Peggie, this may be the first post I've ever seen from you that didn't
concern some sort of sea-going toilet...G

You actually hit upon the best solution: hide in plain sight. A touch
of plastic surgery, an industrial "accident" that obscures your
fingerprints, a few grand for the "pro" falsified documents, and then
hide in plain sight. The boat itself should be a Catalina 30...they
are common as muck as my British relatives say.

You ARE Captain Ron, sailing the "Marguritaville" to USVIs after a
messy divorce.

Good grief, talk about safety in numbers....

R.


On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 06:07:30 GMT, Peggie Hall
wrote:

wrote:
THIS IS PURELY HYPOTHETICAL. I have nothing to hide, jeez.

I'm bored enough on a Saturday night to get into this one...

IMO, how easy it would or wouldn't be to just disappear depends on the
circumstances. If you're a fugitive being sought, it might not be that
easy...but if you're someone who just wants to escape his life, it
should be very easy. Just buy a boat without telling anyone...tell your
friends and family that you have to go to Chicago, St, Louis,
Paris--anywhere but out to sea--for a week...set sail instead...giving
you at least a week's head start in a direction no one would ever look
in...and even when they do think of checking on your boat--the one
everyone knows you own--it'll still be in her slip. You could be
anywhere in the world before anyone figured out how or when you left, or
which direction to look. By then you've grown a beard, dyed your hair,
lost 20 lbs...the only thing that might give away your location is any
record of the places in which you've had to show your passport. But if
you're REALLY determined to disappear, it's not that hard these days to
get a new passport under a new name. Unless you're a fugitive, no one
would ever have any reason to question its legitimacy.

The only real issue would be money...but anyone planning such a move
should be smart enough to quietly start transferring funds to an
offshore account in an untraceable manner (convert to cash, deposit only
that cash to offshore account) months or even years ahead of time.

IOW, anyone who really wants to disappear can do it with some planning.