Photo: Eight Fathom Bight Cabin...

"Do we Brits need to carry a gun? It's totally alien for us to be armed but the locals here in Hoonah say we are crazy. Not only can we not protect ourselves if we hang out down in Eight Fathom Bight but how have we managed to sail all the way from England without weapons. What about all the other remote bays we've anchored in? How do we feel safe? We reply that we've never encountered any situation when we've felt we've needed weapons... and we wouldn't know how to use them anyhow."

The standup arguments we have are always friendly enough but most Americans we've encountered just don't understand how we cannot contemplate carrying weapons onboard Sänna. Of course, such discussions are primarily with white, middle-Americans... the regular American guy, but here in Hoonah we've been taken to task by a few women too... not the local Tlingit people let me tell you but, well, you know, those more affluent type who somehow feel there's a threat, the ones who need to carry at least small handgun in their glove compartment 'just in case'...

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