Ahoy ye’ ole’ salts, scallywags and swashbucklers o’ Kitsap! Make yer way to thee Port o’ Gamble this weekend fer a whale-sized bounty o’ grog, an’ grub an’ ole’ time sea chanteys, arisin’ from Davy Jones’ Locker.

This Sunday, Port Gamble marks the spot for the Kitsap Peninsula’s second annual Maritime Music Festival which will harbor buccaneers, sailors and landlubbers alike — lest ye be the scurvy mate that’ll end up kissin’ thar gunner’s daughter or walkin’ ye plank!

Belay that talk of black spots and shark bait, me lads and lassies. Aye, it’s just a buccaneer’s boisterous bilge. This fest aims to be a revelry in chantey, free for all.

Puget’s Sound Productions has put together a free-admission set of maritime musicians whose fancy will be followed by a big screen showing of the 1935 pirate classic — “Captain Blood,” starring Errol Flynn — aft dusk. (Bring your own blankets and chairs and something to keep warm, organizers said).

It’ll all pull ashore on the lawn behind the General Store and the Walker Ames house off the main street Port Gamble, with music starting at 3 p.m.

“The location you just can’t beat,” Chris Glanister, organizer and musician, said of the historic and quaint North Kitsap town.

Glanister and his Celtic-centric band Watch the Sky will be returning from last year’s first annual event along with musical storyteller Matthew Moeller, last year’s emcee — who will be back this time accompanied by Glanister and Dan Roberts.

Also sharing the sea-weathered stage will be Spanaway Bay, a duo from, you guessed it, Spanaway; a folk-singing harbormaster of imagery and soul, Chris Roe; and a band hailing from the shores of Olympia in golden age pirate garb — The Budd Bay Buccaneers.

“We are based on the myth and romance, because the actuality of pirate life in the golden age, actually life period in the 16- and 1700s was so horrible that if a person was a pirate more than three years before they died, it was pretty amazing,” said the Bucs’ Cap’n — Dangerous Di.

“As one pirate put it one time: ‘A good life, but a short one,’” added Di’s band mate Barbary Burt.

Something to sing about nonetheless — both a pirate’s life and death.

“If you’ll give me some grog, I’ll sing you a song … give me some time to blow the man down,” so go the lyrics to one of the more well-known traditional chanteys — “Blow the Man Down.” That song resides in the Budd Bay repertoire alongside “Rant and Roar,” “Billy Bones,” and “All for me grog.”

Chanteys were shipboard working songs which flourished circa the 15th century through the mid 20th. Call and response of a repetitious melody and lyrical storytelling tend to make up their structure.

And while each performer will likely being telling some sort of story over the top of their maritime music, Matthew Moeller, in particular, will be spinning tales about the collective Pacific Northwest marina in which he resides.

“He’s got a real gift for bringing alive the local maritime scene,” Glanister said. “He’s a very good storyteller about that which is rich around here.”

As most are already aware by simply taking a look around, there is a hefty chest of maritime treasures to be found around the Sound. And though 2007 is only its second year of existence, perhaps Port Gamble’s Maritime Music Festival can be added to the list — fair winds n’ godspeed!