Win Passes ($35) Portland Pirate Festival | Labor Day Weekend Events, Giant Ship, Mermaid Lagoon, Costumes, Last Regiment Drummers
August 16, 2011 — PDXPIPELINEWe have a pair of full adult passes ($18) for the Portland Pirate Festival on Labor Day weekend. To win, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winner will be emailed and drawn on Monday, August 22.
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From our sponsors at Portland Pirate Fest:
Portland Pirate Festival
Saturday, September 3, 10 a.m. – Midnight
Sunday, September 4, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
FREE | All Ages
portlandpiratefestival.com
@ St. Helen’s Historic Waterfront
Climb aboard as the 6th annual Portland Pirate Festival sets sail for two exciting days of piratical fun and family adventure while we invade the historic waterfront of St. Helens, OR. The Festival weekend begins on Saturday, September 3rd and ends on Sunday, September 4th and features all of the fun and excitement it has become famous for, with the awesome addition of more access for boaters!
The new location in St Helens, OR (Portland's nearest escape and film location for the first Twilight movie) offers a variety of great changes to this staple NW festival, including: a beautiful spot on the Columbia River, an Olde Towne setting and ample moorage for boats at the city docks and on Sand Island.
The Portland Pirate Festival is proud to be helping bring a Tall Ship permanently to the waters of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. The beautiful 68' Square Tops'l Ketch ¬Å“Royaliste¬Â will be arriving in Portland not long after the festival, in time for Talk Like a Pirate Day, and PPF is lending its support towards helping her make the move from Kentucky Lake.
This wooden hulled sailing ship will serve as a center of maritime education and become an active part of communities and events in the area for decades to come. This year's festival will raffle off a private party on The Royaliste, as well as other prizes, and all proceeds will go towards helping cover the over-land hauling expenses of this exciting relocation effort. PPF LLC will assume a major role in organizing and promoting this unique opportunity year-round. The Royaliste will be brought to us by Margot Productions LLC.
For the kids this year's lineup includes a host of family friendly entertainment, including the giant strolling puppets of Seattle's Zambini Brothers, Let's Pretend's interactive high energy children's theater, Dragon Theater Puppet Shows, scavenger hunts and interactive games with The Pirates of Puget Sound; cannon shows on Thunder Ridge; and giant inflatable rides such as The Kraken‘.
August 16, 2011 at 12:38
Yes please-my kids would love this!!! It sounds like lots of fun!
August 16, 2011 at 12:38
oh my god, this is my childhood dream!
August 16, 2011 at 12:48
I would love to surprise my friend Suzie by winning these tickets. She loves pirates.
August 16, 2011 at 12:57
I want to surprise my sister for her birthday with a pair of pirate festival tickets. She is a pirate’s wench at heart! I promise to take a few photos of us at the pirate festival and you can post them to PDX pipeline and twitter them out. We love PDX pipeline!
August 16, 2011 at 13:08
I want to see pirates!!! I’ve never been to a pirate festival.
August 16, 2011 at 13:10
I’d love to go and blunder some booty
August 16, 2011 at 13:19
So, as a long-standing participant of Plunderathon, I was plundering merrily along this year when to my surprise someone yelled out “Wench!” intending to get _my_ attention. “What scurvy blather be this? ‘Tis a brave soul indeed who thinks to call me ‘wench’ and live to tell the tale!” I replied. “Have ye a weapon then?” the impertinent sailor asked, leeringly. “I have not, but I can still give you a good wallopin.” said I. In my indignation, I told and retold the tale, only to have the tawdry picaroon’s assumptions confirmed again and again. I will not be a wench, I say. So I must get to the Portland Pirate Festival and acquire a suitable weapon this year. Yer assistance be greatly appreciated, or ye may find yerself dancin’ the hempen jig.
August 16, 2011 at 13:24
Aye. Me n’ me lass would be like’n to go n fill our bellys with grog.
