Theft of outboard

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Arrived at pontoon on Friday to find that some bustard had nicked my outboard. It was locked to the transom with a galvanised steel chain and padlock - previously used for securing a motorbike.
Anyways seems the bustards came in by sea as we looked back at the CCTV recording for the whole week (camera pointing at the pontoon walkway) and it was not carried ashore. Also security gate to club area had not been tampered with.

Called the cops and they were very nice but not hopeful.

May just have to remove new outboard each time we leave the dinghy, but still left with need to secure outboard some of the time. So what's the best outboard lock system around?

I'm actually contemplating spray-painting the outboard in many different fluorescent colours so no-one will want to nick it.
 
Well just looking at the Mobo forum, someone nicked Cuchilo's dinghy as well, coincidence? I think not /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Sorry to hear of your loss, i hate the theiving B******s, as a dinghy and outboard owner I would be devastated if it ever happened to me /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Chris
 
The local rag reported that several outboards were stolen a few weeks ago at Holyhead marina. The thieves arrived and departed by a stolen boat.
 
Our next door neighbour is having some building work done and the builder appears to be splashing, (?) this around all the expensive items.

Don’t know if it’s any good. Would be interested to hear if anyone has used it.
 
According to one of the mags. review a while back none are any good at all but the most expensive of them, £84 I think ,resisted for a few minutes as opposed to the others which all gave in after about 30 seconds by various methods of getting through them
 
I am afraid to say, that you spray paint idea may be the best solution. In Salcombe, some owners are deliberately cosmetically trashing their outboards - makes them harder to sell, but they run just as well!
 
I can substantiate that, I recently bought a 15 foot boat from a bloke down in Devoran, he had a brand new Yamaha 4hp that he has sprayed matt black and metalic blue, it looked awful, but as he said, the bu99ers will leave it alone now, and probably nick somebody elses!
 
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some owners are deliberately cosmetically trashing their outboards - makes them harder to sell, but they run just as well!

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Quite the best tip I've seen on this forum since someone pointed out that you could by fire extinguishers for a fiver at Lidl.
 
It apparently works on dinghies and inflatables as well.....

We have one guy at our yard who has sprayed 'Vic' all over his tender in broad wonky handwriting.
 
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We have one guy at our yard who has sprayed 'Vic' all over his tender




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That should keep their synuses clear /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
WANTED FOR THEFT OF OUTBOARD.
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Yes Phillip - will this one do?

The Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Really sorry about your loss. Hope you excuse the levity.
 
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any idea how they overcame the chain and padlock ?

[/ QUOTE ]Bolt croppers? or rechargeable grinderette? No problem, even "hardened" steel chain or padlocks can be cropped (quiet) or if really super high tensile / hard chain, ground (noisy). There are other methods but I'll not go into them as it might give the scrotes ideas.
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