • Sforzando - an Australian pirate band
  • Spinnaker - "Deep sea blues and salty folk" out of Portland, Ore.
  • Sunken Chest - "Portland's best pirate rock band"
  • Terrible Tom Callinan , performing pirate songs and stories for all ages
  • Thryce Wycked Wenches - Performin' the West Coast Faire circuit
  • The Toucan Pirates - Sea-farin' lads of Seattle who play traditional Irish music on concertina, bouzouki, banjo, pennywhistle, and steel drums.
  • The Vomits - MySpace page featuring their song "I Wanna Be a Pirate"
  • The Whaleshark, Eric Pietsch - "the only true pirate left in Lahaina Harbor, according to his publicist-spouse, The Pirate Girl.
  • White Bay Freddie - A modern-day Caribbean Pirate who spends his time sailin' and divin' and playin' tunes, splitting his time between the islands and his home in Tennessee."

Pirate songs

By popular demand (praise be to google!), pirate tunes, traditional and not-so-traditional. Warnin': Pirates are a rough-hewn bunch, an' some o' these be on the R-rated side.

People who (unlike us) take their piracy seriously

Re-enactors and other serious students of piracy

  • The Pyracy Pub - message board for pirate re-enactors
  • No Quarter Given - Pirate re-enactors' zine
  • Pirates - a new magazine aimed at the pirate re-enactor crowd
  • Belladonna Pirates - Medieval pirate re-enactors from Pensacola, Fla.
  • The Black Rose - Pirate re-enactor group based in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
  • Blackbeard's Crew - Virginia-based living history group dedicated to seafaring life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
  • The Castillian Fleet - Oregon-based pirate re-enactors through the SCA, organizers of the annual Pirate Gathering
  • Enterprize - Melbourne, Australia -basedtall ship. They sponsor occasional pirate-themed events
  • Ile de Torture - A participant-written on-line "novel" of the high seas. (Requires registration to read or post).
  • The Ohio Rennaissance Festival has its own pirate ship.
  • Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen - Performed by Leslie Rith-Najarian of the Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education's living history re-enactment group.
  • The Pirate Brethren - re-enacting the Golden Age of Piracy
  • Rifle, Loot & Salvage Co. - Not-fer-profit Pyrate living history group based in Portland Oregon. Faires, encampments, merry miscreants, black powder, shanty singing.
  • Society for Piratical Anachronism - the Golden Age of Piracy lives on
  • Tales of the Seven Seas - Pirate re-enactors for hire - and their frequent home berth, The Royaliste, docked in San Francisco Bay.
  • Valhalla's Pirates - Captain Charles Black & crew,a re-enactment group plundering Ocean and Monmouth counties, New Jersey
  • The Way of the Pirates - Portal to "basic introduction and much specific information about pirates' history, legends and fiction."
  • Ye Olde Book o' Seadogs - Originally put together by Rossz Vámos-Wentworth for pirate Faire/re-enactor groups, containing "nearly all the historical and technical information the 16th century English seafaring character needs to create and embellish a proper seadog."
  • Ye Pyrate Brotherhood - Theatrical re-enactors based outa Long Island, NY

Real Pirates and their history

We recommend: Pirates & Privateers, Cindy Vallar's terrific on-line review of pirates and maritime history. Ol' Chumbucket calls her "an enormously helpful resource."

Pirate books

Books for kids:

Books for teens and adults

Pirate Comics (Web and otherwise)

Strips and panels celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day

2007

2006

2005

2003 and 2004

Pirate art, video and animations

We recommend:

Other art, videos & animations

Pirate Stuff for Kids

Lots of the links on this page, like the site as a whole, have a decidedly adult bent. Here are the kid-safe ones. See our Junior Pirates page for other piratical resources fer the young and those who teach them

We recommend:

  • How to Build a Cardboard Pirate Ship - Instructions for using cardboard refrigerator boxes to build a pirate ship big enough to play in! Team Pirate thinks this is pretty doggoned cool.

Other great stuff for kids:

Pirate Fun & Games

On-line game sites in a pirate theme are proliferatin' to the point where they deserve their own category. If ye want to play pirate, check 'em out!

