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Thanks to all the members of the forum who helped me research the article below. Please stay in touch, your comments and insights are always welcome. Afrikat khoureld@ap.org http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/03/AR2011030302652_2.html

Thanks to everyone on the forum for helping me research the following article on how the yachting community has been affected by piracy. Feedback or comments welcome, and please keep in touch - khoureld@ap.org. AfriKat...

IMB report supplemented by phone conversation. Six armed pirates opened fire and boarded a motorised sailing boat. The Dutch couple on the sailing boat locked themselves in the engine room. The sailing boat was under escort by another vessel with six armed security personal. The security...

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The family reached the Somali coast yesterday afternoon. They'll probably be taken ashore and split up like the Chandlers to prevent a rescue attempt. The questions now I guess are: How will they be split? Will the men be separated from the women? Will there be a fight to control such valuable...

Hello, My name is Katharine Houreld and I am a journalist from the Associated Press in Nairobi. I am researching an article on how Somali pirate attacks are affecting the yachting community and wondered whether anyone here had canceled trips, changed routes or had their yachts shipped as deck...