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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. 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.

We don't, as a rule, do banner exchanges, either. Those banners you see on this page? They're pals. Our Web site, our rules.

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.

Disclaimer the second: The list o' links is gettin' long, an' the Webwench doesn't have time t'check 'em often, especially around Sept. 19. Some of 'em may no longer work. If ye find a broken link, let us know an' we'll try t'fix it or else remove it from the site.

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 content):

  • 123 Pirate - Two-man pirate band; their MySpace page includes songs and videos.
  • The Alaskan Pirate and His Salty Seamen
  • Alestorm - Scottish metal pirate band
  • 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."
  • Beans Gardner - "part musician, part showman, part sailor and pure entertain~arrr. He's made a life out of pirate lore, sailor's tales and songs of the islands..."
  • The Ben Gunn Society - "A music project dedicated to folk-rock, pirates and cheese"
  • The Bilge Pumps - a pirate music/comedy act from Texas
  • Blackbeard, the Musical - a new musical by Rob Gardner
  • 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.
  • Brine and Bastards - Punk rock and pirate swagger.
  • Captain Dribblesnot and the Pirates of the Green Bogie, a UK children's party performer who bills his act as "The funniest Pirate Show you will ever see"
  • "Captain Jack Sparrow" - Andrew Madonald bills himself as the UK's top Johnny Depp tribute performer, available for hire.
  • 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 (Alas, we're told that this great group has packed it in after 13 years. Their site remains up, however.)
  • 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!
  • Crofters Revenge - A rockin' Celtic pirate band from Regina, Saskatchewan
  • Cutthroat Shamrock - Myspace page for a "hillbilly pirate" band.
  • Dan Crow - Songs and comedy for kids and their kin, from a rapscallion whose birthday is Sept. 19!
  • Dead Men's Tales - A Danish pirate-rock band
  • Drew Man - An orchestral composer whose works "Calico Jack" and "Pirates Cove," available for free download, are part of a larger pirate suite-in the making.
  • Flogging Molly - An Irish-American folk-punk band with swagger.
  • Great Big Sea - Terrific Newfoundland-based band that fuses traditional music with a modern sensibility
  • Hogey Navvy - an acoustic, shanty-singing band whose repertoire expands to include the traditional music of Ireland, Scotland, England, and North America.
  • 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".
  • Lambchop - Not a pirate band at all, but this 5-17-member Nashville group has recorded a new song, "National Talk Like A Pirate Day," so they're OK by us.
  • The Last American Pirate - Purported to be a scholarly tribute to one Edward Owens, this blog was later revealed as a hoax perpetrated by some George Mason University students with the encouragement of their teacher. Now, that's pirattitude!
  • Loren Davidson - Billing himself as an escape artist and tropical troubador. Check out his Pirate Vacation song on YouTube.
  • 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"
  • Pillage, Plunder, & Party - A "A Pirate Adventure featuring Captain Jack and Toby the Cabin Girl", based in Easton, Pa. Entertainment for private, corporate and children's parties and other events.
  • 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 "
  • The Pirates Charles
  • 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
  • The Really Big Pirate Show is a new musical by Kellie Johnson and Michael Menger, currently in development with hopes of of getting backing for a Broadway production.
  • Renegade Rose - a band o' piratical Morris dancers (run away, run away!!!) from Portland, Ore.
  • Ribarnacle - A Rhode Island based band that sings chanteys, plays Celtic, forecastle songs, music from many ports around the world, featuring sailor/pirate Tim Reilly (Bones), a rigger and now interpreter at the Mystic Seaport.
  • 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."
  • The Salty Dogs - A maritime & pyrate band based out of the North East, Maryland area.
  • Salty Walt and the Rattlin' Ratlines - Maritime music from the San Francisco Bay area. Named "favorite sea chanty band" by the S.F. Chronicle.
  • Satan Dance Party - A folk/blues/pirate/punk/party dance band
  • The Scurvy Knaves, a pirate ska band out of New York
  • Scuurvy, a pirate metal band from Brisbane, Australia
  • Sforzando - an Australian pirate band
  • The Shadow Players - a professional stage combat troupe specializing in medieval, Rennaissance, science fiction - and pirate! - combat entertainment.
  • 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
  • There Be Pirates! - California's premiere pirate band, whose first album (Drink & the Devil) came out on TLAPD 2008, releases their second, "Pirates in the Desert," on Sept. 29, 2009.
  • Threepwood Pyrates Galley - An Italian acoustical band paying tribute to pirates, sea shanteys and Terry Pratchett
  • 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.
  • Vroudenspiel - A German pirate band
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Ile de Torture - A participant-written on-line "novel" of the high seas. (Requires registration to read or post).
  • The Long John Silver Trust, working to bring a statue of Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal pirate to Bristol
  • The Ohio Rennaissance Festival has its own pirate ship.
  • Pirate Press - A new magazine out of Glasgow, Scotland, making its publishing debut on Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008
  • The Pirate Brethren - re-enacting the Golden Age of Piracy
  • Pyrates of Providence - Pirate and Colonial Living History 1690-1730
  • 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

Web books:

Other Pirate lit'rature:

Pirate Comics (Web and otherwise)

We recommend: Diamond Comic Distributors, for searchin' out what's new in pirate-themed comics. Just type yer ZIP code into the Comic Shop Locator Service fer a list o' retailers near you.

Year'round Pirate comics

Strips and panels celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day

2009

2008 - First out o' the gate is OH-NO Comics, planning a full month of pirate panels, a new one every Monday in September..

  • Yarteries - a clever strip from the Perry Bible Fellowship Webcomic (not at all what you might imagine!)

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

  • Puzzle Pirates - on-line games community about, well, pirates
  • Sid Meiers' Pirates - Revival of a great game, for the PC and XBox
  • Tales of Monkey Island - If you remember the "Monkey Island" games with fondness, you'll love these new episodes from TellTale Games, developed by the same artists who worked on the Lucas Arts originals.

More pirate games

Pirate Festivals - a whole year o' pirate fun

(arranged chronologically, more or less)
See also: a comprehensive list of US Rennaissance Festivals, many of which include pirates

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. Tickets available from Orlando Fun Tickets.
  • The Pirates of Lough Neagh - Offering short cruises around Northern Ireland's Antrim Bay aboard two miniature pirate ships, the Black Pearl and Calypso, from Lough Shore Park. Every weekend, weather permitting.

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:

More gear & garb

Miscellany

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