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Piracy!!! Maybe i'll stay home?

5032 Views 24 Replies 16 Participants Last post by Marine1, Dec 31, 2010

tertim

Discussion Starter · Sep 14, 2009

Hello my fellow yachties, just like to share a few thoughts with you about piracy, it seems to invoke strong reactions from those who beleive that the Gulf of Aden, Malacca straights etc, are full of evil brigands waiting to plunder and send you to Davey Jones locker.
Of course being robbed and threathened or in extreme cases being killed is a very serious matter but you are more likely to be attacked walking at night in any big city ( In USA probably shot)
Don't be put off by all the negative stories you here 99% of yachts transit these so called danger areas quite safely.

Tertim

PS My cruising area is the Malacca straights

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Zanshin

· #2 · Sep 14, 2009

I wouldn't worry about those types of posts here. There is a small but very voluble group who discuss piracy as if it were commonplace and widespread. Notably, most of the members of that group have not (and most likely will not) ventured outside of their national waters. Those with first-hand experience of sailing in those waters are rare.

Do you take any particular precautions when sailing around Singapore and Malaysia?

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