On Aug 18, 3:30*pm, iBoat Often wrote:
In article 43e735dd-b58b-4f03-8f5c-e218d8e9bcd9@
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On Aug 18, 11:46*am, iBoat Often wrote:
In article 56d5d066-6f67-433b-a741-4e78dee2d5d7
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On Aug 18, 1:31*am, JustWait wrote:
On 8/18/2011 12:06 AM, Wayne B wrote:

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:44:18 -0400, JustWait
*wrote:

On 8/17/2011 10:32 PM, Tim wrote:
On Aug 17, 9:14 pm, Wayne * wrote:
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:15:02 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Aug 17, 8:02 pm, * wrote:
In amongst our conversation, I was talking about "Gandalf the Green",
a sailing vessel that caught my attention in rec.boats.cruising. At
the instant of concern, it was in Tailand and was fine, but another
story caught my eye, and it was this one....

http://www.sailingmagazine.net/compo...e/24-afloat/67...

BTW, I thought it was a 40 ft, sloop. I was wrong. it's 47ft, steel
hulled cutter.

More of the incident.

http://www.sail-world.com/USA/index....8&SRCID=0&ntid...

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No one who values their life or their boat should be sailing in the
Gulf of Aden, with or without a gun. *It's like walking around in a
tough inner city neighborhood at night with a sign that says: "I'm a
tourist".

The penalties for getting caught with an illegal gun in some countries
are almost as severe as a pirate attack. *We met a family last year in
the islands that had a beautiful home made 53 ft sailboat. *The
details and finish were professional in every respect and one of it's
"features" was a hidden/secret gun compartment. *It was empty.

Best thing to do is to stay out of there! I agree. * Ont he other
hand... beautiful boat, though.

Hey, I just had a great idea for a tourist business. You arm the teeth
out of a bunch of vacationing executives and send them out on a "bait
boat" to the gulf. When the pirates come, the executives get to open up
on them with everything they got. You could have a pool for things like
who blew the first pirates head clean off his body, and who killed the
most pirates, who sunk the first pirate vessel, etc...

It would be like a cross between the two tv shows, bait car and cash
cab...

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Great idea, now you just need to find a friendly home port in that
part of the world that won't mind you showing up with a boat load of
weapons and infidels on board.

You could charge extra for training sessions with advanced weaponry
like RPGs and heat seeking missiles.

Yeah, and if the women and kids aren't ready to handle a RPG, give them
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Sounds like you're regressing to your Peter Pan persona.

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The Freak would soil his panties if he ever encountered a real pirate.
He lives in a fantasy land... *he's a Peter Pan wannabe.

I suppose if you encountered 10 guys with automatic weapons, grenades,
etc. that were there to take your boat and your belongings either the
easy way or to kill you and take them that you'd straighten your bow
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There would be no acting involved!