Just $3,705 per pirate! Plus, Thomas Tew's shady deal, modern sea rogues & pirate festivals!... Issue #80 – Nov 6th, 2026

This week, we're sailing straight into the darkness with the chilling legend of Captain Kidd's cursed treasure. Somewhere on a lonely Connecticut island, a headless guardian is said to protect a buried fortune—and those foolish enough to disturb it may find themselves running for their lives

This week, a nor’easter uncovers a long-buried shipwreck on Nantucket—and gives us a remarkable connection to Black Sam Bellamy and the Whydah. Then Blackbeard raids a ship for its wine, Christopher Condent pulls off the pirate dream of getting rich and actually knowing when to quit, and we've got three pirate gatherings stretching from California to England.

This week, we're sailing from the Red Sea to Cape Fear and all the way into the modern Gulf of Aden. Robert Culliford and Dirk Chivers capture a fortune. Jean Lafitte celebrates a birthday that may—or may not—actually be his birthday. And Stede Bonnet fights one of the strangest last stands of the Golden Age, when both sides run aground in the middle of the battle.

September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, the worldwide holiday for pirates, buccaneers, scallywags—and even those privateers still teetering on the rails. We've got your official excuse to celebrate, a FREE Pirate Phrasebook to make sure ye don't sound like a landlubber, and pirate gatherings from San Diego to Galveston.

An actual pirate ship gets seized in Hawaii, and the Maritime Museum of San Diego has summoned The Pirate Republic for a pirate invasion of the waterfront. Pirates, outlaws, pardons and plunder—let’s get underway.

This week we're sailing back to August 1720, when Calico Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny and Mary Read decided to return to piracy—and began their adventure by stealing the sloop William right out of Nassau Harbor.

A chambermaid uncovers a pirate's fortune, the Queen's Pirate faces the Spanish Armada, Comic-Con sets sail online, and we've got an exclusive 20% discount for the crew.... Issue #66

Woodes Rogers changes pirate history, the Whydah rises from the deep, Blackbeard returns to video games, and pirate festivals take over both sides of the Atlantic... Issue #64 Ahoy, Matey Every time someone declares piracy dead... Another pirate story proves them wrong. This week we're celebrating the legends that continue to inspire us—from the discovery of the Whydah and the legacy of Woodes Rogers to new pirate adventures on our screens and real-world pirate gatherings aro