Secring your tender whilst ashore

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How many of you actually secure your tender whilst you go off into the town?

If so how do you secure it?

Has anyone had theirs stolen?

I have at long last manged to secure a really long security thing that i can lock the rib to the shore with and still have sau 20 foot of tidal range before it becomes a problem.

I am always a bit surprised when I find my rib still there after a little shopping tour etc.
 
I have once (when leaving it several hours) lifted the engine hatch and pulled off a few spark plugs to make it v hard to start.

Round turn and 97 half hitches is moderate additiional deterrent. Also it has keys, dunnit?
 
outboard option

i got a spare v knackered outboat top for ours. I spose you could also whip a spark plug off as well anyway?

Other option is to take the outboard top off entirely. This is the same as propping the boonet up on a car when parked utterly illeaglly - thieves and parking attendants move to the next for a safe nick in both senses of the word.
 
I used to but is a regal PITA.

Also when its really busy there is no metal cleat to secure anything to.

Take the kill cord off and detach the spark plug (if leaving a long time). problem with this modus operandi is that i always forget I did this and get completely b**gered trying to start it in the middle of the night.
 
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I always lock ours even if we have to drag it up the beach to find something solid.

I use this with a very good quality padlock.
The cable is threaded through all the eyelets on the tender and to the outboard which in turn is locked on.
The long cable is not really for fall and rise but to allow others to get to the pontoon after they can float ours out.

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My tender and outboard is nothing special but the thought of returning in the dark after some thwart has nicked it and your boat is anchored 200m away , well after a few beers chances are you would go skinny dipping and probably not make it .

I always try to leave it at the side of a nice one that is unlocked /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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The best way of using old standing rigging is for dinghy security. (in fact it's the only use I've found for the stuff). It's very difficult to cut with a hacksaw and only the very best of bolt croppers will get through it. Padlock one end to the boat/outboard, the other end to something solid and it's as secure as you're likely to be able to get it.

Find a yachtie who is replacing his rigging and talk nicely to him!
 
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Big motorbike lock and chain. Being often moored in non secure bits of river I also lock the rib to the boat via the outboard lock bar.

Until some spod nicked the lock left unused on deck:-(

If ribbing about to get across the river or similar I look for an occupied boat and ask nicely if I can moor the rib to the boat for the estimated duration of my stay. Most boaters are decent types and will allow this in my experience. Offering a glass of something if they care to come over always helps.
 
for people who hate keys

ooh, nother idea would be a combination lock and one of those security multistrand wires sold in b+q with spliced eyelet each end, loop round cleat/outboard and lock up, no prob with extra keys?
 
Some one went joy riding in ours once, from up the Yelm. We just managed to catch the last water taxi back. Found it next day, tied up and outboard lifted. Apparently it happened regular as easy way back from the pub.

My new method has little to do with security, though I'm sure it helps. More to do with not carting dinghy up beach. Rope to anchor. Long rope from anchor to beach. Nuther folding anchor if no where to tie, or tie to rail. Suppose could lock it there. But princple being. The dinghies anchored out, so less some one works it all out and which piece of string to pull. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Mind, it dont always work.
 
We have a scruffy old grp tender (looks that way deliberately) which we keep on beach at Conwy. Usual method of securing is a length of anchor chain and a decent padlock. Recently someone cut it free, used it and left it to drift. Fortunately the boatman from the NW cruising club saw and rescued it. He blamed "fishermen" from liverpool.
 
Make sure the cable/chain what have you is long enough. At least 5m.

In Bequia my dink got pinned under the concrete jetty and the outboard got chewed. All because a large Rib didn't have a long enough wire painter. Had to deflate one of his tubes to get out. Which must have caused a bit of consternation on their return.
 
I use plastic-coated stainless steel multi-strand cable with padlock with hardened hasp and outboard locked to dinghy.
In Fowey, someone tried to pinch it but failed to chop through the cable. I am told that when the Russians are in town (picking up china clay), anything not nailed down will disappear.
Mind you, when I had a soft hasp, the harbour master cut it off, saying the dinghy must not be locked to the pontoon (in the dinghy area) for safety reasons. So I bought a really solid lock with a hardened hasp. He won't do it so easily again.
 
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The best way of using old standing rigging is for dinghy security.
Find a yachtie who is replacing his rigging and talk nicely to him!

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Could this be painted black and snares set, as the tender is speeding away, p*ssed yob 1; gets dragged overboard by his foot. p*ssed yob 2; gets garroted, p*ssed yob 3; is thrown out the boat as the 10 m cable stops the boat dead. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
6mm rigging wire with swaged loops

hole cut in transom near engine, then properly glassed internally etc etc

wire through hole, engine handle and feed back through loop

take other end to cleat etc, feed round and lock off to main wire with padlock

if using a seperate tank etc you can feed through that too
 
Some one nicked one of our tenders from the beach last August from Cala Tarida Ibiza so now I lock my engine in the full tilt position, & we run a wire cable through all the tenders holding them together. It just deters the casual thief. If they really want to nick it they will no matter what you do.
 
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