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delliottg
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Initially Posted - 12/22/2013 : 23:22:03

Someone climbed around the razor wire on our main dock, made their way down onto the sailboat float & stole a Honda 9.9. The working theory is they tried to get back out the main gate (you need a proximity card to go in or out), found out they couldn't just push the gate open from the inside, carried the engine back down to the dinghy float & tried to steal an inflatable, but found it wouldn't hold him (it's been really cold, so all the inflatables including ours are pretty deflated). So he took a fiberglass dinghy & rowed himself & the outboard to shore & lugged it up the hill to the parking lot. Surprisingly both dinghies were left tied up instead of cast adrift in the river. Ours was not one of the dinghies involved.

The managers asked everyone to check on their boats as they didn't see anything obvious missing. Rita & I dropped a friend off at the airport around 5am on Saturday and went down afterward & found nothing amiss. However, another couple came down on Friday while a new string of razor wire was being installed around the gate & found their Honda gone. It was only three slips down from ours, but they had only hand tightened the clamps, and had no lock. Our Tohatsu is cable locked & the clamps are as tight as I can get them. Now I'm glad I put the cable lock on.

Unfortunately the couple who lost their Honda haven't been down to the marina in something like six months, so it's impossible to know if the working theory above is correct. The outboard could have been stolen months ago.

We now have dusk to dawn security, instead of 10pm to 6am as it's been for years.

When we got there on Saturday morning, we were glad to see the guard actually out walking the docks instead of sitting in the guard shack.

David
C-250 Mainsheet Editor

Sirius Lepak
1997 C-250 WK TR #271 --Seattle area Port Captain --

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redeye
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Response Posted - 12/23/2013 : 12:26:44

Sorry to hear that..

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Chief RA
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Response Posted - 12/23/2013 : 14:38:19

Happy Holidays David and crew. Sorry to hear about scum bags breaking in but glad you made it through unscathed. Chief

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islander
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Response Posted - 12/23/2013 : 15:01:09

He must have REALLY wanted that Honda, At over 100lbs I can barely get mine the 10ft from the boat to the pick up.

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/23/2013 : 15:15:04

Yeah, I'd think the easiest way to go about it would have been to put one of the fiberglass dinghies into the water on the fairway side, row it over just a couple of slips & drop the outboard into it, then row yourself to the other end of the fairway where the water opens up and you have multiple choices of where to go (around the float back toward where you came into the marina, continue up river & out of sight of our marina, or simply go across the river to where you parked your car (if you thought that far ahead)).

Of course first you'd have had to have found the engine that was easiest to steal first.

I've been looking in CL, but since I don't know the exact year, hard to know if it's the stolen one.

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 12/24/2013 : 18:47:26

Really sucks when you have to be on your guard at all times, in spite of reasonable care (guard, razor wire, security), but it's SOP these days. Since Passage lives out on a floating dock all summer, I have a thick cable and hardened steel padlock holding onto our Honda. Of course an adequte bolt cutter would make short work of the countermeasures. But you have to have a boltcutter...
As luck would have it my DPO Mr Stinkpotter installed two huge U-bolts through the transom, so I have a solid anchor for the lock.
I worry about some idiot trying to pry off my companionway crib boards. That would just make a mess and all they'd have to show for themselves would be a cheezy stereo, an old toolset, my Coleman lantern and my porta-pottie!

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 12/24/2013 : 18:59:38

That's why I didn't padlock my sliding hatch on my c25. I didn't leave much inside worth stealing. A thief once broke a $200. window in my car to steal $5.00 worth of shorts and t-shirts in a gym bag.

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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 12/24/2013 : 19:43:53

Wow, a real killer of the Christmas spirit!

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by delliottg
 ...they had only hand tightened the clamps, and had no lock...Unfortunately the couple who lost their Honda haven't been down to the marina in something like six months...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Hmmm, sounds like it was a theft waiting to happen.

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glen
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Response Posted - 12/26/2013 : 07:59:42

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Voyager
 Really sucks when you have to be on your guard at all times, in spite of reasonable care (guard, razor wire, security), but it's SOP these days. Since Passage lives out on a floating dock all summer, I have a thick cable and hardened steel padlock holding onto our Honda. Of course an adequte bolt cutter would make short work of the countermeasures. But you have to have a boltcutter...
As luck would have it my DPO Mr Stinkpotter installed two huge U-bolts through the transom, so I have a solid anchor for the lock.
I worry about some idiot trying to pry off my companionway crib boards. That would just make a mess and all they'd have to show for themselves would be a cheezy stereo, an old toolset, my Coleman lantern and my porta-pottie!
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My hasp is held on with small and short screws. It is meant to keep out the honest people. Should someone pry off the lock, it will pop off with little to no damage to the boards. I figure that if they want in, they will get in. I have been thinking of putting together a system with a sensor, that will turn on some cockpit lights. When someone steps aboard the light may scare them off, or it may give them more light to find there pry bar

, who knows?????????????????

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