[Sca-cooks] OT Buccaneering was A Question of Spit Roasting....

[Terry Decker]

The specific reason for choosing Cornwall is the existence of a noble family
which controlled most of the wrecking, smuggling and piracy along part of
the coast for several generations most notably during Elizabeth's reign.
They used their influence in the court to keep the authorities out of their
business.

The history of piracy in the Elizabethean period is rather fascinating due
to the number of pirates operating in and around the Isles; Scots, Irish,
Welsh, Cornish, Barbary, etc., not to mention the Queen's seadogs.

Plunder and intrigue make for an interesting event if properly done.

Bear

>Cornwall is a good choice for a pirate theme.  There are locations on the
>Cornish coast that have been used for smuggling for hundreds of years.
>That's what they said on the tour I went on in 1981 anyway, in
>the quaint, unspoilt fishing village of Polperro, where they had made
>a major heroin bust in a cave that had been a quaint historical
>smugglers' cave for centuries.
>
>Selene