Yeah, I worked on crew of a docu-drama about the pirate Jean LaFitte, shot in Galveston a few years ago - it shows alternately with another film about the hurricane of 1900 at a tourist/historical attraction in Galveston called "The Great Storm Center". It was a limited-budget shoot and some challenging locations, the entire crew made humorous (and sometimes exasperated) use of the Aarrgghhhh expression that week. Thanks to all the mateys for the reading suggestions. This does indeed seem like an interesting topic and the literature surely deeper than the occasional Zap Comics foray into the scabrous female pirate zone, back in the hazy 70's. 8># gbm