Bobby Schenk: Weapons on board: "A ludicrous and true story"

Funnily enough, the thing that interests people most in my blue water seminars (apart from finances) is whether and how you should arm yourself on a long voyage. Recently I have been advising against carrying weapons on board, but most people don't realise this. The story of a well-behaved German circumnavigator who was sentenced to eleven and a half years in prison for shooting chickens with a rifle shows where this can lead. In an Islamic prison, that could easily have been his death sentence or "life sentence".

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