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From: Rick H Kennerly (no email)
Date: Sat Jan 17 2004 - 18:40:51 EST
I tell you, people just love to scare themselves to death. Pirate,
schmirate. The fact is "piracy", what ever that is, is seldom targeted at
small cruisers. For some reason, they prefer to go for the freighters with
20 containers of cigarettes instead of the worn out old cruising boats we
sail.
While more and more people take up cruising (look at the steady increase in
the numbers of cruisers reported by port captains around the world), the
incidents of real piracy--invading a boat, binding or actually killing the
crew, and looting the boat, are uncommonly rare. What passes for piracy in
most crossroads bars is actually just theft--dinghies, outboard, or reaching
through an open porthole to grab the Binocs.
As a friend of mine is about to find out, nowadays the pirates of the
Caribbean all drive travel-lifts.
Rick NH2F
Westsail 32 Xapic
Cabo San Juan, Puerto Rico
www.mouseherder.com/xapic/sleep.html
www.westsail.org
Sail like a Kiwi
Anchor like a Canadian
Live like a Texan
.:.
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