2) When in ANY port, keep your business to yourself, don't answer questions, ask questons as an answer. Never admit to being an American, claim Canadian citizenship, they don't tick the people of the world off like we do.

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Don't admit to being British either. They don't like us either.

If you do stand off and you have to bug out, make sure that you are BOW ON TO THEM. If you are stern on or broadside you make a very vunerable simple target. The steersman and your engines are the first things that they are going to shoot at.

So if you do have to boogie, do it right over the top of them.

A few tonnes of boat right in the teeth is going to hurt.