Somalis have repeatedly seized foreigners, even holidaying yachtsmen passing their coast, and freed them for cash.
No one, however, goes over the top like the Russians, the "oligarch-yachtsmen, " as the author calls them.
"Yachtsmen bring their own beds with them, whereas you can't actually do that in a plane, " he said.
The Yachtsmen lost at home to Haverhill Rovers while their championship rivals, Soham Town Rangers and Needham Market, both won.
The Prime Minister's spokesman said Gordon Brown had been kept closely informed of developments and was "pleased" that the yachtsmen had been released.
The Classic draws yachtsmen like Kozlowski and Ronald de Waal , the Dutch-born vice chairman of Saks who owns the equally heart-knocking J-boat Velsheda.
"It was dealt with in a quiet, diplomatic way, which is entirely right, and the result is that the yachtsmen are free, " the spokesman added.
The nine single-handed yachtsmen who set off at different times in 1968, bidding to be the first to sail non-stop around the world, shared knowledge and friendship.
Whole crews were swept overboard and 15 yachtsmen were drowned.
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Built mostly for rich British yachtsmen before World War I, the last of these boats are being hunted down and restored by sailors who are tired of modern carbon-fiber speedsters.
Each crew is made up from two yachtsmen or women, with the challenging task of keeping the yacht travelling as fast as possible whilst maintaining a constant watch day and night.
Since then yachtsmen have built two Ranger replicas (one dubbed Lionheart), and Clark tapped the Royal Huisman yard in the Netherlands to build Hanuman, a heartrendingly beautiful reincarnation of Sopwith's 1937 challenger, Endeavor II.
"Imagine driving a convertible car with a fireman standing on the bonnet and a hose pointed at your face -- that's what it's like on deck, " said Alex Thomson, one of Britain's top yachtsmen.
To race aboard Mariquita is to travel back a century, when wealthy yachtsmen such as King George V and Sir Thomas Lipton dueled through the summer on outsize boats that needed 20 sailors just to leave the dock.
Compiled by the Island Goats Sailing Society, it contains essays, articles and many historic photographs--though none, sadly, that show drunken yachtsmen trying to steal the cannon from old Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island, which they tried to do (unsuccessfully) in 1960.
Also competing were two examples of the 12-meter class that dominated the America's Cup competition in the decades after World War II and an entire fleet of 6-meters--aristocratic racing machines that have been the favorites of such yachtsmen as the kings of Spain, Denmark and Norway.
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