Piracy at Barranquilla

[Lodesman]

Originally Posted by boatman61

What do you think they did with the useful vessels tied up at the jetties/quays..
Doubt they got into a rowboat and rowed round to seaward to scale and board for dramatic effect.. x 2..

You're seriously reaching.
It's not like fishing skiffs and barges are useful to pirates.
Maybe on the odd chance that a decent sized man-o-war or merchantman just happened to be alongside and didn't feck off at the first sign of attack, they might have sacked it along with rest of the city; it's essentially just another building. That's still not boarding.

[Lodesman]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

In early 1680 68 English pirates under the leadership of Basil Ringrose and Bartholemew Sharp arrived in the vicinity of modern Panama City having walked across the Isthmus of Panama from the Caribbean side.
On St Georges Day, April 23rd, 1680 they paddled some indian canoes out to five Spanish ships at anchor, boarded them , and took the lot.

So there you go. I think that would be called 'boarding from the shore'.

I think that would be called boarding from canoes. Even then if the entirety of the Spanish crews were ashore (unlikely), then it really is just ship theft.

But, hey, we'll give you points for that one.

[rognvald]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

Falkland Islands.
The ratbags boarded while I was ashore as they would have been able to post a lookout and have good notice of my return. A very neat and tidy job, they ignored all the obvious stuff but took things like all my tethers out of the back of a frd locker, all my allen keys - but left the box they had been in, weirdly all my blade fuses went. Most was sailing specific stuff and mission critical. The expensive things in plain site - cameras and binoculars - were left.
Nothing was missed until we were getting her ready for sea some time later by which time they were long gone.

Hi, P,
Definitely scumbag cruisers getting ready to depart. We had a similar experience in a Miami boatyard. They even took my headsail shackle. Better prices than West Marine!
Rognvald

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by Lodesman

You're seriously reaching.
It's not like fishing skiffs and barges are useful to pirates.
Maybe on the odd chance that a decent sized man-o-war or merchantman just happened to be alongside and didn't feck off at the first sign of attack, they might have sacked it along with rest of the city; it's essentially just another building. That's still not boarding.

Whatever...!!!
You stick with your synonym and I'll stay with the definition.
Boarding.. noun. the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft. synonyms: embarkation, embarkment.