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“	Ahoy there, me hearties!	”
—Captain Feathersword's catchphrase

Captain Feathersword
Character Information
Date of Birth	February 16, 1967
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Likes	Sailing Tickling Dancing Laughing Singing Playing bass Playing drums Playing the Guitar Playing keyboard
Dislikes	Wags ignoring him Not being able to tickle anyone with his feathersword
Favorite Song	"Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack)"
First appearance	Wiggle Time!
Latest appearance	The Sound of Christmas
Catchphrase	"Ahoy there, me hearties!" "Well, blow me down!"
Created by	Anthony Field
Portrayed by	Paul Paddick (1995-present) Anthony Field (1993-1995, 1997, 2001, 2021) John Field (Yummy Yummy, Big Red Car) Paul Field (Big Red Car) Brad Carroll (Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas, Dorothy the Dinosaur Series 3) Lachlan Gillespie (Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show!) Victor Valdes (Fruit Salad TV: "Christmas Special")
Years active	1993–present

This article is about the character. For the song, see here.

Captain Feathersword is a friendly pirate captain who owns The S.S Feathersword, and he's Wags the Dog's best friend. Captain Feathersword also has a Friendly Pirate Crew that idolize and have the same bright and cheerful personality as their captain. He has been primarily portrayed by Paul Paddick since 1995, although Anthony Field portrayed him in the very early days of the group.

He was introduced in 1993 on the EP The Adventures Of Captain Feathersword, The Friendly Pirate. He was created by Anthony because he recognized that predominately boys love pirates, but was given a feather sword rather than a normal sword to make him less intimidating to children.

Official Description

Captain Feathersword is a friendly pirate who has a feather as a sword, which he uses to tickle everyone. He has magical, musical pirate buttons, which help the Captain sing in any way and dance like anyone and anything in the world! Whenever he sees his Wiggly friends, he says “Ahoy there, me hearties!”

Performers

Primary

• Paul Paddick (1995–present)
• Anthony Field (1993–1995, 1997, 2001, 2021)

Secondary

• Jeff Fatt (only occasionally on Sundays circa 1993–1994)
• Paul Field (1995)
• John Field (1994–1995)
• Paul Rogers (early 1990s)
• Brad Carroll (2010–11: Dorothy the Dinosaur (TV Series 3) and Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas)
• Lachlan Gillespie (2011, 2013: Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show! and select shows of the Taking Off! Live in Concert tour when Paddick was unavailable)

Tour Understudies

• Ben Murray (2004, some shows of the UK Tour)
• John Martin (2005-06, some shows of the Sailing Around the World Live! tour)
• Dominic Field (2015–present)
• Michael King (2019, some shows of the Wiggle Fun Tour!)

Other Alternates

• Sam Moran (2002 appearance on Celebrity Big Brother)
• Tony Henry (Drumming double in Cold Spaghetti Western)
• Ben Murray (The Dorothy the Dinosaur Show, some portions of The Wiggles Show!, and 2004 appearance on Good Morning Australia)
• Franco Torrelli (A Concert for Holly)
• John Martin (The Wiggles Show! (Latin American Adaptation), The Dorothy the Dinosaur Show, Dorothy the Dinosaur's Dance Party, the 2007 ARIA Awards, and The New Dorothy The Dinosaur Show)
• Kaeng Chan (Lights, Camera, Action! 好戲上場 and The Wiggles Show! (Mandarin Adaptation))
• Samuel McKeown (2021, Sydney Mardi Gras)
• Victor Valdes (2021, Latin American Wiggles Play Time videos and Fruit Salad TV's "Christmas Special")
• Zane Powell (Doing A Handstand music video stunt double)

Appearances

• Wiggle Time!
• Yummy Yummy
• Big Red Car
• Wake Up Jeff!
• Wiggledance!
• The Wiggles Movie
• Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas
• Wiggle Time! (1998)
• Yummy Yummy (1998)
• The Wiggles: Series 1 (all episodes)
• Toot Toot!
• The Wiggles: Series 2 (all episodes)
• The Wiggly Big Show
• Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate
• It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!
• Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party
• Yule Be Wiggling
• Wiggly Safari
• The Wiggles: Series 3 - Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles! (all episodes)
• Wiggle Bay
• Space Dancing!
• Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins!
• Top of the Tots
• Cold Spaghetti Western
• Santa's Rockin'!
• LIVE Hot Potatoes!
• The Wiggles: Series 4 - The Wiggles Show! (all episodes)
• Sailing Around the World
• Here Comes The Big Red Car
• It's Time to Wake Up Jeff!
• Splish Splash Big Red Boat
• The Wiggles: Series 5 - The Wiggles Show! (all episodes)
• Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A.
• Racing to the Rainbow
• Wiggledancing! Live In Concert
• Getting Strong!
• Pop Go The Wiggles
• The Wiggles: Series 6 - Wiggle and Learn (all episodes)
• You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
• Sing a Song of Wiggles
• The Wiggles Go Bananas!
• The Wiggles Big, Big Show!
• Hot Poppin' Popcorn
• Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles
• Let's Eat!
• Ukulele Baby!
• The Wiggles' Big Birthday!
• It's Always Christmas With You!
• Surfer Jeff
• Celebration!
• Taking Off!
• Furry Tales
• Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 1 (all episodes)
• Pumpkin Face
• Go Santa Go!
• Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (2014)
• Apples & Bananas
• Wiggle House
• Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 2 (all episodes)
• Rock & Roll Preschool
• The Wiggles Meet The Orchestra!
• Wiggle Town!
• Dance Dance!
• Nursery Rhymes
• Wiggle Around Australia
• Duets
• Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! (2017)
• Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle! (all episodes)
• The Best of The Wiggles
• The Wiggles Reunion Show
• Nursery Rhymes 2
• Wiggle Pop!
• The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day!
• Party Time!
• The Wiggles' World (all episodes)
• Fun and Games
• Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car!
• We're All Fruit Salad!: The Wiggles' Greatest Hits
• Lullabies with Love
• Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 3 (all episodes)
• Halloween Party
• Super Wiggles
• Fruit Salad Big Show
• Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 4 (all episodes)
• Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 5 (all episodes)
• The Sound of Halloween
• The Sound of Christmas
• Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 6 (all episodes)