August 16, 2011 at 13:30
This would be great!
August 16, 2011 at 15:41
Me and me shipmate wanner go do s’me honest celebratin’ with our fellow pirates, in full nautical garb.
August 16, 2011 at 16:29
ARRRGH MATIE! Prepare to be barded! haha ^-^
August 16, 2011 at 17:17
my son would lose his mind!
August 16, 2011 at 19:18
OHHHH please send me on this. I would be SO excited. I dress up as a pirate ALL the time…okay maybe just on Halloween! :)
August 17, 2011 at 08:58
I would love to attend because A) I love pirates, B) I love men in pirate get-ups, C) you used the phrase “piratical fun” and that sold me on the event, D) it would give me a chance to dust off my pirate lingo.
August 17, 2011 at 10:40
Errrrr. I wanna goerrrr
August 17, 2011 at 23:48
I recently moved to Portland and have been thoroughly enjoying the unique activities and events taking place throughout the city over the course of the summer. The Pirate Festival was one of the first events I learned of and has been on my calendar since before I moved here in June. It seems like a perfect opportunity to experience the quirkiness of Oregon while simultaneously learning about a unique aspect of Oregon’s history and something I know very little about, as an East-Coaster.
August 18, 2011 at 15:52
I’d love to go because I’ve never been before. Maybe if I got to go I’ll pillage something or someone or something…
August 18, 2011 at 16:41
My sons would go nuts over this… We have eye patches, bandannas, pirate hats and swords at our house for the constant pirate action going on! We love “Talk like a Pirate Day” and this would be the ultimate fun for our family!
:) walking the plank would be fun!
August 18, 2011 at 16:41
My sons would go nuts over this… We have eye patches, bandannas, pirate hats and swords at our house for the constant pirate action going on! We love “Talk like a Pirate Day” and this would be the ultimate fun for our family!
:) walking the plank would be fun!
August 18, 2011 at 17:02
This Wench needs a reason to wear her corset and consort with scallywags!
August 18, 2011 at 19:24
My man has a pirate fetish…please!
August 18, 2011 at 20:02
I’ve earned this….I just finished Pirate School and I got nothing but High Seas.
August 18, 2011 at 20:06
Yar! Me wench be sayin that ninjas be better than pirates, and I need to be showing her the truth!
August 18, 2011 at 20:16
I’ve never been! This wench wants to go!
August 18, 2011 at 20:22
Who needs Johnny Depp…or Keith Richards when we have our very own home-grown event. This comes highly recommended by some of the potters at the Blues Festival!
August 18, 2011 at 21:02
I would love tickets because that is the weekend of my 28th birthday that I am not really looking forward to. It would give me something extremely fun to do for the weekend, and something my son and I would have a blast at!
August 18, 2011 at 22:04
The fun never stops in Portland! My girls would love to go to Pirate Fest, and they can do so if their chaperones are paid for! It is important that Ivy and Hilda (10 and 12) see that females can be rough and tumble marines, and not just grody wenches! We love Portland Lady Pirates!!!!
Coincidentally, their chaperones would also LOVE to attend this Portland tradition! YAAAAARGH!
August 18, 2011 at 22:20
Aye…me harties. I loves me a good Pirate Festival! Me kids be liking it too. AAARRRRRGGGGGHHH!
August 18, 2011 at 23:56
No way… I’ve never heard of this before, but it sounds like so much fun!!! I would so love to be able to go and take my pirate-wench-best-friend.
August 19, 2011 at 06:28
My husband has gone to the pirate festival every year since it opened at St. Johns. This year it seems unlikely we will be able to afford for him to go. I would love to surprise him with 2 tickets and keep the tradition going.
August 19, 2011 at 09:07
We’re hoping to get our friend to take us to the Pirate Festival by boat. Free tickets can help smooth that out. We’ll be in costume, and flying a small pirate flag.
August 19, 2011 at 10:36
My roommate’s nephew is coming to visit, and he would love this!
