Pirates seize yacht
According to international news reports, a four-decker French yacht was seized by pirates on Friday. This is going down right now--apparently the pirates have taken the yacht to a small Somalian port. They're probably going to wait for a ransom offer from the yacht owner or the French government. I am very sorry for the kidnapped crew members, and I hope the French government manages to negotiate for their return without any deaths or injuries. However, at the same time, I'm sitting here with a big, unseemly grin on my face because I was able to head this post "Pirates seize yacht". Stone the crows! The more things change, the more they stay the same. These guys are almost certain to be a bunch of dirty, unromantic thugs with AK-47s, but if you brought Blackbeard forward in time 290 years, he'd be a dirty, unromantic thug with an AK-47 too.
My mom's friend's sister owns a passenger-class sailboat and makes her living taking people on sails around the world, to the Christmas Islands, etc. She has a permanent sunburn and has circled the globe at least twice. I've only met her a few times, and she is always a rakish, intriguing figure to me. One thing I clearly remember her saying when I was younger. "Every so often, someone disappears at sea. Then years later their boat sometimes turns up, stripped and floating keel-upwards."
My mom's friend's sister owns a passenger-class sailboat and makes her living taking people on sails around the world, to the Christmas Islands, etc. She has a permanent sunburn and has circled the globe at least twice. I've only met her a few times, and she is always a rakish, intriguing figure to me. One thing I clearly remember her saying when I was younger. "Every so often, someone disappears at sea. Then years later their boat sometimes turns up, stripped and floating keel-upwards."