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Do what you can within reason and make sure it is well insured. That’s about all you can do.
Securing/locking a dinghy
- Thread starter catlotion
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forelle541
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I’ve got a Pioner 10 dinghy, plastic, can’t find anything to stick to it to mark it.
Greenheart
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Engrave the plastic? Best to use a template, or someone with very steady, regular hand-lettering.
Or just put the lettering on first with a 'permanent' marker, so you can't go wrong when you engrave. Boat-tattooing. ?
Or just put the lettering on first with a 'permanent' marker, so you can't go wrong when you engrave. Boat-tattooing. ?
LadyInBed
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As Penfold says in #8 There's nothing you can attach to a rubber dinghy that will prevent anybody other than the casual thief making off with it; it's not physically possible.
Making it look horrible is a deterrent, others are putting on some repair patches and using a soldering iron to mark the transom with SSR / Your name.
Don't use your boat name as seeing the dinghy ashore tells a thief that the boat is probably unoccupied and to add insult to injury, he may well steal the dinghy to go and rob your boat! ?
I use an eye bolt with the thread end peened to stop the nut being undone. When I leave the dinghy on the shore line I secure it with padlocks and length of rigging wire that has swaged eyes on the ends.
Making it look horrible is a deterrent, others are putting on some repair patches and using a soldering iron to mark the transom with SSR / Your name.
Don't use your boat name as seeing the dinghy ashore tells a thief that the boat is probably unoccupied and to add insult to injury, he may well steal the dinghy to go and rob your boat! ?
I use an eye bolt with the thread end peened to stop the nut being undone. When I leave the dinghy on the shore line I secure it with padlocks and length of rigging wire that has swaged eyes on the ends.
Malish
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and ask your insurance company for their expectation / advice, then you know you are covered..
peter gibbs
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Attaching security to the boat without damaging it is the problem? Most transoms have a drainage plug; can you cut a hole like that well above the waterline on the transom? Thread a piece of 10mm+ cable through, block off with an eye on one end and attach your shore secure to that? Cable this thick is almost impossible to cut without heavy tools and thieves do not like to spend time on the job.
A rigger can make this up from scrap cable in 4 minutes. You could secure by using a threaded end already swaged on with half a botle screw attached, the threads wrecked deliberately to prevent unscrewing. Come sale time........at least youll have an item for sale.
PWG
JumbleDuck
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Inside a tube.Where would you suggest hiding a tracker on an inflatable dinghy?
pvb
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Perhaps easier said than done?
catlotion
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thanks Peter - just the kind of idea I was looking for.
JumbleDuck
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Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on the tracker size and the valve design.
pvb
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About the smallest self-powered tracker I've seen is the AutomatricsM, which is 65mm across.
oldbloke
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As your Honwave has an aluminium floor can you not glue , rivet, weld an eye to that. A chain or cable through the transom, through an eye on the floor and round the boat would rate pretty high on the too much bother ometer. Especially if floor is also painted pink