The Phantom Fender Thief.....

[AIDY]

The Phantom Fender Thief of old London Town

Got down to the boat this morning and found that someone had stolen a couple of my fenders. They were roaming fenders just hanging on the non pontoon side. so no weight on them. They were cut off leaving me just the fender rope...

Grrrrrr.... Least SWMBO doesnt have to clean them.... [--word removed--]'s...

Sorry rant over

 

[exfinnsailor]

So your looking for someone who cannot undo a clovehitch then .... Hmmmm
Could be alot of paperwork .. Perhaps the Police could help with your enquiries ... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[raven]

Grrrr!!!

It is really annoying that some folk bother to nick such things as fenders which are not hugely expensive but the loss of which can cause (at best) inconvenience and (at worst) large scale damage to your boat.

Try rigging them up on wires and then connect the wires to a mains supply - make sure of course that you check out all sorts of galvanic reactions and that your anodes are correctly positioned and all that other stuff...... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[jwilson]

Last year it was my mooring pickup buoy that kept getting cut off and nicked. Each time I put a new one on it got stolen - never got to be old enough to look 'not worth pinching'. Gave up and used an empty plastic bottle....

 

[Dave99]

m2m fenders make custom fenders - might be worth investing in a set made up with your boat name etc

 

[snowleopard]

Just go down to the next boat jumble and buy them back again.

 

[ferroboat]

I hate boat jumbles, can't understand what you all see in them. Thieves dens

 

[jerryat]

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m2m fenders make custom fenders - might be worth investing in a set made up with your boat name etc

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They don't need to be m2m, just mark your boats name round the top and bottom (as near the top/bottom holes as possible) in permanent marker pen. We've done this for well over twenty years and have never lost one.

We use a broad tipped pen (black as it happens) and find we need to re-do the name about every three seasons. The whole lot (14 of 'em if we're on the canals) take less than 15 minutes to do, so not a major maintenance job.

Ok, someone could still nick them, but it's something of a deterrent and at least there's a chance you or someone else will spot the anomally if they're on another boat.

 

[snowleopard]

Some of the 2nd hand stalls are thieves fencing stolen gear but I rarely buy 2nd hand stuff. There are lots of sellers of new gear at knock-down prices. When I was fitting out i must have saved at least £3000 by using jumbles instead of chandlers. My best buy was a pair of Lewmar winches for £500 instead of £1000. On a smaller scale I picked up 200m of kevlar rope for £4. The important thing is to know the retail price of the stuff you're buying.

 

[ToMo]

Have you considered that it might have been nicked from a swindlery? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[steve_l]

Nope, stolen by someone in a small boat who couldn't reach high enough to untie the clove hitch...
So who's often on the water at night in a small boat? Would be a good first suspect.

 

[snooks]

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Some of the 2nd hand stalls are thieves fencing stolen gear but I rarely buy 2nd hand stuff. There are lots of sellers of new gear at knock-down prices. When I was fitting out i must have saved at least £3000 by using jumbles instead of chandlers. My best buy was a pair of Lewmar winches for £500 instead of £1000. On a smaller scale I picked up 200m of kevlar rope for £4. The important thing is to know the retail price of the stuff you're buying.

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Guess you've never heard of winches being stolen then?? The other photographer on the mag had two brand new (lewmar) winches stolen off his Vertue many years ago (they fitted outside the cockpit combing so no access was required to unbolt them)...that happened just before a boat jumble I seem to recall