The Sea Rats Atlantic is an historical maritime crew. Our focus is on sailing,
boat-handling, and the nautical culture of the ages, with a particular emphasis on the late 17th and early 18th century, often referred to as the "Golden Age of Piracy".

The Sea Rats Atlantic consists of three separate entities, which together forms the organization as a whole.

Foremost the crew is comprised of a traveling historical unit that performs shows, battles, and educational demonstrations throughout the east coast and abroad. This makes for the brunt of the yearly activies within the unit's structure.

The second tier of the organization is The Sea Rats Guild, an internal craftsman's society that maintains constant study and hands-on practice of researching and manufacturing the most authentic and accurate representative examples of period material culture. Members are only admitted and inducted when they achieve a skill that is consistent with avid apprenticeship. From there, the new member may pledge to develop trades and skills within their specialty. The Guild is most active during the winter months, when the traveling crew is at rest.

The Guild's practice ranges from making and building: weapons, clothing, accoutrements, blacksmithing, boats, boat repair, rigging, and many other items related to the period. Nearly all of the inventory of material and gear that is utilized by the Sea Rats throughout the year is built with hands of the guild. Thus, our goods are constructed from basic raw materials, and a historical eye is constantly being developed for making these old world goods with an old world feel. Therefore, the ongoing effort is to perform such skills with the techniques and styles of our predecessors. This is a true form of living archaelogy, not just living history, whereby we can recapture and relive the past by reproducing the skills and activities of those craftsmen of long ago.

Finally, the third tier of the group is an ongoing and ever developing storyboard, which encompasses a world that is created around the characters, actions, and aura of the Sea Rats Atlantic. This is the Sea Rats Chronicles. This tier centers on stories and the development of specific historic personas, based not in fantasy, but on solid research and knowledge of actual individuals. Though the specific personas may be fictional, they are based in fact. The Chronicles follow character struggles, group adventures, and the realm of the visionary tale. Many more details will unfold shortly and be released in the near future.

In all we are a humble group, and we continuously strive to push ourselves to reach ever greater heights of historical accuracy, all the while maintaining a healthy sense of good spirit. We admire those that came before us, and are captivated by their mystique, their world, and their culture. At the end of the day, and in the end, The Sea Rats Atlantic is the furthest from perfection, and that's just where we want to be. Only then may we pursue history, always following and always unlocking something it is hiding.