BREVARD’S AWARD-WINNING SENIOR NEWSPAPER
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Volume 15 Number 3
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Tanked economy turns preacher into pirate
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senior life Angela Smith
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Melbourne Capt. Daniel Red and his parrot, Capt. Morgan, aboard Red’s pirate ship, The Calypso, docked on the Indian River in downtown Eau Gallie. The ship took two years and $7,000 to build out of scrap materials as a way to provide inspiration to others. By angela smith
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A pirate ship has landed in Melbourne, but no one will be firing cannons or walking the plank. Instead, Capt. Daniel Red welcomes landlubbers aboard. When the country’s economy began to tank several years ago,
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economy started failing, I was doing a lot of marriage counseling and I was getting overwhelmed,” he said. “I began looking around and realized, we have the greatest minds in the world and we can’t figure out how to change the economy?”
Red decided to build a pirate ship and see where it took him. What was once his dream is now docked on the banks of the Indian River in downtown Eau Gallie. Red hopes it will inspire others in a time where he says it matters the most. “I’m a preacher, and when the
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