Through hull dinghy security hole?

[sam_uk]

When in a chandlers somewhere I spotted a clever device. There were two plates one that fitted either side of the floor of a dinghy. The two plates screwed together.

Both the plates have a hole in the centre and when attached together there is a hole in the middle with a thread around the hole.

You cut a circular hole in the floor of the dinghy, then attached the plates both sides and screwed on the plastic cap.

When you want to securely chain up the dinghy you unscrew the cap, and pass the chain through the hole. Then to steal the dinghy you then have to cut the tube rather that just cut off the flimsy shackle.

Does anyone know what these hole things are called, or where I can get one?

Thanks

Sam

 

[Lakesailor]

Or snip the chain with your bolt-cutters.

 

[sam_uk]

Well yes, if they have bolt croppers.. Most don't.

 

[Lakesailor]

A lot of scrotes do have those small ones. Otherwise they'd never make a living

 

[Seajet]

Brass Bung

I'd have thought a good brass bung does the same job; lets rainwater out, and sinks the dinghy if stolen.

However, it pays not to underestimate chavs, I saw 4 of them steal a bung-less dinghy, they seemed to disregard the rising internal water level until the last minute, when they piled it onto the mud and abandoned it, and struggled the awkward - and dangerous - few hundred yards to get ashore.

Tons of hassle for the dinghy owner, but zero to the police by dint of carefully applying the standard 'not turning up' technique .

 

[prv]

I'd have thought a good brass bung does the same job; lets rainwater out, and sinks the dinghy if stolen.

I was thinking on similar lines (actually I was thinking of putting a wire lock through the bung hole instead of the chandler's device) but then I realised the OP was probably talking about inflatable dinghies.

Pete