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Woodland Hills · 15-05-2019, 08:03

We met some folks who left their boat at Nettles Island Marina and returned after two weeks to find that over 500 gallons of diesel was missing! Of course nobody saw anything.........

Another couple had a brand new set of 6 1 inch black mooring lines taken while they were hauled out in a boatyard in Ft Pierce.

sailorboy1 · 15-05-2019, 08:14

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Originally Posted by SailAwy

Really though, what kind of miserable, desperate prick takes someones dock line?

Some people sure do suck.

Boat scum tend to collect more where boats are

svmariane · 15-05-2019, 15:06

Not to turn this into a gun thread, but just food for thought: Guard Dog!

picklesandjesse · 15-05-2019, 15:24

I changed props in Kemah Texas and left the old fixed 3 blade near the bow for a couple of hours. It went for a walk.

But I lost a lot of stuff a few years before in Port Moresby PNG. He was caught aboard the boat but knew my name and said he was getting some things for me !!! ha ha.

SV Siren · 16-05-2019, 05:01

Speaking of dock lines, Defender has some on sale right now at 50% off select lines, 3 strand.

landsend · 16-05-2019, 05:14

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Originally Posted by WindwardPrinces

Once I had a 45 lb anchor stolen, and substituted with a 35 lb anchor (the new anchor didn't reach the chain).

When I investigated, it was on the Island Packet next to my boat.

He probably thought I didn't notice, and I never got the anchor back. I thought about confronting him, but I had to leave the boat for extended periods, and the anchor was a cheaper price to pay than any other type of retribution.

Still bugs me when I think of it, but it was part of the price of having to leave a boat unattended, and I did learn a lesson about doing that.

And you didn't take your own anchor back?

knot smart · 16-05-2019, 10:51

I hear ya, some jerk off took my 3/4 dockline off the boat at the boat yard.. It reminds me of when my son and I sailed up to Newport and someone stole my bumpers and my nav lights off the dinghy at Bannister Wharf. I used to think the Sailing Community was apart from the General Public in that those type of shenanigans would never happen. Not so much

svmariane · 16-05-2019, 17:20

Lots of tales from folk who've had stuff grow legs. Happened to me more than once. Oh, well.

Maybe the moral is if you can't afford to leave it attended you'd best be able to afford to replace it. I don't know. On another subject, there's this one pesky grandkid of mine who I wouldn't mind leaving unattended on your boat for awhile... Heck, I'll even pay for the pizza and coke and transportation (one way).

Lost Horizons · 16-05-2019, 20:27

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Originally Posted by svmariane

How about using 3/8 #10 gauge

10 gauge is inhumane. A recoil may hurt you. Suggest 12 gauge.

AKA-None · 17-05-2019, 06:10

With 7 billion people on the planet you will run into those who will take what isn’t theirs

Fiveslide · 17-05-2019, 06:16

My first apartment was, uhm, on the wrong side of the tracks, let's say. You didn't have to haul anything to the dump. You simply had to leave it outside, it would disappear. Didn't matter what type of junk it may be, it'd be gone.

I started out chaining my motorcycle to the building stairs, but eventually rented a storage unit for it. All they had to do to steal it was saw through a 4"x4" post, soon enough they would have figured that out.

anthem00 · 17-05-2019, 08:12

A few years ago, I had a pompanette helm chair (have 2 on the flybridge) stolen. It sure wasn’t weather that blew it out of its pedestal and over. And I still haven’t replaced it because I need 2 now - apparently pompanette stopped making mine about 8 years ago.

I’ve also had my boat broken in to when it was hauled out for the winter. They stole my binoculars and tool chest.

montenido · 17-05-2019, 08:43

I'm sorry to hear about the dock lines. I left my new Costco water hose coiled inside my dock step in La Paz while we took our boat out for about a week. When I came back, the hose was gone. I asked around, and apparently a cruiser pulled into my slip to get (steal) water from the dock, then left with my hose. Good hoses are pricey in MX for some reason.

Now, almost 2 years later, there is a boat on my dock with MY hose! No way to prove it other than It has the exact same hardware and clamps on it, and it is 70' instead of the standard 100' (I shortened it). It pisses me off every time I walk past it.

Cheers, Bill

hellosailor · 17-05-2019, 14:55

Only a fool would steal my dock lines. I have them bespoke fitted by Brooks Brothers, who of course put my monogram into the fibers every yard along the length. It eliminates any question of whose dock lines are whose.

Nothing much you can do about it, except hope that the thief gets a wrist or ankle caught up in a loop of the line and karma takes it off.