Pirates of Whitsunday

Wave your hooks in the air Saturday September 17, 2011

2011-09-12T13:02:00.000-07:00

ITLaPDiAB Saturday September 17, 2011
Everyone likes to talk like a pirate so in a town like Airlie you can also dress up like a pirate and have some fun. The Pirates of the Whitsundays are the polite pirates who use their manners and say please and thank you, and ensure that visitors always come first.
Be at Magnums on Saturday afternoon from about 3 for more pirate good times!

How to talk like a Pirate

2010-09-17T17:05:00.000-07:00

Here be some hints

And a pirate rap song

Airlie Beach for ITLaPDiAB

2010-09-17T15:00:00.000-07:00

Today in Airlie we will get together after siesta at about 3 pm on the picnic tables at Magnums. Yarr!

At Keswick Island the entire island will become a pirate island for the day.

Aargh Cap’n Dan,
Keswick Island has 14 permanent residents and we love being involved in ‘Talk like a Pirate Day’. With the Jolly Rodger flying high from our flag pole and the continuous recital of pirate jokes we all have far too much good fun – aargh!
Keep up your good work. Cheers, Brian & Lyn Kinderman
Keswick Island Guesthouse, www.keswickislandguesthouse.com.au

You can be a pirate anywhere and wave yer hook in the air!

Brit pirates smash world record

2010-08-26T04:02:00.000-07:00

UK Hastings pirates smash world record Guinness Records crew say

The pirates gathered in Hastings UK and then descended onto the beach demanding action.

Over six thousand pirates dressed as buccaneers, seadogs and wenches smashed the world record for having the largest number of pirates in the same place.

In fact, 6,166 pirates,including some clog dancering pirates from as far away as Holland, took part in the record-breaking meet on Hastings beach in East Sussex.

The previous record was set in Germany on 4 July, where a mere crew of 1,800 pirates assembled.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day in Airlie Beach, Australia, founder Cap'n Dan Van Blarcom says "that be a ship load of pirates, Yarr!"

The Guinness World Record team was in Hastings to verify the result.

Organisers said a 40-strong nude clog-dancing pirate troupe arrived from the Netherlands to take part in the attempt.

'Smuggler colours' groups left Aussie Pirates hesitant to make Budgie Smuggler jokes.

A group from Seaman Staines, Surrey, also swelled the numbers with two coach loads of rum swilling cut-throats.

Six Sussex bonfire societies - whose members are usually seen dressed in their "smuggler colours" with stripy tops and caps - also joined the pirate crowd.

The bonfire societies used drums to call pirates from around the town to the beach for the world record attempt on Friday afternoon. Reports that free rum, spirts and wenches assisted the record grab were unconfirmed the next day.

Tarika Vara, from the Guinness World Records, said: "Hastings isn't that large so for me this is very surprising."

"Mass participation records are very hard to beat so we always keep that in mind.

"This is just extraordinary and I'm so proud of the organisers, the Pirates and for Hastings."

According to the Guinness criteria, people could only qualify as pirates if they wore a pirate hat or bandana and eye patch, a striped or plain T-shirt, tatty or rolled up trousers or a pirate-style skirt or knickers and an accessory such as a sword, a musket, a pirate flag or a parrot, and enjoyed a drink and messing about in boats.

A total of 6,166 buccaneers and seadogs took part in the event, smashing the previous record of 1,800 pirates.
The Seven Seas Pirate Code states "that the Code,(guidelines, really) will be enforced by all, so all pirate must get together offten to discuss the Code."

International Talk Like a Pirate Day in Airlie Beach is on Saturday, September 18 this year. Attendence required. Or else.

Yarr! Rum all around!

2010 will see Pirates take Airlie Beach by storm

2010-05-17T15:02:00.000-07:00

Saturday September 18 be the day pirates will be out talking and messin' about in Airlie Beach fer 2010.

Pirate Day Update

2009-09-18T19:12:00.000-07:00

International Talk Like A Pirate Day in Airlie Beach - Beaches Resort is having Pirate Day all day with prizes and silliness - Our crew will be pillaging there from about 3 pm till . . . well . . . laterrrr.
Need info? Cap'n Dan 0407676952

2009-03-09T18:03:00.000-07:00

Sting in the tail
ANNA Bligh’s recent trip to far north Queensland wasn’t wasted. During her time at Airlie Beach, Bligh joined her illustrious ancestor of HMS Bounty fame, William Bligh, in becoming a ship’s captain. Cap’n Dan Van Blarcom, who runs an organisation called Pirates of Whitsunday, issued Bligh a “ship captain certificate” (a year ago really Ed)
The certificate authorises Bligh to be “in command of the the ship of state and furthermore, as master, to wield the lash were necessary”. If Hollywood is to be believed, any descendant of William Bligh will need no lessons in how to best use a cat’-o-nine-tails. (Edited for facts)

International Talk like a Pirate Day in Airlie Beach

2009-02-02T17:29:00.000-08:00

International Talk like a Pirate Day in Airlie Beach – Saturday September 19, 2009 – Everyone likes to talk like a pirate so in a town like Airlie you can also dress up like a pirate and have some fun. The Pirates of the Whitsundays are the polite pirates who use their manners and say please and thank you, and ensure that visitors always come first.

Monique Wright gets Pirate cuddle from Cap'n Dan

2007-07-12T16:06:00.000-07:00

International Talk like a Pirate Day in Airlie Beach on Channel 7's Sunrise program

2007-07-12T15:52:00.000-07:00