Stolen Dinghy in the Staines area

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Just had a phone call from a very upset friend of mine; she'd borrowed my Walker Bay 8' "RID" to do a spot of rowing, and some toe-rag has half-inched it from her slipway.

Still got the oars and sail (I told her to keep the oars seperate, and I kept hold of the sail), so if anyone sees some pi... somebody with a newish looking Walker Bay with a blue anti-foul scuff on the logo on the port side of the boat, and no or non-standard oars, could you please rip their head off and shove it up their fundamental orifice.

And maybe recover my boat.

Thanks

R
 
Sorry to hear about your theft! Got any pictures to post? I wouldn't know
what a Walker Bay looks like and I wager I'm not alone.:(
 
A picture would be handy...

On a related matter, a number of outboards have been nicked recently from various sailing clubs locally. Some had the transoms cut to effect the removal and thus effectively wrote off the boats that provided rescue cover for the dinghies :mad:

Apparently some had trackers and most had DNA paint... hands up who has checked an eBay purchase for DNA paint?!? :rolleyes:

mjcp
 
I can't put any pictures up because I'm stuck in a "motel" near Nottingham (anyone remember the Toby carveries?) but the Walker Bay is distinguishable because it looks like the illegitimate offspring of a dinghy and a rib. It's a hard plastic dinghy with an inflatable tube round the outside (which makes it amazingly stable for an 8' dinghy!!)

Sounds like it's toe-rag season if there's outboards going walkies too :(
 
joking Aside

rr_123 said:
I can't put any pictures up because I'm stuck in a "motel" near Nottingham (anyone remember the Toby carveries?) but the Walker Bay is distinguishable because it looks like the illegitimate offspring of a dinghy and a rib. It's a hard plastic dinghy with an inflatable tube round the outside (which makes it amazingly stable for an 8' dinghy!!)

Sounds like it's toe-rag season if there's outboards going walkies too :(
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Do you not think you may see it again after its done a lap of the staines one way system?

Where would the local folk take it??
 
Feevin gits

I don't know if this ties in, but I was waxing Sea King on the Staines stretch on the 9th & 10th of this month when 3 lads in a dingy type craft (I could not say if it was your model) beers and fags in hand and looking "the type" if you know what I mean..
looked as if they were going to board the boarding platform, they did'nt but they did get greasy little fingers all over the freshly polished hand rail to pull themselves along.
Weird I know but as they were not stopping I did'nt give it much more thought other than wondering why they were hugging the shore..about 20 minutes later they came back on the opposite side still hugging the shore but now only 2 were in there and the other walking on shore.
It may be just by chance but this would make sense if they had no oars..If fact the more I think about the look they gave me..it was as if they were about to get caught. So last seen going up towards Staines then back down again towards Shepperton possibly??
 
RichardShead said:
Where would the local folk take it??
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There are a few "local" traveler parks but I suspect something like this is going to be a bit more organised than to $h1t on their door step... (not easy to hide and you don't want the hassle of selling to someone who will use on the same river you nicked it from):

There was a second hand shop owner and his mate got done recently in Windsor for a string of burglaries in West Sussex... Far enough away to more stuff on but close enough to commute for new "stock"!

mjcp
 
In the 1970s the Old Bill raided a barn in Bedfordshire and found it to be a regular Alladdins Cave of maritime stuff. Literally hundreds of outboards, dinghies, sail winches, and other expensive stuff. Where all this stuff was destined for I never found out. I guess it was just loaded into Containers and shipped off abroad.
About a dozen or so RIBS go missing every week and few are ever recovered. I bet these too are on a Ferry to France within 24 hours, certainly they can't be staying in the UK.
You can receive notifications of the latest thefts by subscribing at http://www.stolenboats.org.uk/ alternatively you can just go look at the site.
 
Marine Reflections said:
I don't know if this ties in, but I was waxing Sea King on the Staines stretch on the 9th & 10th of this month
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Good observations, and I thank you and everyone else!

The dinghy was definitely on my friends slipway on Saturday 14th (I went for a bike ride along the tow-path and saw it) so it was taken between the afternoon of 14th and the afternoon of the 19th

I don't really hold out much hope of seeing it again, but I suppose I thought I'd put it on here for the record and perhaps as a warning that just securing your belongings on your own land with ropes may not be enough!

R
 
I am certain it was there on Wednesday as I have a habit of walking down to the mooring when on the phone (I live next door to where the boat was). I also think it was there on Thursday morning, but cannot be sure. Very sorry this has happened, Rob. It is a nice dinghy.

p.s. nice to see Sea King's owner on here - one of my favourite boats on the reach
 
Gavi said:
I am certain it was there on Wednesday as I have a habit of walking down to the mooring when on the phone (I live next door to where the boat was). I also think it was there on Thursday morning, but cannot be sure. Very sorry this has happened, Rob. It is a nice dinghy.

p.s. nice to see Sea King's owner on here - one of my favourite boats on the reach
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Sorry to say this but Sea King is not mine (I wish) I am just the chap that looks after it.
I have tried to get him on here though, as well as being a perfect gentleman he has years of boating exp.
 
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