Piracy off the West Coast of Corsica!
- Thread starter Pete R
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Twister_Ken
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It'll be Walton Backwaters next!
mcanderson
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Riviera Radio are reporting that the police are still wondering where the vessel went.
n4585k
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I chartered there a summer ago. Scary how close they're getting!
Daydream believer
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It already has
An Employer of mine was leaving Harwich for Burnham in Mobo on a rough day with wife & kids on board with him steering on the fly bridge
2 jetskis came along side & demanded he stop. Needless to say he did not but went as fast as he could.
Due to the rough sea he could not go fast & the pounding set the kids crying & the wife screaming
The jetski drivers kept trying to get aboard but his wash made it difficult
They gave up & went along the coat to Clacton. He went towards the Swin Spitway
The Jetskis then had another go at him but being calmer he managed to stop them getting alongside as he could go faster
I asked why he did not use radio to call coastguard & he said radio was on lower deck & he was S''t scared & could not stop to go below
When he arrived at Burnham he told local plod who said "if it happened again to tell them"
Jetski blokes were dressed in black & had wetsuit hoods so he could not identify them
Searush
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Probably HMCG. Did they have hobnailed boots & assault rifles?
Sans Bateau
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I've just sent an email to a friend who keeps his boat in the SoF and was planning on sailing to Corsica in the summer, but as he points out, he only has a Bavaria, so he's hoping the pirates might chuck him a few quid, err I mean Euros in sympathy.
SailorBill
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Bloody hell! When was this?
SailorBill
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In which case they should have had some form of visible identification that can be seen from a distance, otherwise sooner or later one of them will come to a sticky end if they behave as per Daydream Believer's post.
Daydream believer
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4 years ago
He was highly embarrassed & found it very upsetting because of the panic state he got into & told few others, but confided in me as he knew I sailed there regularly & felt that a yacht would be easy prey
The fact that they came back for a second go was a real frightener
SailorBill
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Ah, thankfully not recent and not repeated, AFAIK.
Norman_E
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I like this bit: "the pirates loaded then them into one of the yacht’s life boats and set them adrift in the Mediterranean Sea. " How many lifeboats does your yacht have?
Quite possibly the yacht has been taken to use for people smuggling. A friend sold his yacht in Turkey a few years ago, and the next thing he heard of it was a call from the police, because it had been stolen from the new owner before the latter had changed the registration and had turned up some months later being used by people traffickers.
Quite possibly the yacht has been taken to use for people smuggling. A friend sold his yacht in Turkey a few years ago, and the next thing he heard of it was a call from the police, because it had been stolen from the new owner before the latter had changed the registration and had turned up some months later being used by people traffickers.
