Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Mutanen Espanya Main ya zama maƙasudin burgewa ga 'yan fashin teku, buccaneers, masu zaman kansu da ƙasashe masu yaƙi da Spain, suna neman kama wasu daga cikin waɗannan wadata. Don su kāre wannan dukiyar, an yi amfani da jiragen ruwa masu yawa da aka yi amfani da su a ƙasar Spain. Kungiyoyin jiragen ruwa a cikin manyan jiragen ruwa sun tabbatar da nasara sosai, tare da wasu 'yan misalai masu nasara na manyan hare-haren' yan fashi a cikin Mutanen Espanya Main, kamar kama Cartagena de Indias da Francis Drake ya yi a 1586; kama wani jirgin ruwa na Mutanen Espanya da ke tafiya daga Mexico ta Kamfanin Yammacin Indiya na Holland a 1628; kama Chagres da Panama City da Henry Morgan a 1670-71; da Raid a Cartagena
da Faransawa suka yi a shekara ta 1697. 'Yan fashin teku da ke aiki a yankin sun haɗa da Dutchman Laurens de Graaf, wanda ya mamaye Veracruz a 1683 da Cartagena a 1697.