Arrrrr! Mateys. I see yur’ lookn fer Pirate Treasure on the Oregon Coast! If so then this series of five caches is for you! Your challenge in order to score the final cache is that you have to find the first four to locate the final cache! This is one of the four you must find first! Avast ye landlubbers get to urrr!! Arrrr!
“Calico Jack” Rackham was not a West Coast pirate but since he is credited with designing the Jolly Roger Flag a collection of Pirate Caches must include him. John Rackham was an English Pirate born in 1682 operating in the Caribbean during the 18th Century and was hung for piracy in November 1720 in Jamaica. He was known as “Calico Jack” due to the bright clothing he wore. Supposedly he was the basic inspiration for Capt. Jack Sparrow. Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia concerning “Calico Jack”.
John "Calico Jack" Rackham is most remembered for two things: (1) the design of his Jolly Roger flag which contributed to the popularization of the design and its association with piracy in popular culture; and (2) employing two of the most notorious female pirates of the age as part of his crew – Mary Read and Anne Bonny (the latter of whom he had whisked away from her husband).
Rackham originally sailed as a crewman for Charles Vane, an English pirate captain. During 1718, Vane refused to attack a French man-of-war, to the dismay of his crew. The crew voted for Rackham (at the time the ship's quartermaster) to depose Vane for cowardice. Vane was cast off in a smaller sloop with a handful of crewmen who had voted against Rackham.
Once gaining the captaincy, "Calico Jack" made a career of plundering small vessels close to shore. This boldness proved to be his undoing. During the autumn of 1720 he cruised near Jamaica, capturing numerous small fishing vessels, and terrorizing fishermen and women along the northern coastline. During November 1720, he came across a small vessel filled with nine English pirates. Soon after, Rackham's ship was attacked by an armed sloop sent by Governor Nicholas Lawes, and was captured. Rackham and his crew were brought to Jamaica, where he and nearly all of his crew members were sentenced to hang.
If you are after Pirate Treasure – Isla De Muerta make sure you get the waypoint on the inside of the cache lid!