August 19, 2011 at 12:14
yo ho yo ho RRRRRRRRR, never been so I think it would be super duper!!!
August 19, 2011 at 13:34
AARRRRRRR!
August 19, 2011 at 22:34
Fun
August 20, 2011 at 10:05
Aye! I’ve been a pirate since I lived back in Georgia, but I’ve always happened to be out of town. Now I’m free of the shackles of the undergraduate system, and am hell-bent on reachin’ those waters!
August 20, 2011 at 11:45
Corsets. ‘Nuff said.
August 20, 2011 at 11:52
Truly, the importance of the event is exposure to the maritime traditions, and of bringing a tall ship to a Columbia/Willamette homeport. I am really excited at attending this with family and friends. Light-hearted fun, though we all know piracy will get you hung from the crosstrees or the gibbet.
August 21, 2011 at 20:18
ArrrRrRRrrRr.. tis a good way to have me birthday it is! ArrrRRrrRrr!
August 21, 2011 at 20:54
OMG, I want to win pirate tix to take my sister–she dresses like a pirate in her every day affairs!
August 22, 2011 at 18:30
I wrote a song about how my friend, a longtime bartender at the Eastside’s iconic Jolly Roger bar, is a Pirate on the Willamette!
August 25, 2011 at 01:31
I would love to attend this! Recently moved to Portland, and I’m trying to go to as many fun festivals as possible! I bet this festival is ten times better than Seattle’s Seafair pirate spectacle… would love to know for sure! ;o)
August 25, 2011 at 17:12
So much fun! Pick me!
August 25, 2011 at 21:08
Aaaaaarrrrrhhhh matey!
August 27, 2011 at 10:13
This is such a blast! I’ve been wanting to go! My son & I would be ecstactic…
August 27, 2011 at 11:33
I’ve been to the eastern most pirate festival, in Eastport, ME and had a blast. Being new to the west coast and PDX I’d LOVE to see/be a part of this pirate festival!
August 29, 2011 at 13:39
this is perfect family fun!! my kids would love this as would I
September 1, 2011 at 09:13
We just flew in from Brazil. Want give the kids a taste of some authentic Portland culture!!! Four of us.
September 1, 2011 at 16:47
Pick me, Pick me
September 1, 2011 at 17:19
My wife and our daughter would love to go matey!!!
September 1, 2011 at 18:25
Yes. Please, this sounds awesome.
September 1, 2011 at 21:01
Arrr, me would lo’e t’ win tickets t’ the pirate Festi’al. Thars nothin’ like fillin’ my belly with grog and findin’ the wenches. Please choose this pirate t’ represent Pdx pipeline at this festi’al. I’ll e’en share some o’ my treasure with you. Ye’ll ne’er get me buried booty
September 1, 2011 at 21:29
I would love to prepare for National Talk like a Pirate Day on Sept 19th, by going to this festival! Pick me! :)
September 2, 2011 at 00:01
Who wouldn’t wanna see pirates?
September 2, 2011 at 04:17
I think it’s the pirates festival for me! Arrr! Who doesn’t love pirates and wouldn’t want to win tickets? Uhmm, yeah, my first mate and I discussed this and the answer is no one. We want to go!
September 2, 2011 at 09:18
This would be REEEEALLY NEAT! Ha ha ha – how about your first time on a boat being aboard a pirate ship?! YES.
September 2, 2011 at 09:19
Okay, so i already have an accent. Wouldnt it be fun to add a pirate one to that? Im pretty sure I am needed at this event.
September 2, 2011 at 14:30
Aye matey! Me n my mate would love to introduce our mini-pirate to the wonders and joys of pirattitude! We all have our outfits and are ready to rock on Sunday! We’ve not been able to muster the booty in the past, and this be our year – we be wantin’ YER booty. NOW! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……….
September 3, 2011 at 12:44
ARRRRRRRRRR!!