Pirates and Wenches Weekend - Rock Hall, MD

Pirates and wenches invaded Rock Hall for the weekend.  Friday night we joined them in sampling and voting on our favorite rum.  Of course, sea shanties are mandatory if you drink with pirates.  So, to avoid conflict and promote goodwill, we drank and sang along with the best and worst of the pirates and wenches.

Saturday was filled with many activities.  The pirate dinghy parade and subsequent melee in the harbor were great fun.  Water cannon were quite effective in drenching towns-people and pirates alike.  The battle lasted for nearly an hour.

Rock Hall residents flew numerous pirate flags and decorated their businesses and homes in pirate themes.  Many of the locals “came out of the closet” and brazenly wore their pirate attire in public.

We finished our Saturday festivities at Waterman’s which hosted the Pirates and Wenches Ball.  The kind and queen of the ball were selected.  The queen this year happened to be a mermaid.  Dwayne entered the “Graybeard” contest.  Two of the wenches judging found his un-kept beard attractive and liked how soft it felt when they stroked it.  However, a taller, less scruffy pirate was deemed the winner.