Trivia

• Captain is the only human Wiggly Friend, and because of this (along with the fact that out of the Wiggly Friends he spends the most time with the Wiggles), people like to call him the "Fifth Wiggle".
• Starting from 2010, Captain regularly played bass during live concerts, but this has happened less frequently in recent years due to an increased use of touring musicians. Since 2018, Captain (when played by Dominic Field) has also occasionally played the drums during live concerts.
• Captain's crew has changed over the years:
  • His original pirate crew consisted of him, Imran, Penelope and Raj, with the latter three only appearing on the aforementioned EP.
  • The crew's numbers then expanded a bit in the The Wiggles Movie before shrinking back down to three members again in TV Series 2, which featured pirates Rudolf, Charlie, and James (as well as an unnamed additional 4th member seen in "Manners") as his only crewmates.
  • In The Wiggles Show!, his crew grew in numbers again and officially gained the name "The Friendly Pirate Crew", as well as a new outfit change. The FPC were also featured in Racing to the Rainbow, and later made brief appearances in You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (during "Follow The Leader") and Rock & Roll Preschool (during "It's A Tickle Party")
• One of Captain's favorite dances is the reindeer dance from "Here Come The Reindeer".
• Captain's favorite animals include ducks, roosters, horses and camels.
• Despite no longer performing the character after 1995, Anthony Field has briefly reprised the character on a few occasions, including some concerts in 1997, a couple of songs in the late 90s, various audiobooks and PC games in 2001, the miniseries Wiggly Fruit Salad and in a Instagram video featuring Henry the Octopus, Tsehay, John, Simon, Jeff and Dorothy the Dinosaur.
• The Fruit Salad TV Christmas Special was the only video that had a Spanish Captain Feathersword.
• He's the only Wiggly friend to visually have different people portray him because of the understudies, and Anthony and his brothers.
• He's the only Wiggly friend to have an ear pierce.

See Also

• Shirley Shawn the Unicorn
• Dorothy the Dinosaur
• Wags the Dog
• Henry the Octopus
• Officer Beaples

References

Characters Main Characters The Wiggles (current) Anthony Wiggle (since 1991) • Lachy Wiggle (since 2013) • Tsehay Wiggle (since 2021) • Simon Wiggle (since 2013) The Wiggles (secondary) Evie Wiggle (since 2021) • Lucia Wiggle (since 2022) • Caterina Wiggle (since 2022) • John Wiggle (since 2021) The Wiggles (former) Murray Wiggle (1991-2012) • Jeff Wiggle (1991-2012) • Greg Wiggle (1991-2006; 2012) • Phillip Wiggle (1991-1992) • Sam Wiggle (2006-2012) • Emma Wiggle (2013-2021) • Kelly Wiggle (secondary; 2021-2022) The Wiggly Friends Dorothy the Dinosaur (since 1991) • Henry the Octopus (since 1992) • Captain Feathersword (since 1993) • Wags the Dog (since 1995) • Shirley Shawn the Unicorn (since 2019) Supporting Characters Officer Beaples (1997-2000, 2006, 2013-present) • Bok the Hand Puppet (since 2021) • Paloma the Mermaid (since 2021) • The Tree of Wisdom (since 2022) Minor Characters Flora Door (1999-2000, 2021) • Hot-Pots The Oven (1999-2006, 2023) • Foodman (1998, 2004, 2009, 2023) • Foodgirl (2023) • Fiona The Circus Leader (2010) • The Little Wiggles (1997, 1999, 2005-2006, 2015, 2017, 2020) • Magdalena the Mermaid (2002, 2006, 2020) • Professor Singalottasonga (1999, 2005-2006) • Ringo the Ringmaster (2009-2012) • Santa Claus (since 1997) • The Wagettes (1997-1999, 2003) • Wally the Great (1997) • The Wiggly Dancers (since 2000) Selected Guest Stars Christine Anu (2000, 2016) • Morgan Crowley (2001, 2017) • Lee Hawkins (2014) • Paul the Cook (Paul Hester) (1998) • The Irwins - Steve, Terri, Bindi and Robert (2002, 2017, 2024) • Kylie Minogue (2009, 2017) • Robert Rakete (2014-2015, 2021) • Alfonso Rinaldi (2002-2006, 2012) • Al Roker (2011) • Leo Sayer (2008) • Daryl Somers (2011) • Ross Wilson (2003, 2017)