Pirates?

Most coastal piracy is by opportunist fishermen, Had a bad day fisshin I suppose. These idiots cut out your Radar screen expecting to get a picture on it with a an antenea attached later back home. Most now know this does'nt work. Nearly all yachty gear is usless if not removed properly. Its very rare for Pirates to do this any more. Even credit cards arent much good to them.
So the try for bigger stuff with a safe. This is probably why 'they' have many times( well I think it is they ) that come up behind me in huge fishing boats at 12 knots to take a look. 'Uhh just another yachtie, lets go look for some thing else'.
Living here on my boat just at the top of malaca straights, I talk to sailors every day that have just come through, its no big deal It just doesnt happen for yachties any more.
As far as catching an outboard!! well they would trim up and remove it in minutes. You get a couple of meters of 8 mm polypropelyne around your prop and a bracket and you will need a hack saw to get the stuff off. If it happens at night it can be a major job. Its qite common round here for fishermen to discard there unwanted/ damaged nets, if you get that stuff on your prop, oooohhh jeees.

I guess its only a bit of fun to fantasies about prates and shooting the bad guys. Go buy your big gun and your big this. When it all happens you will in no way do what you think you will.

 

Funny - I did last time!(and a couple of minutes is all you need!)

 

i bet there are still hooligans patrolling the waters. i dont doubt that there are still pirates. i mean, third world, degraded pirates, but theivery none the less. you know?

 

Ummm... I hate to point this out to you, but those two types are one in the same. They just use different tools and don't dress as weird nowadays. Romanticizing one while cursing the other is somewhat hypocritical.

They are what they are- people who have a job that happens to be illegal and involves getting loot, even if it means killing others. Other than the tools and the apparel, the only real change in the last 300 years is that now they go after private or corporate ships rather than state-sponsored ones. Does that make them any different? Not in my eyes.

 

Pirates ..?

Had been around the Straits of Melaka.."world worst pirate infested area" from Riau right up to Langkawi..this last 30 years plus..in small wooden fishing boat, trawlers, pleasure boat,luxury yacht, tankers..right into the said pirate colony islands of Riau..thanks god I had never met one..been pick pocket twice anyway..right smack in the city..!

 

Dress weird, hell no, they wore the clothing of the day - have you seen some of the things in the high streets of the world today? now they're weird!

 

Modern Semi Pirate

Two years ago a guy wanted me to loan him money to buy a Novia Scotia made white oak commerical fishing boat, 65' to 75' long. It was moored in Aransas Pass Texas and had seen better days, with the superstructure having been modified again and again over it's life. But the wood construction of the hull was beautiful. I went there late one afternoon and the Captain and owner came up on the deck with a little Jack Russell dog so fat that it's stomach almost drug on the ground. He said it was his third boat by that maker. He sailed the carribean and central american area. He said he got back late from a trip to the bar at one carribean port in time to see his second boat disappearing out to sea. Stolen from the dock. He showed me some photos. He came to the Texas coast and bought bicycles by the hundreds and stacked them up into a pile on the deck fifteen to twenty feet high, covered them with tarps and then sold them in the carribean. It would have been untactful of me to bring it up, but from the photo I saw many bikes that would have sold for hundreds of dollars and more in the states. How could he profitably sell them for $75 or $100 in the carribean. The obvious answer was also the answer to what happens to all those bikes that go missing at college campuses in Austin, Dallas, and College Station. I also wondered what exactly he brought back on his backhaul to the states in the way of paying cargo. He told me a couple of other good stories. He was selling the boat because he had gotten a bad diagnosis from MD Anderson and was going back to his hometown in Missouri to the farm he hadn't seen in sixty years to spend his last months. But the kicker here was that he showed me his documents and his name was, cross my heart, William Kidd.

 

Oldish kinda fellah I take it?

 

In his early sixties, not nautical looking at all, looked like a guy you'd bump into at a flea market down in the Rio Grande Valley.

 

After watching Pirates of the Carrabean, Dead Man's Chest, very funny movie, much better than the first, in my opinion, I suggested to my wife that I am tired of being on the right side of the law all the time, and I wanted to take our boat out and do some pirating.

She is so pessamistic, she wants me to explain to her how an old wooden boat that only does 8 knots could actually catch anything. Also she reckons if we are pursued by the authorities we do not sail in the ideal "getaway" craft.

As well as that she pointed out, I don't own any sort of weapon.

Jeez it's hard to get any project off the ground when she's so negative.

At least this thread has enlightened me because there are people who think that if they are attacked by pirates and they ask nicely the pirates will go away.

Therefore conversley I don't need a weapon to be a pirate, if ask nicely they will give me stuff. "Excuse me, hate to bother you but I'm a pirate. Could I have your gold watch? Thanks that's jolly decent of you, and would you mind terribly if I ***** your wife? Thanks heaps that was great. I'll pop off now, enjoy your trip and have a nice day."

Oh well I'll keep dreaming.

 

Piracy

Hoi Poida,

A self respecting pirate would not steal a boat from harbor (toooo easy) but as you are starting in this buzzines i think you will be forgiven. Go steal a fast boat from it's dock and that's one problem solved. As for weapons, some suggestions in this thread can also be used by a firearmless pirate. As for your wife, you will have to reason with her, this will be the hardest part. My girlfriend is great in this respect, last week she kept asking me about various possibilities of bringing down the noisy airplanes over our head.

Good luck with your new career.

 

Don't tell me she just moved to London! I hear a bunch of people just tried to do the same thing

(stop me quick or I'll offend somone- its been a while since I got some negative joke rep )

 

I knew a bloke once who was pirated. The pirates were as previously mentioned extremely polite. After politely taking his watch and valuables the pirate said, 'right I will **** your wife now'. My mate said 'Oh no please dont do that,please',-- His wife said ' shut up-- the nice pirate knows what he is doing.

Yes Im all for politeness and manners in what can be a very embarrasing and some what uncomfortable situation.

It is infact very rude to shout at people and make unecessary demands. It doesnt take much to be polite. A warm smile and a cup of tea and Im sure they will be on there way.

 

you will do that? to a pirate? The world must be changing as everybody trying to get a tea room within their home.

Student

 

Yeah Seaspark we get planes overhead as well but fairly high by the time they get to us. However I did phone them and asked if they could switch their engines off as they are going over.

It was then I learnt that people who sail boats have a better sense of humour than those who fly planes.