madPete Posted October 2, 2023 Posted October 2, 2023 I ran across this news article about pirates in San Francisco bay ransacking yachts https://www.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-bay-boaters-forced-080029890.html Aye... Plunder Awaits!
Stynky Tudor Posted October 2, 2023 Posted October 2, 2023 Anchor Outs in San Francisco Bay. Anchor Out's Attacked by Pirates in San Francisco Bay.
Red-Handed Jill Posted January 4 Posted January 4 Well - crap. The estuary channel in Oakland is where our sailboat was berthed. Back when we sailed there, we did see the occasional scuppered boat, but not nearly in those numbers. I'm guessing it's a post-COVID thing.
Stynky Tudor Posted January 15 Posted January 15 The 20 years or so that I lived in the Bay Area, I fantasized about (not paying rent and) parking/living on a boat on the bay. On 1/4/2024 at 2:18 PM, Red-Handed Jill said: we did see the occasional scuppered boat, but not nearly in those numbers. I'm guessing it's a post-COVID thing. I'm sure that COVID has a lot to do with it. But I suspect it's also a reflection on our current situation in the US, the lack of affordable housing, the swell of displaced working people, the unhoused and homeless.
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