longjohnsilver
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Fingers crossed it’s yours. Please let us know.
Dinghy stolen in Salcombe
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newtothis
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And if it is yours, we need to know if the painter was cut or if your dodgy bitches slipped.
stranded
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Well, well, well - it is indeed ours. No one knows how it got there - best guess is jolly japes by some of the sometimes local yoof, so I think I will take that and stand by my bitches (I may take the kick up the ass to revisit my knot technique, but that should in no way be taken as an admission of guilt?). Thanks again for all the helpful suggestions and encouragement.
HissyFit
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Glad to hear of the positive outcome. Reminds me (though I don't know why) of when Sailing Uma lost their tender on YouTube. It turned up right where it was predicted it would be by the tidal flows. They get it back to Uma and queue the shot of Dan tethering it badly to the wrong side of the cleat.
longjohnsilver
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Where are you now. How are you planning on getting it back?
stranded
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We are now back in Plymouth(?) but they are putting it in their compound and I will pick it up in the car this weekend - unless I can wangle a day to sail down to get it, but I think swmbo and daughter have diy plans for me!
cherod
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dodgy bitches !!!
xyachtdave
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'The rabbit comes out of his hole, goes round the tree and then goes back in again...'
Local youth high jinks....!
Local youth high jinks....!
Sandy
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It will have been those pesky pixies.
HissyFit
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Put the working end through the round turns before the two half hitches, then seize it with a bare conductor taken off the live side of your inverter. ?
cherod
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( dodgy ) bitches that they be
RupertW
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The only way of being sure is doing what I do - alway tie two painters at night especially if some drink has been consumed.
I always padlock the Torqueedo to the dinghy (and through the battery so that can’t be taken separately). I haven’t yet felt the need to actually chain the dinghy to boat or dock and am confident that the magnetic key fob will defeat casual thieves. I don’t know whether it is keyed to that engine alone or whether all the key fobs work with any engine.
longjohnsilver
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I looked more closely just now and there appears to be 3 bags of rubbish in your Zodiac. And it’s tied to another dinghy, not the pontoon. Seems strange.
wiggy
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I lost my dinghy in Salcombe many years ago, I was convinced it had been stolen from the back of the boat until it was reported adrift half way to Plymouth.
A day on buses and a taxi back had us reunited. ?
stranded
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The rubbish is as we left it, ready for the bin and bakery run in the morning. You’d think the cheeky monkeys who borrowed it could at least have put it in the bins!
cherod
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No honour amongst theives , people nowadays
Mudisox
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Check the rubbish and identify the culprit.
Catalina36
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So now all that turned out well, are you going to padlock the thing or go through the same loop? Some of us are all agog.
mainsail1
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Well, I stand by what I said. It wasn't stolen. It drifted away in the night. We have all done it at least once!
dunedin
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We fitted a second painter to our dinghy - originally to spread the load when being towed (one attached the the main towing eye/handle, the other with a bridle to the two side eyes).
But definitely a benefit, as always tied up with two knots. And a system whereby skipper tied one on and mate tied the other. Then shouldn’t come loose ........ but if it does the blame can’t be one sided