Re: What pack for bugout bag?


Offbreed wrote:
> vz24_mauser@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Pirates in most parts
> > of the world are the stuff of bad bar stories and what not.
>
> They have been more common in the past, and they are a bit more common
> than you seem to think, especially in the Phillipines, Indonesia, off
> the Arabian Pennensula, Caribbean, and off parts of Central and South
> America.
>
> As I said, most of them work off the beach. They spot someone who looks
> like a potentially profitable target and go after him. They don't sit
> around singing "99 Bottles of Beer" or "Yo Ho Ho, and a Bottle of Rum".
>
> I would expect them to be very common in a long term survival situation.
> Consider those tweakers; What would happen when they run out of cash and
> the people on the pretty boats run out of cops to protect them? What
> would happen if someone on a pretty boat tried anchoring in some third
> world port, and the US government was no longer a force to consider?
>
> "Piracy" is simply armed robbery of someone on a boat. Parrots and eye
> patches are not necessary.

Since I will not be sailing to third world countries or places where
piracy is common I simply don't worry about them. As far as the local
scum, they rob boats anyway, cops or no cops. You simply have to
demonstrate to them that you are not worth the trouble. I haven't had
any problems since I caught a guy stealing an oar out of my dinghy. In
effect I don't bother with paranoid fantasys of pirates, waterborne or
on the beach. My little trimaran says "broke boater" rather than
"yachtsman with money" There are plenty of places to go without heading
to some backwards third world country.

Steve

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