Under a cloudless summer sky, thousands of onlookers clustered along the beach to watch a swath of Seafair Pirates exit their boat to charge the masses Saturday, July 7, 2012, at Alki Point in Seattle, Wash. While on course toward the shore, the marauders' boat ran aground on an unforeseen sandbar several feet below the surface of the water. The glitch was quickly forgotten after the boat's captain reset the vessel's course and the rusty gate dropped, letting loose the pack of pirates.
Margarita Martinez, in blue and orange stripes, takes a moment to pull back her fake eyepatch to look up the beach while waiting for the Seafair Pirates to arrive on Saturday, July 7, 2012, at Alki Point in Seattle, Wash.
Wearing the same pirate costume that he attended a pub crawl in this past weekend, Paul Twibell, of Alki, shows off some of his jewelry Saturday, July 7, 2012, at Alki Point in Seattle, Wash.
Marius Devine, 3, right, and grandmother Suzanne Broback, left, wait for Devine's father - a Seafair Pirate - to show up in the infamous boat Saturday, July 7, 2012, at Alki Point in Seattle, Wash. Under a cloudless summer sky, thousands clustered along the beach to watch the swath of bearded marauders exit their boats.
