Messing About In Sailboats

Pirate murders spotlight spreading risks | Elaine Bunting's Blog | Yachting World

via www.yachtingworld.com Very good article in Yachtingworld on the dangers of piracy in the Indian Ocean. A friend today asked me why the navies of the world could not deal with the issue. When one realizes that the high risk area is 1.4 million square miles, the answer is pretty clear. The area is too big to control with the current deployed resources. It would take a massive coordinated effort between the navies of major nations and this would undermine anything else these navies are engaged in. Read more →

Get In Shape For the Season The Pirate Way (Not The Somali Kind)

BBC News - Yacht couple rescue 'was bungled'

via news.bbc.co.uk An update on the Chandlers who were captured by Somali pirates last October. You can read the full story here. It's very worrying as they have been separated and are being threatened with execution. Read more →

Chilling Video of British couple captured by Somali pirates

Mike Taylor of Timmynocky shared a link to an article on Yachtpals about the Chandlers, the British couple captured by pirates last month. It's chilling. They are clearly in great distress but keeping a brave face.We obviously all thinking about you and hoping for your safe release. You can read the full article here Read more →

Blog of SV Lynn Rival

Like many sailors I was distressed to hear about the British couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler who were kidnapped by Somali pirates this week. They were on passage from the Seychelles to Tanzania. News of their kidnapping broke after their EPIRB was activated and they posted a brief message on their blog. I visited the blog in the hope that I could leave a message of support but unfortunately this is not enabled. It's worth visiting the blog to understand the route they took. They were clearly as careful as they could be. They came through the Red Sea and along the Southern Arabian Coast in a rally and kept going East to India. After working their way down the Indian coast they left Goa and headed Southwest for the Seychelles. After the Seychelles they were kidnapped in transit to Tanzania. The thing that shocked me was how far from... Read more →