They are indeed a bunch of silly buggers! We did an exercise a few years ago, where they boarded us, and our boarding team played crew for them. They insist on holding you in a silly stress position while they search you, so only have one hand free for 'searching'. How they managed to finger my arse, but miss the marlin spike taped inside my thigh, and the two stanley blades taped round a pound coin in my belt, I'll never know...They were quite slow to get things done, too (introduce themselves, get chatting to the master and crew), so we got a little obstructive to no objection from them, so took it a little further, and promptly got ourselves all roughed up and plasticuffed. They may look funny, and insist on putting a guy in a wetsuit in their boat (because why would someone shoot him??) but they do like a good-natured brawl! Then again, on balance, it takes us a LLOOONNG time to get in the water, but once we are, it all moves quite quickly as far as the boarding team is concerned (command slows us down quite a bit).