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Brent Swain · 20-04-2008, 18:23

As long as your portholes are too small for anyone to crawl thru and you change all your hatchs for strongly attached aluminium ones ( without plastic picture windows in them) that lock from the inside, it would take several hours for anyone to break into your boat. Big lexan windows can easily be melted.
A piece of 1/4 inch 1x19 rigging wire on a 3/8th inch dia ss hook , so long that you have to close the hatch to get it unhooked, will let you prop your hatches open to let air in but keep intruders out. A wheelhouse with small windows lets you check the decks without having to open the hatches and stick your head out. A small opening port , makes the testicles of any intruder an easy target for your slingshot or speargun.
A plastic clear container full of oxy acetylene or oxy propane, wired to a heating element, tied well up your backstay , connected to an extension cord, led to near your battery ,can easily be set up to go off with a hell of a bang, when you hook the ends to the battery, sending any nighttime intruder overboard in a hurry. There may be a bit of brown stuff to wash off your deck in the morning, but that is a small problem compared to the alternative.
I one heard of a young girl who horrified her parents when she hitchiked a long distance. When they said she could have been raped she said " No Problem. When they asked me where I was going I said" to the best aids clinic in the country."
A lady in the west end of Vancouver was grabbed by a guy at night . She said " Wait a minute. My husband is leaving on a business trip tonite, so why don't you drop by at 9 tonite. He'll be gone by then." The guy showed up and she had the police waiting for him. She didn't think that up on the spur of the moment.
In the boxing club where I train, about 8 guys show up regularly for the workouts. Last fall a woman showed up for the womens workouts and lost 40 lbs in six months. Word spread rapidly, and now about 45 women show up regularly for women only boxing. This also protects them from the most dangerous adversary they are likely to encounter, health problems from inactivity.
It is total gynophobic bullshit to suggest that women can't learn how to protect themselves.
Brent Swain

20-04-2008, 18:23	#8
Brent Swain Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 620	As long as your portholes are too small for anyone to crawl thru and you change all your hatchs for strongly attached aluminium ones ( without plastic picture windows in them) that lock from the inside, it would take several hours for anyone to break into your boat. Big lexan windows can easily be melted. A piece of 1/4 inch 1x19 rigging wire on a 3/8th inch dia ss hook , so long that you have to close the hatch to get it unhooked, will let you prop your hatches open to let air in but keep intruders out. A wheelhouse with small windows lets you check the decks without having to open the hatches and stick your head out. A small opening port , makes the testicles of any intruder an easy target for your slingshot or speargun. A plastic clear container full of oxy acetylene or oxy propane, wired to a heating element, tied well up your backstay , connected to an extension cord, led to near your battery ,can easily be set up to go off with a hell of a bang, when you hook the ends to the battery, sending any nighttime intruder overboard in a hurry. There may be a bit of brown stuff to wash off your deck in the morning, but that is a small problem compared to the alternative. I one heard of a young girl who horrified her parents when she hitchiked a long distance. When they said she could have been raped she said " No Problem. When they asked me where I was going I said" to the best aids clinic in the country." A lady in the west end of Vancouver was grabbed by a guy at night . She said " Wait a minute. My husband is leaving on a business trip tonite, so why don't you drop by at 9 tonite. He'll be gone by then." The guy showed up and she had the police waiting for him. She didn't think that up on the spur of the moment. In the boxing club where I train, about 8 guys show up regularly for the workouts. Last fall a woman showed up for the womens workouts and lost 40 lbs in six months. Word spread rapidly, and now about 45 women show up regularly for women only boxing. This also protects them from the most dangerous adversary they are likely to encounter, health problems from inactivity. It is total gynophobic bullshit to suggest that women can't learn how to protect themselves. Brent Swain __________________ Brent Swain