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Sounds like portions of the Bahamas off Haiti. A mini-14 is a good weapon. Problem is the Bahamians like to search, board, and keep what ever they want. An acquaintance of mine was fishing over there, in the bahamas, not too long ago, we are only 60miles from their waters, illegally. They were boarded by the Bahamians "defence" patrol and one "officer" ripped off the most expensive rod and reel on the boat. Someone said something(stooopid) and got bashed in the face by a bahams officer. Nuff said.

", we are only 60miles from their waters, illegally."

If you're going to do that you need a faster boat. Back in the 70's a friend of my brother's had a large open deck modified cigarette boat. He fished bahamian waters all time and simply outran the patrol boats whenever they approached.

Mini-14's are pretty much crap. The barrel heats up and shooting at 200 yards is a waste of ammo. The only good thing is they are reliable and don't fit into the so-called Assault Weapons category in places like California.

If someone can afford a yacht, they can afford some decent bolt actions and some M1A's, both in .308. Shotguns should be available for all participants.

I've spent quite a bit of time in Bahamian waters over many years, professionally during the 80's, never been boarded yet, though was approached once near Norman's Cay 5 or so years back - the patrol vessel veered away at the last moment on noticing we had kids aboard our 28 Whitewater. I always check in and do the required paperwork, which is what I think you ought to do while a guest in a foreign country. Then, your firearms are registered with another office, at the port of entry. I can imagine our LEO's would not be too friendly to Bahamians illegally fishing Florida waters either, loading up coolers, as Floridians often do in the Bahamas. Bearing in mind what you say, though.

I did once have a crew member busted by a Bahamian constable for smoking dope. Had to fly the guy out of the country pronto to keep him out of Fox Hill. The constable asked for a few books from our on board library, I was glad that's all he wanted - I wouldn't give him my nautical slide rule which he was fascinated by, this was before the days of GPS!

We used to carry an AR 15, 12 ga, and 336 in .35 at least, in the old days. Presently I'm usually content with just a mini.

I own at least one of your fishing rods, had it for quite a while, it's a nice piece of equipment - A 20# conventional rig that I modified for heavy deep jigging - it's been in the Bahamas a lot.

As for the guys in the article, one has to wonder how they justified "yachting" in such a well known pirate corridor. I do admire the way they fought, however.