Leighb
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Does that mean that the scrotes have been caught? If so good result.
River Hamble Break Ins
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Does that mean that the scrotes have been caught? If so good result.
Seajet
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jonic
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Sadly it has happened again this Thursday night just gone. Not to ours as we have moved away, but to 8 other boats nearby on the moorings just downstream of the Jolly Sailor at Bursledon opposite Swanwick.
This time it's not just break-ins and theft, but also a lot of random slashing and stabbing of sprayhoods, cockpit tents and saloon seating and ransacking of interiors.
Even a liferaft let off and sent down the river with knife slashings.
It looks like they are spending quite a lot of time onboard each boat as well, food wrappers have been left in various boats.
This is the 3rd or 4th incident recently.
This time it's not just break-ins and theft, but also a lot of random slashing and stabbing of sprayhoods, cockpit tents and saloon seating and ransacking of interiors.
Even a liferaft let off and sent down the river with knife slashings.
It looks like they are spending quite a lot of time onboard each boat as well, food wrappers have been left in various boats.
This is the 3rd or 4th incident recently.
matt1
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This is really bad news. I had a dinghy vandalised and cast adrift from the slipway at lands end some years ago and now pay (handsomely!) to keep it in a marina. Given the issues appear to be confined to this area, it seems like something may need to be done with the local dinghy storage. My guess is these thiefs / vandals don't own a dinghy and are probably "borrowing" them from the local slipways.
I've been associated with the river for getting on for 40 years and never seen a problem - how sad
I've been associated with the river for getting on for 40 years and never seen a problem - how sad
jonic
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Yes, my understanding is they are taking dinghies from Lands End to get out to the boats.
matt1
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The Police were very good with my dinghy incident and put some effort into finding out who it was (or at least having a good idea). Unfortunately there were unable to take it further due to a lack of evidence. It's probably time to outlaw keeping dinghies there (there aren't many left now anyway).
Praxinoscope
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Back in the early 70’s when a couple of friends and me moved up from our mirror dinghy to a Leisure 17 we really did sail on a shoe-string, for our Summer holiday we sailed from our mooring in Mudeford down to Torquay and back, on the last night of the holiday we moored off Swanage and went ashore for a few pints. Before the holiday we had just found enough cash to buy a Campari inflatable for use as a tender.
Unfortunately there was an obvious manufacturing fault with this inflatable as every day we had to stick at least two or three more patches on it where it started to leak air, by the end of the two weeks holiday the damn thing looked as if it had smallpox. Still we had decide to return it to the chandlers where we purchased it straight after the holiday. Having rowed ashore we left it tied up on shore ready for our return after our visit to the pub, but on our return no inflatable, obviously been nicked, our only satisfaction at that moment, was the thought that those who had nicked it would have to spend more than it’s value in patches to keep it afloat, and we would just claim off the insurance.
Even better! A couple of weekends later we were backin the pub in Swanage when the barman regaled us with a tale of two young lads who had ‘borrowed’ a Campari inflatable a couple of weeks earlier and had to be rescued because it had deflated whilst they were playing around in it.
It could only have been our ‘Yellow Péril’ that they nicked.
Needless to say we felt a great deal of satisfaction added to which the insurance paid up for the loss, we added some extra to the pot and bought ourselves an Avon.
Unfortunately there was an obvious manufacturing fault with this inflatable as every day we had to stick at least two or three more patches on it where it started to leak air, by the end of the two weeks holiday the damn thing looked as if it had smallpox. Still we had decide to return it to the chandlers where we purchased it straight after the holiday. Having rowed ashore we left it tied up on shore ready for our return after our visit to the pub, but on our return no inflatable, obviously been nicked, our only satisfaction at that moment, was the thought that those who had nicked it would have to spend more than it’s value in patches to keep it afloat, and we would just claim off the insurance.
Even better! A couple of weekends later we were backin the pub in Swanage when the barman regaled us with a tale of two young lads who had ‘borrowed’ a Campari inflatable a couple of weeks earlier and had to be rescued because it had deflated whilst they were playing around in it.
It could only have been our ‘Yellow Péril’ that they nicked.
Needless to say we felt a great deal of satisfaction added to which the insurance paid up for the loss, we added some extra to the pot and bought ourselves an Avon.
olam
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Odd night for them to pick.
I got back to my mooring just up from there about 22.00 hrs and it was blowing hard and raining.
Good cover for them but not easy in a dinghy with just oars.
I got back to my mooring just up from there about 22.00 hrs and it was blowing hard and raining.
Good cover for them but not easy in a dinghy with just oars.
Greenheart
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Boring and grudgeworthy though it is, doesn't the cheapness and cleverness of remote cameras now enable enough people to watch over their boats remotely, to strongly discourage (or effectively prosecute) the criminal delinquents that make these attacks?
