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If you happen to be in southern California tomorrow, Thursday June 26'th, and have nothing to do, head on over to Big Bear lake for Holloway’s Marina’s 100th anniversary celebration! It just so happens to coincide with the restoration and re-launch of Big Bear Lake's one and only pirate ship “Time Bandit!” She is a rather small replica ship, a 38-foot replica of a Spanish galleon, but there is a reason for that. She was originally built in 1980 for the film Time Bandits. Which was not technically a Monty Python movie, but the fact that it was directed by Terry Gilliam, and written by Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam, and stared John Cleese it very well should have been!
Anyway, back top the boat! It sank during a late winter storm earlier this year in March, and was raised and re-floated two weeks later. She has been undergoing restoration work since and has had a hole in her hull repaired, new marine plywood, new fiberglass applied and of course a new coat of paint!
In this Youtube video, Loren Hafen, owner of the Time Bandit Pirate Ship tells KBHR the effort it took to raise the Pirate Ship from where she sank on March 1'st.
Here is a Youtube videos of her from a few years ago during happier times.
And of course, this post would not be complete without the giant clip from Time Bandits!
You can find some great pics of her over at BigBearLake.net, and you can find out more about Big Bear Lake at http://www.bigbear.us/, although for some strange reason they do not even mention the pirate ship!
Anyway, back top the boat! It sank during a late winter storm earlier this year in March, and was raised and re-floated two weeks later. She has been undergoing restoration work since and has had a hole in her hull repaired, new marine plywood, new fiberglass applied and of course a new coat of paint!
In this Youtube video, Loren Hafen, owner of the Time Bandit Pirate Ship tells KBHR the effort it took to raise the Pirate Ship from where she sank on March 1'st.
Here is a Youtube videos of her from a few years ago during happier times.
And of course, this post would not be complete without the giant clip from Time Bandits!
You can find some great pics of her over at BigBearLake.net, and you can find out more about Big Bear Lake at http://www.bigbear.us/, although for some strange reason they do not even mention the pirate ship!
