Anchor envy - anyone had one nicked?

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After careful following of the multitude of anchor threads over the last couple of years, I recently took the plunge and acquired a Spade as I dont really trust my Bruce.

Sat in the locker for a while as I hadn't worked out how to get it to fit in and launch from the bow roller without fouling the furler.

Cracked that and now proudly sitting on the bow roller as we head off for a months cruising in S Brittany

First stop in Brehat, decided to pick up a mooring buoy (well I don't want to get my new anchor wet or dirty) and the harbour guy in the dory comes up for a chat , second thing he says is 'nice anchor, those Spades are really good'

This rather freaks out SWMBO as she is now convinced that someone is going to nick it if we leave it on the bow roller

So, preamble over, has anyone heard of someone having a decent anchor nicked while in a marina or on a mooring?
 
People stealing anchors might be like the urban myth.

Mouse the shackle AND make liberal use of a red Loctite. If you use a swivel, use Loctite on it a well. From hard won experience it will be virtually impossible to remove without a blow torch and/or bolt croppers.

Jonathan
 
Bathdave said:
After careful following of the multitude of anchor threads over the last couple of years, I recently took the plunge and acquired a Spade as I dont really trust my Bruce.

Sat in the locker for a while as I hadn't worked out how to get it to fit in and launch from the bow roller without fouling the furler.

Cracked that and now proudly sitting on the bow roller as we head off for a months cruising in S Brittany

First stop in Brehat, decided to pick up a mooring buoy (well I don't want to get my new anchor wet or dirty) and the harbour guy in the dory comes up for a chat , second thing he says is 'nice anchor, those Spades are really good'

This rather freaks out SWMBO as she is now convinced that someone is going to nick it if we leave it on the bow roller

So, preamble over, has anyone heard of someone having a decent anchor nicked while in a marina or on a mooring?
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Nice anchor. Where did you say you were...?
 
The first boat we bought had a poor copy of a CQR on the bow. It was removed immediately and a NG anchor replaced it. The CQR then became a garden ornament outside the garden shed ( I couldn't be bothered to take to dump/scrap merchant). Some local kids ( I assume) then nicked it a few years later. We live a solid hours drive from the sea, so god knows if they knew what it was or if they had any use for it.
 
The joint between anchor and chain sits below the lid of the anchor locker, which can be padlocked. We only do this if we leave the boat for a few weeks in winter. Probably trivial to lever off the lid with a crowbar, but never saw anyone looking funny at our anchor anyways. Unlike our dinghy and outboard!
 
I have normally peined over the end of the anchor shackle partly to ensure it stays secured but also a 16kg anchor permanently attached to 60M of chain is not really going anywhere. So proof against opportunist theft but not the pro tooled up with a portable angle cutter. I leave my Fortress Anchor in a locker when off the boat.
 
stevepick said:
The first boat we bought had a poor copy of a CQR on the bow. It was removed immediately and a NG anchor replaced it. The CQR then became a garden ornament outside the garden shed ( I couldn't be bothered to take to dump/scrap merchant). Some local kids ( I assume) then nicked it a few years later. We live a solid hours drive from the sea, so god knows if they knew what it was or if they had any use for it.
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Perhaps it just dragged.....as usual.
 
This brace of 80kg Ultra anchors left on the ground over winter in a boatyard might make you feel better (although this was in the Med not the UK).

They retail for over £6,000 each !

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stevepick said:
The first boat we bought had a poor copy of a CQR on the bow. It was removed immediately and a NG anchor replaced it. The CQR then became a garden ornament outside the garden shed ( I couldn't be bothered to take to dump/scrap merchant). Some local kids ( I assume) then nicked it a few years later. We live a solid hours drive from the sea, so god knows if they knew what it was or if they had any use for it.
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Well you had more luck than me, when I replaced my CQR (original) I left it on the pontoon with a sign saying free to a good home. After a week it was still there so put it by the skip with the sign still displayed. When I left 10 days later it was still there
 
jordanbasset said:
Well you had more luck than me, when I replaced my CQR (original) I left it on the pontoon with a sign saying free to a good home. After a week it was still there so put it by the skip with the sign still displayed. When I left 10 days later it was still there
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When I put my old seized CQR by the skip in Empuriabrava it was gone 10 minutes later.
 
colind3782 said:
When I put my old seized CQR by the skip in Empuriabrava it was gone 10 minutes later.
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I left my CQR on the boat in the winter mud berth. It went. General feeling it was scrap metal 'collectors' had had it. I also had a Bruce stolen off the dinghy it was anchored with. Dinghy was left pulled half out of the water on a rising tide. We got back just in time to stop it going voyaging. Scrotes!
 
Old Harry,

sorry to hear that; a while ago the same sort of people were reportedly taking the propellors off boats ashore at yards all along the south and west and selling them for scrap, at a tiny fraction of their real value !

I always thought those shiny stainless anchors one sees usually sticking over the pontoons in marinas from mobo's are asking for the same sort of removal service but not heard of it happening.
 
It was 25+ years ago, in chi harbour, too. Re the props, I'd heard that too, and worse they were getting them by cutting through the prop shafts using battery powered angle grinders. Our boatyard the portable grinder was known as the skeleton key mostly used when owners had lost their boat keys.
 
Twice in two years, I had CQRs stolen from the bow roller, while on a Hamble swinging mooring. Both occasions were a few weeks before the Beaulieu Boat Jumble!
 
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