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.
I’d only change one thing. Rather than one $30-million yacht, I’d do 10 3-million yachts. Each with a BOFORS on the foredeck (suitably camouflaged, of course), and a couple of M-60s with rail mounts for cleanup. I’d rotate them through the area a few at a time, so the pirates wouldn’t be able to figure out who was thinning their numbers.
Figure 2-3 at sea at any given time, so that boosts the fuel costs and the number of crew needed (though not by the full amount, since the smaller yachts won’t need the big crew that the big one does), but increases the number of passengers as well. It also increases the number of pirates that can be dealt with during each sailing. Plus, the costs might even be lower, since it’s likely that I could probably round up a sponsor or two due to the interest that so many have in making that area safe again.