Winning Programme Number: 1758, if you have the winning program
please get in touch (contact details - click here)
Prize Draw Winners:
1st Place - Ticket 0543 - Andrea from Dartmouth
2nd Place - Ticket 0725 - Tony from Brixham
3rd Place - Ticket 0557 - Mrs Phillips from Brixham
We broke the world record: “The Most pirates in one gathering” at the 2009 festival, it was broken again, we won it back in 2010 with 1744 pirates! Read more »
The “Arr Factor” - Enjoy our sea shanty and folk music competition at various venues around the town.
See videos and photos of all the fun Here.
There are more pirate events! - the Brixham Buccaneers hold other events throughout the year including Pirate Days.
Click Here for more details
To keep up to date with what is happening with the festival, ask questions or contribute ideas, join our Yahoo group Here!.
Important Notes
Please download Registration Cards, print
and complete one per person joining
the record attempt and bring them with you on the day to hand in
at one of the the registration points in the town.
All children under 18 must have parental consent. This is at the bottom of the Registration Card which can be downloaded here.
To take part in the record attempt you must wear the items listed on the "Ahoy There" sheet above.
About the Festival
Welcome to Brixham, we be hopin thee be ‘yer to enjoy ar festival
volunteers who ave provided Pirate family fun days fer the last 3 yers.
o’swashbucklin an hearty fun so if’n ye enjoy yer time ere then make port yer agin soon cuz we be appy ter see thee agin.
The Brixham Buccaneers volunteers are launching an appeal for an even bigger local response for our new record bid during the second Pirate and Shanty Festival this Spring.
Busting our 2009 Guinness Book of Records total of 1,467 and fighting off the American bid are top priorities at the April 30 - May 3 festivities.
Spokesman Captain Blood 'n' Guts said the volunteers, who also stage family entertainment on most summer Thursdays, are determined to hang onto their claim to fame.
"We had brilliant support from local people who all dressed up last year for the big count, so we're relying on them again to come along on Sunday, May 2."
"It was a fun day for everyone last year and attracted pirate fans from as far afield as Kent, Scotland and Germany."
He added: "We can't let Brixham's title sink without trace."
TV megastar Simon Cowell should also be warned that top-rated show the "X-Factor" has a new harbourside rival in Torbay.
The "Arr-Factor" has prizemoney totalling £1,000 and will be hunting out the best shanty talent as musicians and singers go head-to-head.
This year the waterfront festival alongside the Golden Hind galleon has a Caribbean theme with a join-in torchlit procession, sword fights, and Captain Jack Sparrow lookalike Jonty Depp.
Fire eaters, a new rat-lobbing championship (toys not live), and talk-like-a-pirate workshops will add to the fun.
