Sailing in ROUGH SEAS to The Bahamas. Is this our first PIRATE EXPERIENCE?!! [S2:E65]

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We finally say goodbye to the Dominican Republic and sail back to The Bahamas, but the weather doesn’t want to make it easy for us. We have a long swelly sail to Little Inagua. The surprises don’t end there, we have our first potential pirate experience, but it turns out to be the Bahemian Military with no marked uniforms, boarding the boats with a blacked out dingy with AK-47’s. That was an interesting experience… Let us know what you think and how you would’ve dealt with the experience!!

If you want to hear in more detail about what happened, read below!!

Here is a little extra detail into the Military boarding experience we had as we sailed into Little Inagua. As you can see in the episode, we had tied up to Spear It Animal since our windlass was broken and it was a calm night. We noticed the military ship when we came in and there was another yacht anchored above them. We didn’t think much of the ships anchored there and we were running out of sunlight as it was sunset when we were sailing into the bay. We needed to get tied up to Spear It Animal before it got dark. As Nathalie was tying up our stern line to Spear It Animal we hear, “Everyone on the vessels, move to the back of the boat”, as this group of 10-12 men, wearing no uniforms, except bullet proof jackets, were boarding on Spear It Animal’s Port Stern with AK-47’s aimed at us. All four of us were so caught off guard, with no boarding announcement, and we were all preoccupied with tying up ‘The Far Side’ nobody noticed and at this point it was pitch black, with the slightest sliver of light on the horizon. Even the dogs were so off guard they didn’t bark once during the whole experience, first time EVER they’re quiet with strangers around. The men finally announced who they were and split up in two groups spreading out over both boats with their guns. Sascha asked if she could shut off the engine of The Far Side as we didn’t even have time to do that before these men were on the boats and had to be followed into the cabin to turn off the engine.
Then the odd comments started… Nathalie was in a small top and skimpy bottoms and asked if she could change, or put on some shorts. The main guy, who made the comments during the episode, said something along the lines of ” There’s no need, you look fine in what you have on” Next, we were making small talk about the crossing we just had and said we were looking forward to a shower and some warm freshly cooked food. The main officer made another comment along the lines of “You don’t have to wait for us to leave to shower, we don’t mind”. The main guy ended up checking out the guys boat and gave them a really hard time. Luckily the officer who checked out our boat was pretty easy going and quiet which set our nerves at ease ever so slightly. Then as things were wrapping up is when I got the main guy making the comment about staying the night on our boat.

Overall it was a fairly sketchy situation and since we were all so sleep deprived, exhausted from the long, difficult sail, it felt like the whole experience was a dream. We all brainstormed what we would do individually, us two girls on our own mostly, especially with the odd comments that were made. We were so exhausted all we could think was, thank god the boys were there, it most definitely helped diffuse the situation and most definitely deter the officers from other more extreme comments or who knows what else. We still get goosebumps about the ordeal!!

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