Cruising sailor tells: How we survived the Somali pirate zone

9:00 PM Mon 25 Apr 2011 GMT

'It may seem like a social event in idyllic surroundings, but these cruising sailors in Ulugan in the Maldives are having one of the most tense cruising meetings ever held' .

As the range and ferocity of Indian Ocean piracy rapidly increased this year, scores of cruising sailors became trapped in the Maldives and India. Their plans of how to transit the danger zone, derived from successful transits of convoys from earlier years, had to be scrapped. What was meant to be the adventure of a lifetime had become a nightmare. Here one cruising sailor, Graeme Mulcahy sailing on Kathleen Love, tells their tale. Ten days of mixed sailing from the Andaman Islands took us ...

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by Graeme Mulcahy, SY Kathleen Love/Sail-World