The Wateree River has been hit with somewhat of a pirate spirit as two Camden men have almost completed construction of a 50-foot-long, pirate-themed boat on a sandbar located along the river under Interstate 20. Colt Shirley and Matt McCaskill, who refer to themselves as the “Wateree River Pirates,” have been working on the project since January and say they are nearly finished with the boat’s construction. “We came up with the name for the group about five years ago.