We recommend

More pirate games

  • Adventure Quest - Popular on-line game site celebrates TLAPD every September by putting players aboard Captain Rhubarb's pirate ship and given' 'em a special Quiz Challenge. If ye win, a prize awaits. If ye lose, well, it's time to walk the plank, matey!!
  • Arrrrrr! - Sink your friends and boost some booty with 10 different downloadable multi-player pirate games from Mind Control Games.
  • Battlefield Pirates - on-line pirate-themed role-playing game
  • Buccaneer: The Pursuit of Infamy - a single and multiplayer game where players strive to become the most infamous of all pirate captains. Due for release in September 2006, just in time for Talk Like a Pirate Day!
  • Burnt is Clean - live pirate RPG events in the UK
  • Dark Tides - Pirate role-playing game on MSN Groups
  • Death of a Pirate - live-action pirate-themed murder mystery/party game
  • Dogs of the Seas - a pirate MMPORG
  • Evil Stevie's Pirate Game - A work in progress (for years) from Steve Jackson, the master of role-playing and strategy games
  • Gather yer mateys and stage yer own Pirate Murder Mystery, from Lucky Knight Murder Mysteries
  • Monkey Island Scumm Bar - Forums, hints, downloads and other stuff related to the popular game.
  • Murder Mystery Dinners -Offering interactive mystery parties in the UK and Europe, including one with a pirate theme
  • Pirate Doll-Maker - Drag and drop to create yer customized digital pirate doll
  • Pirate The World - on-line pirate adventure game. Win real prizes
  • Pirates - a free flash game from Crazy Monkey Games
  • Pirates of the Burning Sea - A splendid MMORPG of adventure on the high seas.
  • Pirates of the Spanish Main - A constructable RPG from WizKids
  • Pirate's Booty - a puzzle game
  • Plunder - "a big game in a little box" from Laughing Pan Productions
  • Quest Experiences - Pirate-themed parties and treasure hunts
  • Rule the Seas - Free online pirate-themed game where you can do just about whatever you want.
  • Scallywag Tag - a Cincinnati, Ohio lazer tag outfit with a pirate theme!
  • Sea Rats - " the most excitin' pirate board game this side o' the Ivory Coast."
  • Seven Seas - Fire broadsides, sink ships and dodge sea serpents in this cleverl little flash game from PopCap Games.
  • Shiver My Timber - a pirate role-playing game, featuring pirate quizzes, translators - and even a printable pirate paper doll!
  • Treasure Island, from Burleygames.com. Take on the role of a daring pirate captain, landing ships at secret anchorages on Treasure Island, before venturing inland in search of buried treasure. The double-sided board allows you to choose between a 45-minute or 90-minute playing time.
  • Voyage Century - Pirate-themed on-line RPG
  • We Is Privateers - A finer lot o' scurvy sea-dogs ye'll never find than this gang o' LRP gamers.
  • World of Pirates, an on-line Pirate game based in Germany.
  • Yarr! An Expedition - A nifty little Flash game "100 percent inspired by Talk Like A Pirate Day"
  • ZePirates.com - A free, French simulation game featuring pirate games, treasure hunts, battles, etc.

Pirate Festivals - a whole year o' pirate fun

Pirate expeditions and experiences

  • The good ship Jolly Pirates, sailin' the treacherous charter seas off Aruba, and havin' way too much fun doin' it.
  • Lafitte's Landing - a pirate-themed Haunted House Adventure in Wylie, Texas. Check out their photo gallery!
  • Photo Workshop on Okracoke Island - home port of Blackbeard. Lodging at Blackbeard's Lounge, workshops with one of his descendants. May 3-6, 2007.
  • Pirate Adventures on the Chesapeake - Join a merry band of pirates on our mighty ship Sea Gypsy for swashbuckling family outings, birthday parties, field trips, and exciting adventures.
  • PirateHaus Inn - A pirate-themed hostel in St. Augustine, Fla, the oldest city in the US.
  • Pirate Expeditions - Pirate cruises, parties and educational field trips on Virginia's Long Bay.
  • Pirate's Dinner Adventures - " a dinner show attraction that puts you and your family right in the middle of all of the swashbuckling action." Orlando, Fla. and Buena Park, Calif.

Pirate gear & garb

O'course, we hope ye'll take a look at our own Pirate Booty first, but if ye be in the market for more accoutrements for Talk Like A Pirate Day, try one o' these fine purveyors:

We recommend:

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