March 13

The other sailor’s nightmare

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Pirates and not the Johnny Depp-like kind. Read this encounter from "distant horizons" on sailblogs. Sailing at night through the Malacca Strait. Encounters with coast guards that needed bribing, smugglers, fishing boats in the dark and a stand-off with a would-be pirate. This guy's got nerves of steel. Every time my wife and I have the "Come on lets sell everything and sail round the world" conversation her retort is "OK but so long as we don't go anywhere with pirates". We may never leave Long Island Sound.

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