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In the Caribbean I think pirates wouldn't be much of a concern, but drug runners probably are. IE as long as you keep a reasonable distance from other boats and don't seem to be prying or spying on them I doubt you'll have people related problems at sea.
Severeal islands are connected by ferries. They are inexpensive and for short distances better than travel by air. You can go from St. Vincent to Grenada or vice versa. To cross a border is no problem, but when you enter by air the authorities want a return ticket. You can buy a flight to another island with Liat and get a refund later.
Plenty of people do this every year in their private yachts. Make sure you know where the marinas opened to non-members are located along your route. When near the bigger islands it might be wise to locate at least two marinas along the shore you will be near in case you get tired before leaving the sight of the island. Some islands are huge. With the exception of Hispaniola, the coastline of every island looks very much as typical island shores. Hispanola's coasts are different because it looks more continental, when you see it you will notice what I'm saying. This is probably why some people say that Hispaniola is the lost Atlantis. Lol
In the Caribbean I think pirates wouldn't be much of a concern, but drug runners probably are. IE as long as you keep a reasonable distance from other boats and don't seem to be prying or spying on them I doubt you'll have people related problems at sea.
There are pirates off the coast of Haiti, the pirates are Haitian themselves. It's quite fitting considering that Haiti's origin is with a group of French pirates that illegally settled in the northwestern section of Hispaniola, which until then had been entirely Spanish for 200 years.
In the movie Pirates of the Caribbean they mention the island of Tortuga because that island, which is off the northern coast of Haiti, was the original home of the real pirates that roamed the Caribbean searching for caravels full of treasure. In fact, in the waters of Haiti and Dominican Republic are still hundreds of Spanish galleons full of gold that sunk in the sea due to violent pirate attacks, wars, and nasty storms. Most of those galleons haven't been found yet and have millions of dollars worth of gold, silver, and other treasures per galleon. Read that again, millions of dollars per sunken galleons. I don't know what's the politics in Haiti regarding anyone that finds any of these boats, but the neighboring Dominican government lets the discoverers keep half of the treasure found and the government takes the other half. Not bad if yo li find $10 million worth of treasure, an instant millionaire! You can't be afraid of whales, sharks, killer whales, octopus, and who knows what else lives deep in those tropical waters.
Anyway, here is a video of real Haitian pirates in their act:
Haiti doesn't have a navy so once you go into Haitian waters, regardless if it's from Jamaica's, Cuba's, Bahamas's, or Dominican Republic's waters, you are basically on your own as if it was the 16th and 17th centuries! It's quite amazing that with time some things never change. Lol
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