bigwow
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Perhaps it was a young lad on a promise
More thieving
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jerrytug
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1. Random homeless person,care in the community job.
2. If you have been abroad recently,did someone stash some cocaine or heroin in it,for you to unwittingly deliver?
3. Someone just likes your smell.
2. If you have been abroad recently,did someone stash some cocaine or heroin in it,for you to unwittingly deliver?
3. Someone just likes your smell.
tillergirl
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A random homeless person with boltcroppers is a crook. This is a fair row from the causeway. A dory has disappeared as well. May be connected. Only had a thimbleful of fuel in it, said not to be enough to reach me.
Ain't been abroad recently.
What after all that cleaning?
DavidofMersea
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A few months ago there was some strange thieving in the upper Blackwater around Marconi and I think the Blackwater sailing club at Heybridge. The thief was caught on CCTV at Marconi Sailing club but was to far away to be identified. That thief stole unusual things as well as some electronics. He always tidied up afterwards and left the electrical wires he had cut taped off
tillergirl
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I have a copy of the CCTV images of the Marconi incident (if it's the same one although it's more than a few months ago). A smallish sloop came alongside their jetty, came ashore and stole two berth mattresses from a cat that was ashore. Of course I winter at Heybridge and have done for 21 years so the boat is well know up there. The idea that someone from there has targeted me here is not pleasant. The neatness is a strange coincidence. As many on here will know my former trade means that I spent a large number of years looking at crime scenes. In all that time there was only one burglar, John Frederick W****** (you know who you are John) who I could have described as neat. But he never put things back (he got 7 years for burglary back in the days when burglars went to prison). It certainly is an oddity that would get the 'Crackers' of this world excited.
I am going to have a poke around tomorrow.
I am going to have a poke around tomorrow.
Burnham Bob
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did they stay over? we had some stuff nicked from our caravan when someone decided to move in temporarily. they took some inconsequential stuff when they left.
MoodySabre
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That's awful TG.
Some years ago a boat at Thames Estuary YC got trashed but they left a fag end. The DNA was traced and the scrotes got nicked.
Hope you get somewhere M. Cluedo.
The supplier of the cushions may have gone out of business but the fabric may still exist if you know what it was called.
You could send these people a photo and ask http://www.cbscc.co.uk/
Some years ago a boat at Thames Estuary YC got trashed but they left a fag end. The DNA was traced and the scrotes got nicked.
Hope you get somewhere M. Cluedo.
The supplier of the cushions may have gone out of business but the fabric may still exist if you know what it was called.
You could send these people a photo and ask http://www.cbscc.co.uk/
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tillergirl
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Don't think so. Boat is really as I left her apart from the things I've stated. I didn't count the beers I had left as Colin was the last to reach into the cool box but the wine is still there. No sign of the kettle or sink being used and there is no rubbish (I cleared mine away as I left last Thursday). No I sense it was a quick visit. I guess my electricery gizmos are too old to interest whoever it was.
paul-essex
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I have had a red plastic 5lt fuel can taken from mooring rope ( it was being used as a float ) from Marconi s c D row ( dry's out ) some time in the last 2 weeks
pioneer
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Very strange - seems a big risk to take for little gain esp as other items left. I had a mooring rope taken from the pontoon at Fambridge whilst I was away. It's quite distinctive being black with a blue fleck and was part covered in clear tubing to prevent chaff on the pontoon pile. The other mooring lines where untouched.
ChattingLil
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could be even more creepy.... perhaps it's someone with the same boat and upholstery who had damaged said mattress, so targetted you for the specific item. You've just said how difficult it is going to be to get a replacement... maddening.
Cardo
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I would imagine it's someone who has the same type of boat and didn't want to pay to replace certain items they required. If they had intimate knowledge of the workings of the boat and took boat specific items, such as the bunk cushion, then it's likely they have the same type of boat.
If I were you, I'd look around for another boat of the same type. If unattended, have a look through the windows to see if they have your cushion sitting on the bunk!
If I were you, I'd look around for another boat of the same type. If unattended, have a look through the windows to see if they have your cushion sitting on the bunk!
Cardo
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Pah!
Champagne Murphy
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Could he/she have left DNA on the mattress and removed it to avoid detection?
DavidofMersea
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There is a fair chance that if the OP finds a similar boat, it will have a similar mattress, so unless there were marks on the OP mattress, he will not know if it is his. Sorry to be a bit negative, but there might be other clues, such as the torch
DanTribe
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Tiller Girl is not your average mass produced yacht, so unlikely to be a theft for spare parts I would think.
Also, someone walking about with a bunk cushion is going to be pretty conspicuous, so more likely to be for local use.
Perhaps a bit of rough sleeping or clandestine rumpy- pumpy in a local caravan or beach hut?
DavidofMersea
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TG is moored well up Salcot creek and I suspect this was a targeted theft - I would be long way to go to nick any old mattress
oGaryo
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someone you'd nicked in your past profession you mentioned, now on the outside, bored and messing with your mind for a giggle or perceived payback for your part in getting them locked up
tillergirl
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TG is unique; the product of the commissioning owner standing by a Virtue being built in the yard and asking the yard owner to design him a larger yacht than a virtue but with Virtue bow, sheer and knuckle and bits of Maurice Griffiths designs below the waterline. I know this from the owner of the Virtue. So the cushion is just a 6ft 2" cushion but it does have two unique features (which I will keep to myself if you will permit) so that if it did turn up I could conclusively prove it came from TG. The port bunk and as you can see the bunk backs remain in place. So either I match the material for its replacement or I change the covers on what is left. I am left with the conclusion that she was targeted. Wondering a bit about the torch. This was in plastic clips immediately to the right of the hatch entrance and has now gone. I guess that's an obvious place for a torch to be found. What is remarkable is the replacement of the hatch boards and pulling back over of the hatch after the theft.
As David says a long way to go to get a mattress from the beach; I am about 6 moorings away from being the furthest you can get from West Mersea, the thief (if he came from seaward) having passed 90 moored yachts of varied description and value.
I am pretty convinced that nothing happened (to leave DNA) in the boat. Not a locker left open nor anything else disturbed. And of course lots of odds and ends to steal if you wanted a stall at a boat jumble.
As David says a long way to go to get a mattress from the beach; I am about 6 moorings away from being the furthest you can get from West Mersea, the thief (if he came from seaward) having passed 90 moored yachts of varied description and value.
I am pretty convinced that nothing happened (to leave DNA) in the boat. Not a locker left open nor anything else disturbed. And of course lots of odds and ends to steal if you wanted a stall at a boat jumble.
