A copy of my post from the other thread. I would like to point out that I believe that the risk to actual attack on yacht's in Asian water's is negligable, yet have heard of intimidating action's in Indonesia'n water's. I would also like to point out that some feel that Australian Custom's have been known to use intimidating tactic's on yacht's as well.
After wading through most of these site's recently it would seem that commercial shipping is the target in most cases though.
Saying that, there are cases in the Red Sea area where yachties are targeted.
I am hoping the Malacca Straight's are still safe for non-comercial boat's as after holidaying in Langkawi and Penang areas for 3 week's we are more than keen on baseing our boat up here for an indefinite period.
We spoke to quite a few yachties while there, and eventualy asked the question [ felt like a goose for doing it ] about any attack's heard of.
They all reckoned that they had heard of none that were actual attack's, but a few pannicky types had been approached by boat's, but mostly you are left totally alone by everyone.
A map I got from the ICC site
ICC Commercial Crime Services show's a couple of attempted attack flag's up near Langkawi which is a cause for concern though
They also said that Indonesia was a totally different story and to get through that part of town as far out and as fast as possible as official
looking characters in official
looking boat's have behaved in a not very official way and did make one feel quite uncomfortable at times.
There's no way that i'd consider pulling gun's on any of these guy's though.
I think it's best just to avoid the hotspot's that affect yachties which as mentioned earlier seem to mainly be the Red Sea area and arguably Indonesia.
Dave
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