Okay..someone brought up a question concerning plundering so I will go ahead and fess up to my one true act of piracy on the high seas. This is a true story:

Back when I was racing all of the time, sailboat (what else for a pirate), We are at the screwpile race in Solomins Island MD. We had dubbed this race the hangover Regatta because it is sponsored by Puzzlers rum, Mount Gay Rum, Budweiser, and St. Jamison's WHiskey. A little drinking may have taken place at this race....just a little.

We were waiting for a race to begin one day and there was a wind delay (it is a sanctioned race so you have to have at least 5 knots of air to begin a race). We were going around with the engine on and tossing buckets of water on other boats. Then a big problem came up. The beer cooler was getting empty! We are a few miles in the Chesapeake Bay and there was no where to buy beer.

Kugerand, another boat that I have raced on and we were friends with, suddenly took a cooler to the side of the boat and they started draining the water from it. Another approaching boat caught their attention.

I saw my opportunity. I snapped a spare halyard (the ropes that run up the mast to raise the sails with)to my harness (I was a bowman so I wore a harness sometimes in case I had to go aloft to clear a problem on the mast). Grabbed another spare halyard and with the help of the crew I swung over and boarded Kugerand. I hooked the spare halyard to the beer cooler and swang back over to my boat with beer cooler following me behind. We then plundered the booty that was in the cooler and enjoyed our bountiful act of piracy!