Who wouldn’t sign up to cruise the East Indian ocean for a couple of weeks on a really posh yacht, do some serious gamefishing, and have the chance to expend a couple thousand rounds tearing up a bunch of asshats no one will miss anyway? It’s all in international waters anyway, so unless someone’s navy gets their knickers in a twist, I’d be home-free.
Heck, I could probably sell tickets. I’d be rich.
Sign me up. I’d be founder and a first customer to boot. That could do with some pretty serious market research. Tho the income and expenses would be easy to figure out... lesseee...
Superyacht - 30M, modified
BOFORS, 40mm, - 10M each, say, two.
Crew, ex-SOCOM, Blackwater or Executive outcomes, 10 guys, 2.5M/yr
Crew, chef, butler, serving staff, 0.5M/yr
Fuel/Ammo/Beer - 0.25M /yr
Finance the whole thing at, say, 8%, first year of operations. 50M capital investment, 8%, 4M interest, crew, expenses and insurance, ~10M annual operating expenses.
Pricelist - 1 week adventure cruise in pirate infested waters, all-inclusive, for one person, 100k. Say 10 passengers, 1.0M/week. 26 weeks a year. Cool 26M annual revenue. That’s about 61% profit margin.
Boy, that would beat my yearly pheasant hunt all hollow. It's long past time we issued some letters of marque and reprisal.
-ccm