Somali pirates

Or a nail to one!

 

Uh... how many people who board you at anchor have AK-47's?

You are confusing reality with movies here, or normal destinations with trying to make the run off Somalia. I don't plan to go to that part of the world, or any parts known for militarized criminals. This is for the people invading your boat while you sleep. This is not some kind of Hollywood gun battle or video game. The invaders aren't going to get enough points to unlock the BFG (video game joke). This is you waking up to people on the boat that don't belong there.

100% close quarters battle.

Rifles are useless for this. For a battle inside a narrow hull, you need something that doesn't shoot through your boat and kill other people, plus is small and can be swung in close quarters. Also handy is being able to kill someone quickly. For those reasons, I use a short barrel 12 gauge pump action shotgun:



That's what's handy for me when traveling in the States. Best defense you can have on a small vessel - funnel invaders and take out one at a time.

People who may choose to break into my boat at night will be met with that plan.

Unless someone has broken into my locked boat, they are of no threat and will never see the gun. You need a very logical brain to handle security situations. Not emotions.

 

This is getting scary. Post after post, I keep agreeing with Frosty.

That is precisely it. You avoid all confrontations and dangerous areas. Then, and only then, when someone boards you, you have a "pirate."

Until you are boarded, friendliness and smiles all around.

Shooting at nearby boats because you are afraid of them makes you a criminal, a murderer and an idiot.

I get tired of reading responses to these kinds of threads from people who don't live at anchor and have never traveled internationally on a boat.

 

You could rig up some sort of alarm to let you know somebody was on board I reckon. Or the screaming and cursing when they stepped on a nail might be a clue it was time to wake up and investigate.

 

Avoid Pittsburgh and Tampa.

 

Old Gasparilla still running around Tampa? My dad was a Tampa boy, and in Gasparilla's crewe when he was a young man before WWII

 

So, what's wrong with that?

 

We'll I don't recall Moses saying anything like "You can have my gun when you pry my cold dead finger off the trigger."

 

...at first glance.

 

Frosty is a proper Englishman who speaks writes and reads the Queen's English (the King is dead). One need only go back in time and read his posts to see how pristine is his grammar on the screen of your monitor.

He misses the England that the "Ya'll come on in" policy destroyed.

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/open-discussion/things-learned-hard-way-40056-3.html#post511625 Note the fine grammar. I won't mention the spelling.

 

Gasparilla arrives soon.

http://gasparillapiratefest.com/index_event.shtml

http://ymkg.com/calendar_public.shtml

 

Oh. Okay. thanks for the info. I thought maybe he was out of sorts because the curry in Thailand wasn't as good as traditional English curry.

 

I don't speak the Queen's english. I speak american english with a southern drawl and regional contractions. Ya'll ain't convertin me neither.

 

Actually, that's the one benefit of running a small, fiberglass boat. Aside from us locking up each night, I can hear a fish slide by the hull. When someone boards, it wakes you right up.

 

When I was a boy, I saw the 1950's Disney version of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", starring James Mason, Peter Lorre, and Kurt Douglas. I admired how Capt. Nemo ran electricity from his nuclear pile thru the copper or bronze hull of the 'Nautilus' and the shocked bone-in-the-nose cannibals went skipping over the side.
I intend trying some DIY anti-fouling paint formulas I found on the net. One was mixing copper powder into epoxy, and another was mixing capucin powder (cayenne pepper) into epoxy for bottom paint. Neither had spetacular results. Required frequent scrubbing to expose more active ingredient. Nobody tried mixing both cayenne and copper into epoxy.
Also I use to buy tiny little bottles of copper paint used to repair the rear window defroster grids in 80's cars. I used it to repair burnt printed circuit computer boards.
I'm thinking on my fake teak decks, painting the holly lines with copper powder paint, and hooking up a hand crank fishing generator similar like you used to could get out of govt surplus field telephones, would send the bare foot cannibals hopping into the drink. I thought of hanging a boarding ladder over for their convenience, and a sign above it in pidgin english and japanese characters, "Please remove shoes. Thankee velly much" would encourage them to obligingly shed their rubber souled Nike's and Reeboks, and a few nails here and there would alert me to their presence, so I could spin the crank on the lil generator.