This is what happened last year. 14,231 people gathered together on the beach and wrested back the official record for the largest ever pirate gathering in the world from those usurpers in Penzance, who had looted it from us the year before. I'm somewhere in that picture...
We're not trying to beat the record again this year, we'll just be having a celebration. Bizarrely, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (an NFL football team, I'm informed) have donated a pirate ship they no longer need to the town, which now sits in dry dock in the shopping centre, looking very out of place. We're promised sky diving pirates, a stunt team of parrots, music and dancing. But most of all, the people of Hastings will be doing what they do best - being joyfully eccentric.
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