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willyd103
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Initially Posted - 03/04/2010 :  10:07:04  Show Profile
I store my boat for the winter at a local marina and wonder if I should be concerned about theft. You see, I'm going to install some "good" stuff this year and wonder if I should take off the auto-pilot computer/control head before the snow flies? Am I being a nervous Nellie?
Will Dawson
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bear
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Response Posted - 03/04/2010 :  10:39:31  Show Profile
How can you go wrong removing the "expensive" stuff?
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Captdon
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Response Posted - 03/04/2010 :  11:49:15  Show Profile
Remove it, or lower your deductable.......

Don
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superbob
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Response Posted - 03/04/2010 :  12:22:46  Show Profile  Visit superbob's Homepage
Our 250 is berthed in a marina and we sail once or twice a week. Even at that at the end of the day we pack up a lot of easy to remove items that would be expensive to replace off of her. It's no big deal and has become part of our "button her up for the night" routine. Better safe than sorry.
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 03/04/2010 :  20:52:40  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
We remove the GPS, the Handheld GPS, SPOT, VHF Handhelds, Auto-Inflatable PFD's, Binoculars, and any other electronics that could be lifted. Then we lock the companionway hatchboards.

And we keep the boat alongside our house on the trailer!

Nuff said.

Paul
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SEAN
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Response Posted - 03/04/2010 :  21:58:05  Show Profile
I would think its better to keep it above freezing ..i bring the electronics in too .
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 03/05/2010 :  06:19:27  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
I guess it also depends on how secure the marina is.

A friend of ours with a C-27 had his mast stolen off the rack one winter. We figure it was cut up and sold as scrap aluminium. Big enough to be worth something, but small enough to be cut in two and taken on a headache rack in a pickup truck.

In the summer we had a bunch of boats broken into in our home marina. Most of what was taken included tools, handheld electronics, and booze. None of it was recovered.

It would be wide to keep an inventory of what stuff you have on board for insurance claims for these sort of events, otherwise it would be hard to verify with your adjuster just what was taken, and even to figure out whether it was worth placing a claim. Small expensive stuff is hard to keep track of sometimes.
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 03/06/2010 :  19:53:53  Show Profile
So far I've been lucky, however our marina warned customers who were out at the end of the slip fingers to lock their engines to the boat using a few padlocks and cable or chains. This was particularly truer earlier and later in the season when only a few other boats were on the slip.

They said that certain unsavory characters were driving up the river in derelict boats, coming alongside the boats after dark, pulling the motors off the brackets and making off with them.
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ruachwrights
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Response Posted - 03/29/2010 :  12:30:35  Show Profile  Visit ruachwrights's Homepage
Just do it Nike.
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 03/29/2010 :  15:39:40  Show Profile
My son and I store our Shoalwater bay boat at the coast. 2 months ago the boat barn was broken into and the boat stripped of all the fishing gear and electronics that we had accumulated over 3 years. Amazing how much you have to spend to replace it all.
Take your electronics home!
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willyd103
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Response Posted - 04/24/2010 :  06:43:50  Show Profile
Arrived at the boat, took off the wheel cover and discovered that someone took my Edson wheel nut! Lucky I guess cuz I still have the wheel. Just didn't think that this $38 wheel nut would be considered "expensive stuff". Thanks for the advice folks.
-Will Dawson
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