Stemar
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There's CCTV at my club, but it did nothing to prevent my OB being stolen. "Male in a dark hoodie, face not visible" would fit half the scrotes in Gosport (the other half are females :nonchalance
, not to mention a smaller number of fine upstanding citizens.
, not to mention a smaller number of fine upstanding citizens.Achosenman
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Did you ever wonder why you see feral youths in hoodies?
Greenheart
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Despite being neither youthful nor especially feral, I hadn't considered the hoodie to be indicative of criminality...
...I've found the garment to be a very comfortable draught-proofing for the neck and ears.
Ironically, mine is called Henry's Top. My old friend Henry lent it to me for a cold walk home, back in 2009...
...and I still wear it, often, but I haven't seen Henry since 2010, so perhaps the hoodie has turned ME into a thief.
:hororr:
...I've found the garment to be a very comfortable draught-proofing for the neck and ears.
Ironically, mine is called Henry's Top. My old friend Henry lent it to me for a cold walk home, back in 2009...
...and I still wear it, often, but I haven't seen Henry since 2010, so perhaps the hoodie has turned ME into a thief.
:hororr:Achosenman
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Despite being neither youthful nor especially feral, I hadn't considered the hoodie to be indicative of criminality...
...I've found the garment to be a very comfortable draught-proofing for the neck and ears.
Ironically, mine is called Henry's Top. My old friend Henry lent it to me for a cold walk home, back in 2009...
...and I still wear it, often, but I haven't seen Henry since 2010, so perhaps the hoodie has turned ME into a thief.
Considering what was written by me, I struggle to see a connection between it and your reply...unless you disengage your brain that is...
Greenheart
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Sorry, I thought it was funny.
You seemed to be suggesting that the garment appeals to people whose actions mayn't be the most law-abiding.
I never knowingly break laws, but my acquisition of my hoodie may itself be as close as I've come.
You seemed to be suggesting that the garment appeals to people whose actions mayn't be the most law-abiding.
I never knowingly break laws, but my acquisition of my hoodie may itself be as close as I've come.
Achosenman
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Sorry, I thought it was funny.
You seemed to be suggesting that the garment appeals to people whose actions mayn't be the most law-abiding.
I never knowingly break laws, but my acquisition of my hoodie may itself be as close as I've come.
The garment does not make anyone a criminal.
It is used by those of ill intent to mask their identity from CCTV. That fact renders many CCTV systems pointless, which was my point.
Greenheart
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That was so obvious, I thought I'd liven it up with humour.
If cameras are so conspicuous or so placed as to be unable to catch images of hooded faces, their positions could be reviewed.
But given how many folk on this forum seem to be retired and admirably obsessed with their boats, I would think a dozen or so in every 100 moorings might be persuaded to spend one night per fortnight awake and aboard, with spotlamp and night-vision googles.
The vulnerability of groups of moorings must be linked to their being unattended. I'd spend a wakeful night on board and call it a pleasure, knowing that just by my being there, moorings within close visual range were less probable targets of crime.
If cameras are so conspicuous or so placed as to be unable to catch images of hooded faces, their positions could be reviewed.
But given how many folk on this forum seem to be retired and admirably obsessed with their boats, I would think a dozen or so in every 100 moorings might be persuaded to spend one night per fortnight awake and aboard, with spotlamp and night-vision googles.
The vulnerability of groups of moorings must be linked to their being unattended. I'd spend a wakeful night on board and call it a pleasure, knowing that just by my being there, moorings within close visual range were less probable targets of crime.
White_Belle
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I've just moved my boat back out to the moorings off Land's End. She's completely stripped out of gear but that doesn't stop one worrying
JumbleDuck
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Proof? Evidence?
Seajet
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Jumbleduck,
it's blindingly obvious that a hoodie will be the garment of choice for n'er do wells ( as well as decent folk but not many I suggest because of the association ).
Our club dinghy pen has reasonable CCTV but when tenders were stolen recently the footage was useless ' guy in hoodie in the dark '.
Dan,
we discuss a night shift rota after every incident, but the reality is a retired yottie is at a disadvatage against desperate scrote/s who may well have knives and may be on drugs - just not worth the risk.
it's blindingly obvious that a hoodie will be the garment of choice for n'er do wells ( as well as decent folk but not many I suggest because of the association ).
Our club dinghy pen has reasonable CCTV but when tenders were stolen recently the footage was useless ' guy in hoodie in the dark '.
Dan,
we discuss a night shift rota after every incident, but the reality is a retired yottie is at a disadvatage against desperate scrote/s who may well have knives and may be on drugs - just not worth the risk.
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jordanbasset
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Fortunately this company puts the name of the n'er do well on the hoodie so they should be easy to track down 
https://www.chargrilled.co.uk/t-shirts/Boris-Johnson-t-shirt.h
https://www.chargrilled.co.uk/t-shirts/Boris-Johnson-t-shirt.h