"Roger Long" wrote in news:g6av74$fct$1
@registered.motzarella.org:

Here's a useful bit of information for cruise planning:

On Jul 25, 6:20 am, "Roger Long" wrote:
Here's a useful bit of information for cruise planning:

With the exception of the reports of piracy against yachts in S America,
I'm unclear as to how useful your information is for cruise planning,
Roger.

Two points:

1) Official piracy against yachts. The ICC page to which you linked says
zero about the government-run piracy against yachts that occurs in
Australia, for example, where foreign cruisers have been financially
ruined by 'legal' action by government agencies. Cruisers have been told,
for instance, by Australian officials in New Caledonia that they need
only to advise Australian officials 48 hours before arrival but then, on
arrival, they have been prosecuted and ruined for not giving 96 hours
notice. See http://www.thecoastalpassage.com.au/manzaris.html

2) Poor correlation between piracy against cargo vessels and acts against
private yachts. In the case of Southeast Asia and the Malacca Straits in
particular, many cruisers have heard stories about piracy (piracy against
cargo ships definitely takes place in the Malacca Straits: some of it is
just opportunistic theft, other cases are of inside jobs - ie within a
shipping company - to steal high value cargo). But there have been only
two cases of piracy against cruisers in SE Asia in a decade, and only one
of those was well substantiated (the other seems to have been a case
where the owner of a vessel wanted to claim against insurance). Cruisers
and their yachts are liable to opportunistic theft in SE Asia (if you
leave your Rolex watch on deck, don't expect it to be there when you come
back), but genuine piracy is v low on the list of risks (lightning strike
is higher).

Cheers

Bil