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matters how high or low the fruit's hanging. It's like the old saying "I don't have to run faster then the bear, I just have to run faster then you!". As an example, if I was the 6th best boat in the fleet I would feel pretty good about my chances. Figuring a "pirate panga" carries 16 men on board and they attacked the fleet that would leave 3 pirates per boat with 1 left over to run the panga. If there was 10 boats in the fleet then the least attractive 5 boats would make it through. Am I right! It like a school of predatory fish going after a school of sardines and picking out the best ones to eat. So all us low rent, sloppy ass, run down, knucklehead cruisers sailing our old rust buckets can sail on with no fear. We just need to find a bunch of gold platers to sail with.... 
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- Piracy in the Indian Ocean continues... Another sailboat siezed
- Hate to say it, but some of these cruisers would almost appear to be BEGGING to be hijacked...
- And, they're not the only ones...
- Plus they appeared to be travelling solo.
- Seems to me there is a business oportunity for an escort service...
- I just read Fatty Goodlander's "Red Sea Run"
- I read that too, and don't see what good a convoy of unarmed cruisers does
- I believe in this case...
- My point is: How effective is an unarmed convoy as a deterrent against attack?
- As a deterrent... lousy.
- It simply doesn't matter how effective a convoy is. It just
- Who knows if they are or are not?
- My point is: How effective is an unarmed convoy as a deterrent against attack?
- I believe in this case...
- I read that too, and don't see what good a convoy of unarmed cruisers does
- And, they're not the only ones...
- Hate to say it, but some of these cruisers would almost appear to be BEGGING to be hijacked...