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To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (3509)	5/15/2006 5:04:29 AM
From: Drygulch Dan	Read Replies (1) of 3539

Here;s what Bumfuzzle says about pirates and evading them from when they were in Oman just prior to entering serious piracy waters: "Anyway, sort of on the same subject of group mentality, 6 boats left the harbor together today. This of course is because we are now heading through pirate waters. Really the only true pirated waters in the world. This is about the only place where there have seriously been attacks against small boats. There is about a one day window where we will be sailing through an area that boats get attacked every year (though as far as we know there have been none this season). Most of the people here will be sailing in groups through this area. Personally we can't see the logic in that. If I'm a pirate and I see a group of three sailboats all I think is that I am going to make three times more money than usual. I just can't imagine why three boats together would scare them away. It would be one thing if all boats had weapons. Attacking three boats that were all shooting at you would seem pretty stupid. But hardly anybody is packin' heat out here and the pirates know that from experience. So say for example that Ali and I were traveling in a group of three boats and a pirate boat attacks one of the others, what are we supposed to do about it? We have no gun so can't shoot them, and our boat is made of fiberglass so we can't ram them. So we would run for it, say good luck to our friends and get the hell out of there as fast as we could while the pirates were busy. At least that's what we'd want to do. In truth we'd try to go to their rescue and be robbed ourselves for our troubles. No thanks. We're going to make the passage through pirate territory on our own. We don't need to be worrying about anybody but ourselves. To be honest though we aren't worried at all about pirates. The odds of being attacked are about 1%. In my line of work if somebody gave me a 99% chance of success I would gamble everything I owned on it, so why would this be any different? Anyway, we wanted to get that on the record now since it sounds a little hollow if we talk big once we are safely on the other side. Pirates shmirates. March 8, 2006 "

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