which boat now?

Since our club lawnmowers were nicked by thieves who came armed with an oxy torch and burned the lock out of a something like 5mm thick steel door I've been wondering how much use any security precautions are...

Edited by JimC

Trouble is, if one person takes the wheels home, and another the hitch, it is pretty easy to make 1 working trailer! I had to take someone's boat home to do some work on it once, and they had forgotten that the tow hitch had been removed. It took maybe 10 minutes to nick one off my trailer and bolt it on. Mind you, another time I had to go and collect a boat on a trailer from an AA compound when the car had broken down and the owner had had to leave the boat. It was padlocked through the hitch handle so it wouldn't lift. Took 20 seconds max with a new hack saw blade to get it off.
I think I stored my trailer at Fox's boatyard when I sailed from Restronguet. I suspect there are rabbit hutch homes on that site now, but there may be another yard willing to store it for a small amount of money?


Edited by Rupert

I have heard that dinghy trailers are very nickable in there own right.  they are generally strong a frame type and can easily have a box bolted on them and the serial number plaques drilled off or changed.

Not allowed to keep your road base under your boat !!!!!

What kind of stupid rule is that?

A combi base hardly takes up any more space than a trolley and the whole sherbang can be tied down just as effectively.

Keep the 300 on the combi, at Restrongeut and tell them to poke it !

i did that last term and got a large amount of abuse because i was having to leave my road base under the boat. apparently this is not allowed. but where am i meant to leave it???

also met a lad there same age as me who owns an 800 so going to try crewing for him for a bit and see how it goes.

tom