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Mexray
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Pirates near San Ignacio Lagoon...???
...this from Lectronic' Latitude....Latitude 38's 'blog'...
http://www.latitude38.com/LectronicLat/2007/0407/Apr11/Apr11...
Surfergirl Shipwrecks
April 11 - San Ignacio, Mexico
Michael Carroll and Carolyn Bowman of the Samson 49 ferro ketch Surfergirl sent us the following disturbing report of their grounding and subsequent
pirate attack.
"On March 10 at 2:30 a.m., Surfergirl, with 140,000 miles under her keel, hit a sandbar and is now beached approximately 10 miles north of Punta Santo
Domingo at the southern end of San Ignacio Lagoon - and has been stripped by pirates! They held my mate and I prisoner for days, while they took all
of our papers and everything they could remove from our home of nine years. We lost all our cash, bank cards, passports, sails, anchors, solar panels,
gen sets, a 14-ft aluminum skiff, and much more.
"I hail from Port Townsend and worked as a shipwright at Catalina Boatyard in Avalon for six years, with trips to San Diego and Mexico aboard
Surfergirl. This was to be a six month trip, with plans to return to Avalon to produce my board game, Crib Sail Racing through West Marine, which was
invented and developed onboard Surfergirl.
"We are trying to re-float our home, but have exhausted our funds. The hull and motor are intact, and we have a promise from the fishing collective at
San Juanico to tow us off with their big shrimp boat if we can pump out the sand and water. We need financial help to do this. We will provide a free
game to anyone for a donation of $100 or more."
If you'd like to help out some cruisers in need, email Michael.
surfergirladventures@yahoo.com
- latitude / ld
...pretty nasty stuff, indeed, for these sailors to be attacked like this in their time of need...modern day looters of the worst kind!
I would hope that if some local approaches any of we Nomads there on the coast with some 'deals' on marine items, that they would refuse the 'deal'
and be able to turn over any such information to some local 'authority', if possible.
[Edited on 4-17-2007 by Mexray]
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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4baja
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arg, a tough situation!
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Tomas Tierra
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Is surfergirl on this board??? I would love to get more details..
Sounds like its near "delgadito"??
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surfer jim
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Scam maybe?.....
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by surfer jim
Scam maybe?..... |
Sumpthin don't sound right. 
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David K
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Yup... my thoughts as well Jim & Dave...
[Edited on 4-17-2007 by David K]
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bajajudy
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Maybe Shari knows something about this.
[Edited on 4-17-2007 by bajajudy]
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vandenberg
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What's the matter with you cynics.?? Get a "free" game and still having doubts??
Shame on you all  
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shari
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Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
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I havent' heard about this at all which is strange...so why did we only hear about it a month later?? I'm gonna do some sluething...ask other cruisers
about it.
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Crusoe
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Yes.....Yes.....Yes..... Could very likely be a scam if it is the same Michael Carroll that use to be married to a real estate sales woman from Todos
Santos and Cabo named Patrica Bourne and lived in El Pescadaro on and off for years.Very doubtful if he put 140k ocean miles on that vessel. Could
have been the previous owners. Watch out for him..... as he has quite the reputation up and down the west coast.
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pangamadness
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Could be a scam? or just a sad situation.
I did see the boat for several days in Mission Bay. I think they may have had some work done in the boat yard before heading south. The boat did not
look in that good of shape and the owner did not have the ability to take care of the boat. I talked to the skipper and he said he worked in a boat
yard in Catalina but was heading south for the winter.
I wonder if they just started taking on water and grounded the vessel before they sank. Then came the locals. I dont believe the part about the
pirates. More like locals striping a boat abandon on the beach.
But it could all be true.
Sad situation.
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Minnow
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I remember reading the same, or similar, story a few years back. The board game strikes a cord.
Proud husband of a legal immigrant.
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Bob and Susan
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i think it may be true...
Michael Carroll has been posting on "lat 38" since Dec 2001
the reference to money was probably a "toung in cheek" way to say "REALLY OUT OF MONEY" to his "friends" on the board
not to "everyone" that reads the internet
...kinda like here...
"yo" get to know people
and pirates....mexray...you'd make a GREAT pirate!!!
catalina island ...off los angeles...has "bucaneer days" every year
lots of "pirates" there during that time
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woody with a view
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a friend was traveling to his home in san juanico a month or two? ago and said when they stopped in Datil to see friends there was a woman
sleeping/unconscious and her companion was out with the locals trying to salvage what they could from their boat that had run aground.
related?
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Capt. George
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anyone see Johnny Depp around?
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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Cypress
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Have taken an item or two off wrecked boats in the past. Thought of it as salvaging.
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexray
They held my mate and I prisoner for days, while they took all of our papers and everything they could remove from our home of nine years.
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That a vessel ran aground and was ransacked is believable. Especially if it were left unguarded and fair game. The prisoner/hostage thing is a bit of
a stretch.
[Edited on 4-19-2007 by Dave]
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nobaddays
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Yea and the pirates are all hiding in Cabo !!!!!
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bancoduo
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They pose as silver haired old ladies selling timeshares.
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pointsurfbaja
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Lent him a friends divelight
This couple are definitely on hard times. I was in San Juanico(pacific) at the end of march for just a few days and Michael came and asked for some
help. I gave him some t=shirts and stuff to repair a surfboard and borrowed a dive light from a friend so he would have light in the hold while he
salvaged what he could. He has been working getting stuff out using a panga and a hooka. Last I saw him he had some glimmer of hope. His boat is
off el Datil and he has a game plan. He asked to contact my bro. about the game and getting it produced overseas since my bro. already works over
there. He said all the plans and drawings and rules for the game were on his computer that went down with the ship. He said a family member has an
actual prototype that he made and that he'll be getting that back to reverse engineer it back into a production ready format.
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