Should we be buying a battleship instead of a Bavaria?

I recently read of a man who sailed around the world with his family. He had his yacht designed and built specifically for his voyage. It was made of steel to help the chances of it surviving a collision with a steel container that might be floating just beneath the surface of the water. Also he carried a firearm aboard, to use against any pirates that might attempt to board his vessel. Reading about this made me think about whether we were buying the right boat; should we be buying our own battleship instead?

Now our voyage around GB won't quite be the same as a circumnavigation of the world, but all the same.....there may just be some sneaky steel container lurking just below the water surface and exactly in our path. This thought has exercised our minds on several previous occasions during cross-channel passages, especially at night. I do hope we don't have to find out how we would cope!

......and we don't get many pirates around the UK fortunately, so hopefully we won't need any firearms aboard. If any undesirables present themselves, hopefully there will be other effective ways of dealing with them.

We'll just have to hope our luck continues to hold out!