Pirate Trip 2008....Plus any Ideas for a September Bender?

I have been taking account of everybodys opinion for our now annual pirate shindig. There have been a couple of folk pushing for York, but the majority seem to favour Whitby. I have found a company that do cruises out of the harbour that can be checked out here. This is still aways off mind, and attention needs to be shifted towards Munich. I reckon we could do with a warm up session before we fly out to Bavaria, and think a piss up in early September is the way to go, but haven't thought up anything since the cricket got to expensive, so feel free to make suggestions.