Click on play to check out images from the 10th Anniversary Blackbeard Festival Blackbeard's Crew, founded in the year of our lord 2000, is a living history performance group dedicated to the accurate representation of seafaring life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, specifically 1650-1730.     Clockwise from top left: Cap'n Pern demonstrates how to talk like a Pirate, Clive issues instructions to new recruits during the Scalawag School for Aspiring Pirates,  Underway on the Explorer with Coxswain Dutch barking commands, Gunner's Mate Thomas Gates repairs the lead line.

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