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Please note:  None of our performers or officers are paid, we are all volunteers.  We do this for the fun and educational support.  100% of any fees or donations collected go towards prop construction, costuming, travel and operational expenses

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School/Library Partial Crew Attendance of event: $250
1 to 6 Crew members appear at school in full garb and persona provide an educational presentation, up to 2 hours.

Non-School Partial Crew Attendance of event: $350
1 or 6 Crew members attend the event in full garb and persona and interact with public, up to 2 hours.

Single Show - Full Crew of the Dauntless to Perform with the Dauntless and dock: $500
Full Crew (15 to 25) attends the event in full garb and persona to interact with attendees for up to a two day event, up to 8 hours each day.  The Dauntless is the stage Dock and a fully rigged single mast with yardarms set behind the Dock.  We generate the look and feel of an operating sailing merchant/privateer vessel. This includes one 15 to 20 min. "Life at Sea" show per day, a single gunner drill (hands on with the kids), an hour of guided ship board tours, and other random short living history gig’s that will occur throughout the event.

Double Show - Full Crew of the Dauntless to Perform with the Dauntless and dock: $750
Full Crew (15 to 25) attends the event in full garb and persona to interact with attendees for up to a two day event, up to 8 hours each day.  The Dauntless is the stage Dock and a fully rigged single mast with yardarms set behind the Dock.  We generate the look and feel of an operating sailing merchant/privateer vessel. This included two 15 to 20  min. "Life at Sea" shows per day, two gunner drills (hands on with the kids), an hour of guided ship board tours, and other random short living history gig’s that will occur throughout the event.

If our 45' tall mast is made to visible to the folks outside your shire, and attracts just 50 more patrons to your event, then we will have paid for ourselves and covered your fee!

The "Privateers of the Dauntless" setup and an encampment that represents the Armed Merchant Ship "Dauntless" and its dock, an elevated stage with barrels, crates, bails, sacks, etc, as cargo. Behind this dock is our full main mast, complete with rat lines, two yardarms and sails, 19 inch in diameter and 45 ft. in height. The mast is workable aloft to the first yardarm. Along with this, we setup educational props of a bell stand, full helm, firing "prop" swivel cannons, and a 4.5’ Deck cannon/carriage replica. We also carry and demonstrate various navigational tools such as the back staff, sandglass, traverse board, binical, logline and lead line.

Each season we add more and more detail to enhance the representation and educational abilities. Our daily routine is intended give the illusion of a full ship with crew. Shifting of watches going aloft to the crow’s nest, bell sounding the time, cargo moving, commands barking out. Our sailors will be tending to their duties mending sails and lines, the carpenters making repairs and the purser conducting trade from the dock of our cargo. Our group is VERY patron interactive and particularly child friendly, as this is our primary focus. We interact with the patrons by demonstrating maritime skills and teaching maritime history as well as full on performances with live steel duels, ships navigation, and other maritime skills.

Our group specifically leans away from the typical 1700 "pirate" persona (unless requested otherwise) and aspire to be more of a legitimate 16th century armed merchant. (Private Man-O-War) We are a theatrical troupe, developing song, in the form of shanties, gigs, and live steel duels. We provide educational interaction and pre-event educational materials. (See our web site for more educational information). We do ask for a fee/donation for our performance, which is set well below market for similar performances and is used for logistics/transportation costs, liability insurance coverage, prop maintenance and new prop acquisition. All of the performers are volunteers; none of the performing troupe is compensated for their performances.

We offer a stage show on our Dauntless stage called "Life at Sea".  Each show being 15 to 20 min. in length.  In these shows the Captain will introduce 2 to 3 different crewman having them present, theatrically, their duties and skills. Each show has different crewman presenter so each show is unique per day.  We started this for School groups but it's been so successful we've carried it over for the general patrons and it has been received quite well, generally more audience than we are provided seating for.  This show is usually preceded with a “Great Gun” cannon drill in which our gunners instruct patron children on how to load and run out the ships guns.  Usually about 30 min. each.   Additionally to open the ship for guided tours,  a live steal duel,  and several other short gigs throughout the day.

For our non-setup presentations we bring in various nautical props from the ship and provide a condensed and focused presentation on various nautical topics.  This tends to be customized for the event, based on allowed time, age group and by the available crew functions that will be presenting.  We cover such topics as attire, navigation, ships watches and bells, discipline, flags, cargo, money, coopering, medical practices, and more.