This be a documentary-based reality show about The MacKay Pirate Family, Golden Age pirates living in modern times, and their pirate mates. Unlike their raping and pillaging ancestors, these modern-day pirates are focused on giving back via art, entertainment, culture, charity, and living history. Icarus A&E's most recent reality creation, Knights of Mayhem, will air on National Geographic in Fall 2011.

A PIRATE'S LIFE will highlight the exploding sub-culture of pirate reenactment enthusiasts through the day to day lives of “The MacKay Pirate Family” and the community they’re a part of which is made up of talented swordsmen, marksmen, sailors, artisans, artists and musicians. We’ll prominently feature many of these fine Rogues who, like the MacKays, actually make their living from the pirate life and are focused on giving back to their communities through art, entertainment, culture, charity, and living history.

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This be arrrr 12th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Nov  2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

Avast me harties, after a year n' a half in my new location, called the Cerveau House, a grand 130 year buildin' owned by the State of Florida as a Historical Property, on 26 Cuna Street, I have moved all my storage area n' residents 100 feet down the road to the Benet House, another historical property. This allowed me to expand my store by 30 percent with a TeeShirt N Costume Room as well as a Leather N Armoury Room.

I have done most of the work from refinishing the floors to making the cabinets n' fixtures myself. That's why this newsletter be a little late matie. So drop by my newly expanded store, I'm sure ye will find some booty to plunder before Halloween.

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This be arrrr 11th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Oct 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

Avast all ye pyrate loving souls. Come to the oldest city in the USA to celebrate the best “Talk Like a Pirate Day” weekend. Spend an entire weekend dressed in pirate garb walking down historic cobblestone roads next to Spanish Fortresses built to keep the pirate’s out. Learn to talk, fight n’ drink like a pirate, arrrrrgh!

Friday: Tour of Colonial Spanish Quarter, Tour of Castillo de San Marcos, and Brethern Pub Crawl

Saturday: Fact vs Fiction of Pirate Boarding Actions, Guided Tour of St Augustine Piraet & Treasure Museum, Hot Pirate Calendar Release Party

Sunday: Hand's On Seminar of Cutlass Boarding Action

Featuring the world famous Naked Cowboy from Time Square dressed at a Pirate singing Sea Shanties at arrrr hot event only!

Check out the video at:
Talk Like a Pyrate Day Weekend

Instead of tryin' to waterdown the event by makin' it as cheap as possible like a landlubber would, we believe with all arrrr heart that life be too short to put on bad party, so we strive to be puttin' on the most unique n' fun events possible, even if it cost a wee bit little extra.

Calendar Release Party be only $45
Entire Weekend Tickets be only $120

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This be arrrr 10th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Sep 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

One of my good maties from the Port of San Diego, Oderlesseye, send me a DVD he crafted. This be a fun short 30 minute DVD of a classic Ninja vs. Pirate saga. The video will premiere at the event. This year Pyrate Daze is donating to the Heartfelt Cardiac Project and the OC Fallen Firefighters Fund. Friends of Cindy Warner aka Willoughby Caught will be given a website address where cash gifts can be sent to her to help her cancer recovery. Ye can find out more from: Oderlesseye's website.

I hope that this little project might impire more pyrates to make their own video instead of relying on the East Indian Mouse Company to produce Pirate Movies. So if ye so, let me a copy n' I be happy to review it fer ye.

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This be arrrr 9th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Aug 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

The live-action project is a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s classic novel Peter Pan. It was written and directed by Nick Willing, and the story "centers on Peter (Rowe) who, along with his pals of young pickpockets, have been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook (Ifans) to snatch a magical orb which transports them to another world - Neverland. Filled with white jungles and imposing cities formed out of trees created by Dr. Fludd (Dance) and inhabited by a colony of tree spirits led by Tinker Bell (Knightley), this mysterious realm welcomes unknown friends and enemies snatched from time. These include power-mad Elizabeth Bonny (Friel) and her band of 18th century pirates who search for the answer to eternal youth, a secret guarded by a Holy Man (Trujillo). As the fight to save this strange and beautiful world escalates, Peter and his crew consider that growing old somewhere in time could be less important than growing up—right here in their new home called Neverland."

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This be arrrr 8th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Jul 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

This 10 to 13 episode TV series be based on historical events, Pyrates be described as a gritty portrayal of the men and women who pulled off the largest heist on pirate history -- the capture of the Spanish silver fleet in 1628 -- sparking the golden age of piracy, a time when there was greater honor amongst thieves than those who hunted them. FX and Fox International Channels teamed with producers Graham King and Gale Anne Hurd for 17th century pirate drama Port Royal. The limited series be set fer the summer 2012. The series be created by Law & Order/Numbers veteran Barry Schindel, with Stephen Hopkins (24) on board to direct the first episode. Indie producer Ensemble Entertainment is producing in association with Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free Prods (Gladiator)

When I did my research on the capture of the Spanish Silver fleet of 1628, from the Battle in bay of Matanzas, it was a Dutch VOC squadron action off the Cuban coast, not a buccaneer action. There might of been some Dutch Privateers invovled, but it mostly seemed like a regular naval battle during the Eighty Year war.

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This be arrrr 7th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Jun 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

Well ye be a lubber if ye didn't know about this one. Be prepared fer a grand summer of pyrating. Make sure you have all yar gear fer the night of May 19. Love o' hate the Pirate of the Caribbean movie series, it does help float all the pirate boats, which be good fer the pirate community in general. This one is about the Fountain of Youth, (which is about a mile down the road from my store) n' mermaids (wait until you see the 2012 Hot Pirate Babe Calendar).

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This be arrrr 6th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for May 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

My good friends, Mike N' Kathy of Pirates of the Treasure Coast brough their Blackbeard's Pirate Ship, which be a miniture rendition of the fully rigged Queen Anne's Revenge, to this year's MegaCon in Orlando, Florida - March 25-27.

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This be arrrr 5th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Apr 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

Warner Bros. be workin' on another film version of the classic pirate tale Treasure Island in the works – one which will “modernize” the novel in the same fashion as the recent Sherlock Holmes film. Appropriately, Sherlock Holmes producer Lionel Wigram is working with Warner Bros. on this new “updated” adventure film, which will be based on a script by relative newcomer Michael Gilio.

SyFy n' RHI Entertainment be takin' on a new television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, Treasure Island. This television movie be off to a great start with the casting of Elijah Wood as Ben Gunn, Donald Sutherland as Flint, and Eddie Izzard as Long John Silver. Toby Regbo will play Jim Hawkins and Phillip Glenister, Rupert-Penry-Jones, David Harewood and Keith Allen have also been cast in Treasure Island. The project set to film in Puerto Rice and Ireland.

While there have been almost a dozen Treasure Island films produced over the years, the one that most people remember is the 1950 Disney film which starred Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins, and Robert Newton as Long John Silver. It was Disney‘s first completely live-action film, and the first screen version of Treasure Island made in color.

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This be arrrr 4th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Mar 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

May 20 be the date when POTC4 be landin' at a theather near yar shores. Ye can watch themovie trailer, this one be about Blackbeard, his daughter n' the Fountain of Youth, which be about one mile from my shop in St Augustine, but Disney decided to shoot it in Hawaii instead.

Gasparilla Pirate Festival be the largest pirate event with over 400,000 attendin! It celebrates the apocryphal legend of Jose Gaspar, supposedly a Spanish pirate captain who operated in around Tampa, Florida. I be takin' thee formal group portraits of four scurvy krewes.

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This be arrrr 3rd issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Feb 2011 when we were still located in St Augustine, FL. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.