first off, you need a stylish looking boat. what are we, savages? nay, PIRATES!!
next, you'll need a crew as insane as you are. you can recruit everyone here at the 'temp
lastly, WEAPONS!

maybe a nice cap'ns quarters too

 

Who hasn't thought of being a pirate at one point or another? Unfortunately it's no longer swashbuckling and sword-play, now it's all machine guns and cruise boats. The whole draw of being a pirate has been corrupted by the modern age. Same goes for most of those fun old "professions". It's all fun and games as a knight or a cowboy until someone decides "Hey, why am I fighting you with a sword? I have a bazooka!".

 

Well adapting to the 21st century lifestyle I'd understand if we'd need to pick up machine guns for pirate to pirate battles but if we take over freighters (possibly shipping over consoles and such or hijacking a nautical enthusiast boat, well I don't see why we can't use swords or any other weapons that strike our fancy...I think it would be the overwhelming number of armed pirates that would help in successfully winning the battle against non pirates. Oh an interesting question, I assume cannons are out so what are the options for ship to ship combat. I don't have access or connections to any rocket launchers or bazookas..is that what I'd need to acquire for this journey?

Assuming they are watching me still, and I do assume that, there is no crime in wanting to commit a crime, nor is there a crime in buying a boat. That is not to say that if I bought a bought it wouldn't arise suspicion but as long as there is no survivors to tell any tales then the feds will have no ammunition to take any acts against me.

 

I believe there are still pirates on China and south-east Asia.. but how was said, they use machine-guns and not swords any more

Anyway.. can I join your crew?

 

You must definitely most certainly wear black eye liner pirates of the Caribbean style. okay.

 

We politely ask them if they wish to partake in a sword fight. If they decline we shoot them with our Blunderbusses.

 

I would suggest purchasing some F-18 Hornets along with some F-35s. This will be our boat.

 

Well the carrier it self is $4.5 Billion USD for the Nimitz carrier in the pic.

As for F-18s, they are $35 Million A piece...

 

Thanks to all the serious replies, some good ships shown! Right now I have one thing preoccupying me from a life of piracy but by 2010 who knows where that will lead you know? And sorry Moots but I am looking for real pirates here...you know what they say about rom pirating, its a gateway to ... well ... sea piracy! I mean robbing freighters is a crime and as Captain, well the loot is what strikes my fancy. The murders and rape would be purely optional to the crew. Well the only real problem I see is that as the world is now fully explored and there are planes and helicopters, again once a survivor said "My boat was hijacked from a ship that looked like this" ... well we'd be sitting ducks. So there are two options, the first is what pirates USED to do and that is give them an option to join my crew. They'd be giving the chores of cleaning and cooking and whatever else is needed on the ship (The lowest in the crew ranking). Then if they refuse there is but only one other options...true it is a sad one but pirates are pirates after all. So far so good, looks like CockroachMan will be my first crew member!

 

If you play that pirate song from Lazy Town I WILL BE THERE