REAL question about piracy at sea
 

Just getting into the cruising lifestyle.. saw a lame post here about piracy
on the sea, but it did bring to mind some stories I've heard about problems
people have had, especially in Mexico. My questions a

Is piracy a problem at all really? Or only in certain areas and only
rarely?

Is the government seizure of boats in Mexican water a problem? A family
friend was in Mexican water when his boat was boarded and searched by,
apparently, the Federales. He had a couple of shotguns on board for
protection. They arrested him, charged him with running guns, and extorted
a bunch of money before letting him go, but they kept the boat and the guns.

Common?

Falky foo wrote:
Just getting into the cruising lifestyle.. saw a lame post here about piracy
on the sea, but it did bring to mind some stories I've heard about problems
people have had, especially in Mexico. My questions a

Is piracy a problem at all really? Or only in certain areas and only
rarely?

Is the government seizure of boats in Mexican water a problem? A family
friend was in Mexican water when his boat was boarded and searched by,
apparently, the Federales. He had a couple of shotguns on board for
protection. They arrested him, charged him with running guns, and extorted
a bunch of money before letting him go, but they kept the boat and the guns.

Common?



If what you say happened in Mexico, then that sounds like corruption,
not piracy. :^) Piracy is a problem in certain parts of the world. Go
here for this week's piracy report:
http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy...acy_report.asp


-Jim

"Jim" wrote in message ...
Falky foo wrote:
Just getting into the cruising lifestyle.. saw a lame post here about
piracy
on the sea, but it did bring to mind some stories I've heard about
problems
people have had, especially in Mexico. My questions a

Is piracy a problem at all really? Or only in certain areas and only
rarely?

Is the government seizure of boats in Mexican water a problem? A family
friend was in Mexican water when his boat was boarded and searched by,
apparently, the Federales. He had a couple of shotguns on board for
protection. They arrested him, charged him with running guns, and
extorted
a bunch of money before letting him go, but they kept the boat and the
guns.

Common?



If what you say happened in Mexico, then that sounds like corruption,
not piracy. :^) Piracy is a problem in certain parts of the world. Go
here for this week's piracy report:
http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy...acy_report.asp


-Jim

No, it is well known that if you have undeclared guns (no Mexico permit) on
the boat, you will lose the boat and all gear aboard. Why do you think that
other countries should have no say in their laws?

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:56:12 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:

Just getting into the cruising lifestyle.. saw a lame post here about piracy
on the sea, but it did bring to mind some stories I've heard about problems
people have had, especially in Mexico. My questions a

Is piracy a problem at all really? Or only in certain areas and only
rarely?

Check out http://www.noonsite.com/General/Piracy and
http://www.yachtpiracy.com/en/index.htm

Good sources for current info. Judge for yourself. Mexico may be
rough, but there's plenty rougher.

R.

Thanks for the info. Interestingly, all those maps show the vast majority
of piracy to be concentrated in the equatorial regions and close to land.
When I imagine pirates I think of guys on a tall ship at sea with black
sails and jolly rogers and eye patches with knives held in their teeth, but
I guess most pirates aren't like that anymore. Seems like they make runs on
small speedboats, and out in the Pacific on a cuise to Hawaii or wherever
the chances of running into any are nil.




"rhys" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:56:12 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:

Just getting into the cruising lifestyle.. saw a lame post here about
piracy
on the sea, but it did bring to mind some stories I've heard about
problems
people have had, especially in Mexico. My questions a

Is piracy a problem at all really? Or only in certain areas and only
rarely?

Check out http://www.noonsite.com/General/Piracy and
http://www.yachtpiracy.com/en/index.htm

Good sources for current info. Judge for yourself. Mexico may be
rough, but there's plenty rougher.

R.

You can view a lot of piracy information, including first hand
accounts of attacks on yachts on the cruisng website www.onpassage.com

The address of the pirate page is
http://www.onpassage.com/Emergency_M...te_attacks.htm

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:20:13 -0400, rhys wrote:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:56:12 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:

Just getting into the cruising lifestyle.. saw a lame post here about piracy
on the sea, but it did bring to mind some stories I've heard about problems
people have had, especially in Mexico. My questions a

Is piracy a problem at all really? Or only in certain areas and only
rarely?

Check out http://www.noonsite.com/General/Piracy and
http://www.yachtpiracy.com/en/index.htm

Good sources for current info. Judge for yourself. Mexico may be
rough, but there's plenty rougher.

Albania is a hot bed of piracy?

Albania?

~~ sheesh ~~

All the best,

Tom
--------------

"What the hell's the deal with this newsgroup...
is there a computer terminal in the day room of
some looney bin somewhere?"

Bilgeman - circa 2004

They actually board tankers to rob the crew and steal the tv's radios, etc.
Just because the thugs are on water, they call them pirates, vs. robbers on
land. Somehow it brings to mind those movie images.

--


Keith
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Adult, n.: One old enough to know better.
"Falky foo" wrote in message
om...
Thanks for the info. Interestingly, all those maps show the vast majority
of piracy to be concentrated in the equatorial regions and close to land.
When I imagine pirates I think of guys on a tall ship at sea with black
sails and jolly rogers and eye patches with knives held in their teeth,
but
I guess most pirates aren't like that anymore. Seems like they make runs
on
small speedboats, and out in the Pacific on a cuise to Hawaii or wherever
the chances of running into any are nil.




"rhys" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:56:12 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:

Just getting into the cruising lifestyle.. saw a lame post here about
piracy
on the sea, but it did bring to mind some stories I've heard about
problems
people have had, especially in Mexico. My questions a

Is piracy a problem at all really? Or only in certain areas and only
rarely?

Check out http://www.noonsite.com/General/Piracy and
http://www.yachtpiracy.com/en/index.htm

Good sources for current info. Judge for yourself. Mexico may be
rough, but there's plenty rougher.

R.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:20:13 -0400, rhys wrote:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:56:12 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:

Just getting into the cruising lifestyle.. saw a lame post here about
piracy
on the sea, but it did bring to mind some stories I've heard about
problems
people have had, especially in Mexico. My questions a

Is piracy a problem at all really? Or only in certain areas and only
rarely?

Check out http://www.noonsite.com/General/Piracy and
http://www.yachtpiracy.com/en/index.htm

Good sources for current info. Judge for yourself. Mexico may be
rough, but there's plenty rougher.

Albania is a hot bed of piracy?

Albania?

~~ sheesh ~~

All the best,

Tom
--------------

"What the hell's the deal with this newsgroup...
is there a computer terminal in the day room of
some looney bin somewhere?"

Bilgeman - circa 2004


Albania is the Columbia of Europe. Was odd that Clinton went to bat for
them in the Serb / Albanian conflict. But Clinton did like drugs according
to his brother.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:03:35 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:20:13 -0400, rhys wrote:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:56:12 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:

Just getting into the cruising lifestyle.. saw a lame post here about
piracy
on the sea, but it did bring to mind some stories I've heard about
problems
people have had, especially in Mexico. My questions a

Is piracy a problem at all really? Or only in certain areas and only
rarely?

Check out http://www.noonsite.com/General/Piracy and
http://www.yachtpiracy.com/en/index.htm

Good sources for current info. Judge for yourself. Mexico may be
rough, but there's plenty rougher.

Albania is a hot bed of piracy?

Albania?

~~ sheesh ~~

Albania is the Columbia of Europe. Was odd that Clinton went to bat for
them in the Serb / Albanian conflict. But Clinton did like drugs according
to his brother.

But, but, but.....

There aren't any people IN Albania!! :)

Later,

Tom