Talk Like a Pirate

Monday, 17 September 2007 08:56 | Written by Tony Hopwood |

Talk Like a Pirate Day - September 2007 - Results and Write Ups

A Huge thanks to everyone who joined in - not only with the paddling fun & games but also to all coaches & the parent volunteers (it doesn’t need to stop here - we welcome any help with session & club management!)

Pirate Names Competition

Here are the pirate names posted up on the evening:

Captain Sprog
Monsterous Morgan
Captain Sprat
Freddy Fall in
Captain Peg Leg
Meany
Captain Scallywag
Pirate Pete
Captain Kayak
Squeemish V
Captain Greybeard
Crazy Clurrr
Loopy-eared Munkety Dunckty

And the prize for being the most imaginatively silly name goes to Loopy Eared (Maddie) Munkety Dunckty

Non-alcoholic Grog: The scariest recipe suggestion for a healthy recipe goes to Lauren, purely because anything with things floating to the surface is a Top Idea, particularly after skimming soggy plank-walking paddlers out of the canal.

If you want to try her recipe, mix half a cup of cranberry juice with half a cup of orange and add as many whole grapes you like to enjoy a “Blood and Eyeballs Surprise”

Great to see some creative bandana badges. The best design goes to Euan for his gory skull outline, carefully done but not overdone.

A “Top Pirate” prize, donated by the Burn family, goes to one particular youth who seized the opportunity to try things, including jumping between open boats, make a great paddling effort and finishing with a humongous pirate leap into the Canal.

Well done to Niall for making the most of the evening.

Write Ups

Thanks to the club for such a fabulous Pirate evening, everyone had loads of fun at Foulridge Wharf. Vikki had organised some fantastic games such as pirate tig and hunting for Ruby's and Emeralds!!

The grand finale was of course 'Walking the plank', (surprise, surprise we all got wet!) We finished off with some unusual drinks to celebrate what fun we'd had!

What a great end to the summer.

Tom Blackburn

I was looking forward to the talk like a pirate day but also a little sad as I knew it was the last Tuesday on the canal. It was dry and sunny when we got there and we set up really quickly so we could get on the water for as long as possible. We got a few funny looks off other canal users with us in our pirate helmets. We all designed and coloured a bandana to stick on our helmets. Lots and lots of people had turned up for the session.

When I found out that I was able to get into a large canoe I was overjoyed as I had only been in the smaller kayaks before. We set off (with 2 others in my boat) and had a great game of collecting brightly coloured plastic balls and putting them in the large canoes. A lot of splashing of pirates was done.

Towards the end of the session we took turns in walking the plank (two large canoes strapped together with a plank sticking out manned by George and Vikki) with me doing it twice so that I got totally soaked which I love when I’m on the canal. It was dark by the time we got out and changed into our dry clothes and then we had a choice of very welcome grog to enjoy. We got to make our own mix of lots of different juices and there was a competition to make the most creative grog and I won it!

I had a brilliant time canoeing and kayaking and I have the pool to look forward to next Tuesday. I can’t wait!

Thanks to everyone who helped.

Lauren (Age 10)

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Thank you to SAMS (Scrap Arts Material Store) for sponsoring the competitions.

SAMS is a not for profit community enterprise, its aim is to recycle surplus materials from local business – collect, sort and display them and the offer them to community projects. The company, the community and the environment benefit.

SAMS will take reasonable steps to ensure that the materials it supplies are in safe condition and do not present a hazard to those using them correctly.

If you want to find out more, Vikki is a big SAMS fan or view their website at www.samsblackburn.co.uk

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