YachtPals.com 20 May Pirates in the Seychelles - The Curious Case of Akio YonagoSeychelles - Akio Yonago's story began for YachtPals on May 9th, when we received an email from one of our contacts in Africa, Andrew Mwangura of the SAP (who will be portrayed by none other than Samuel L. Jackson in an upcoming Hollywood film).  We often work with Andrew to separate fact from fiction in regard to the Horn of Africa and Gulf of Aden, and he asked if we had any information about a yacht named Emu II, which had reportedly been captured by Somali pirates.  We fairly quickly traced the story to a newspaper called the Santa Cruz Sentinel, which had recently reported that the yacht Emu II may have been taken by pirates near the Seychelles.  YachtPals contacted the editor of the newspaper, who said he was unaware of the small story which had been published just a few days prior, and could give us no more details.  Thus began our investigation into the Emu II, her skipper Akio Yonago, and his very interesting story. read more Direct Link

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