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Originally Posted by windsaloft  :=) Pmy only observation in travels throughout the world is that if someone is seeking "targets", they will generally go for a *perceived* easier one, and women do fall into that category, esp. in non-US countries. I find that it is this reason, not that I am not confident in taking care of myself, that I wonder these things. Frankly, the situations I've been in regarding being accosted made no difference whether I were male or female --- but the fact that the event happened in the first place was because of the *perception* that as a woman, I am an "easier" target.
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Good thinking! You're right about this. When I lived in Manhattan, it was always purse snatchings and that type of thing because women were perceived as easier targets.
Not knowing how old you are, do you remember the TV show Bosom Buddies with Tom Hanks... think the opposite.
ha ha
Seriously, being a woman could give you one advantage though. If a lazy criminal thinks you're an easy target, but because you have gone through the effort to come up with a good security plan for your boat you are not an easy target after all, he'll have a much more difficult time with his plan.
Still... strength in numbers. If you have more than one person on the boat, I think someone who was going to physically harm the crew would go after a singlehander first.
PS: I think your electrified lifelines (as well as tacks, machetes, flare guns, and any other number of "passive" weapons) were all discusssed in the firearms threads.