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Avoiding Attacks – Fit Security Hatches

From Glynn Craig - 9 July 2010

One reads of many cruisers being attacked whilst sleeping at an anchorage. Many years ago we ...

Published 13 years ago, updated 6 years ago

Venezuela, Isla de Margarita: Off Porlamar – French Catamaran Armed Robbery – August 2011
On the evening of the 23 August, 2011, between 19:30 and 20:00, five men boarded French catamaran "Bikini", with a French couple on board, and ...

Published 13 years ago, updated 5 years ago

The Gambia: Beware of Pirates Near Banjul
Caution, pirates might try to board your vessel when approaching the deep water buoy outside the port of Banjul, The ...

Published 13 years ago, updated 6 years ago

St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Tobago Cays – Armed Robbery
July 2, 2011, at 10:30 pm A cruising couple were robbed of cash at gun and knifepoint by 2 masked men, who drifted down onto the bow of their yacht ...

Published 13 years ago, updated 6 years ago

Notes on the Organisation of a Convoy
These notes were originally prepared by Tom Sampson of SY Katanne following a super-convoy he organized from Salalah to Aden in January 2010. The ...

Published 13 years ago, updated 6 years ago

Convoys in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea
Tom Sampson, who organised a 27 boat convoy in January 2010 through GOA, sent noonsite the following comment following publication of

Published 13 years ago, updated 6 years ago