Seafair Pirates

Throughout the summer the Seafair Pirates participate in approximately 40 local festivals as well as several hundred private appearances.

"Seafair has become a home town jewel that reaches nearly 2 million Puget Sound residents each summer.

[4] The Seafair Pirates are goodwill ambassadors for the city of Seattle, and have traveled across the United States and Canada, as well as to Grand Cayman, Mazatlán, Kobe, and Taiwan.

In 2007, Sports Illustrated was shooting its Swimsuit Issue for 2008 and the pirates appeared in full uniform with model Melissa Haro.

[5] In 1949 the younger members of the Washington State Press Club's action committee, the Ale & Quail Society, founded the Seattle Seafair Pirates.

Every summer since 1950 the Seafair festivities have begun with the annual proclamation of Davy Jones' renewed warfare upon the upstart, so-called "King" Neptune.

In early days the Seafair Pirates' triumph often included the burning of Neptune's flagship, complete with fire-works.

The Moby Duck is a former DUKW from World War II which has been highly modified to resemble an old Spanish galleon.