For buccaneers, swashbucklers and the would-be pirates among Northern Ireland's sea-lovers, Tall Ship Phoenix is offering the opportunity to take to the high seas on a famous old vessel.
Built in 1929 in Denmark, Phoenix carries almost 100 years of history on its sturdy beams and decks and has hosted some A-List faces down through the years.
The general public are being offered the chance to become a part of that history with charter trips on the ship being offered in May.
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Alice Nicholl's fiancé is the captain of the ship and she said this was the perfect chance for anyone who wanted to live their own sea-bound adventure.
"It's a very unique opportunity, because ships like this you usually only see in movies but this summer people can actually stay on her for a week and sail on her," she told Belfast Live.
"You don't have to have any sailing experience but we recommend a basic level of fitness.
"Just because if you do want to get involved with pulling ropes and climbing up the masts, you need to be somewhat fit, but otherwise no, no sailing experience."
Alice said the ship has had some very famous boots walking its weathered boards over the years.
"She's been in quite a few things, it's quite a long list," she said.
"But the most well known ones would be Hornblower, Poldark as well, but the biggest one would be Heart of the Sea, which was a film a few years ago and had Chris Hemsworth and Tom Holland in it.
"So quite a few celebrities have been on her yeah!".
Capable of transporting 15 people in total, the ship also provides five crew for chartered trips, including captain, deckhands and a chef.
Alice said that the voyages tended to be give people memories for life and that the crew would always try and add memorable items to the trip where possible.
"Depending on where you're going and what the weather's doing, the crew will try and do little mini-excursions as well so we have a little dinghy on the boat," she said.
"So depending on where we're at we would either take you to like local sea-caves, have a little look in those.
"If it's nice weather, we'll try to find a cove or a beach and the chef's happy to make a barbecue on the beach, which is amazing when it's sunset, you're on a beach with the pirate ship in the background."
Tall Ship Phoenix has only been docked at Belfast Marina in the past year or so, but Alice says it has attracted plenty of interest at its location between the SSE Arena and Titanic.
"Anytime we're on the deck and people are walking past, you get the usual 'are you a pirate?!' and 'can I have a go on your boat?'," she laughed.
"There's been a lot of interest from people locally which is great to see, because previously she was kept in Cornwall and it's only in the last year she was moved to Belfast as her new home.
"The biggest difference is obviously her appearance, it's quite rare to get ships like that nowadays that are big, wooden, classically rigged ships.
"A lot of vessels nowadays, we're used to seeing motor vessels and yachts, she's obviously like a traditional pirate ship.
"Whenever she's got her sails down, she does have eight sails in total and the main ones are very, very large, so it's certainly very magnificent to see when she does have all of her sails down and you're out on the ocean."
For anyone interested in finding out more about the charter trips, further information is on the Classic Sailing website.
Videography by Harry Bateman.
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