10/03/2025
🇨🇱File this one under “Things You Don’t See Every Day”. I came across this vessel in the harbour at Coquimbo, Chile. Coquimbo bills itself as the “Pirate Bay of North Chile”, so perhaps this kind of encounter is a regular occurrence there. It reminded me that as much as I enjoy modern travel and the adventure it brings, I have always had a special admiration for the intrepid sailors of old who sailed ships like this and smaller into the unknown. Now that was real adventure! What courage it must have taken, even if some of them were pirates.