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ian.r.mcdonald 
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Joined: 24 Feb 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 440 |
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 Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 10:02am |
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The sad fact is that our depleted police will often not even come out for house break ins and accidents if no injury. So the thieves know that it's very unlikely that they will be caught, and that they can spend extra time overcoming any obstacles.
How about offering free membership for your local Police social club? |
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PeterG
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Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 10:03am |
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Fine until people start cutting transoms off, as has happened round here in the past. Though I agree it does reduce the likelihood a lot..
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Peter
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zimbob
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Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 11:02am |
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Jeffers - can you clarify what you mean by welding the bolts in? How would this prevent the transom being chainsawed off as we have also heard that this tends to be a popular approach?
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jeffers
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Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 12:30pm |
We may have been lucky in that they didn't have a chainsaw with them. There wee spanners all over the place there they had tried and failed. They used a hiab to get the engine they got over the compound fence and turned all the cameras away so they couldn't be observed (don't even get me started on that). We have been visited since and they stole the tractor we use to launch and recover (which was ony a few months old). At least the club has made some changes to try and mitigate that including an alarm that directly calls various committee members when it gets triggered.
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423zero
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Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 12:35pm |
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Not sure people turning up to a robbery in progress a very good idea, likely to end badly.
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Sam.Spoons
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Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 12:56pm |
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No but they can call the police while it's happening rather than next weekend when it is discovered.
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423zero
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Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 1:17pm |
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True, to make sure Police actually turn up, tell them a couple of female members have gone to investigate.
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Robert
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davidyacht
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Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 9:21pm |
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I believe that Google Earth makes the crims work so much easier; I worked for insurers on a case where a load of engines were chain sawed off off. The access was through a neighbouring field which was only obvious by the aerial view provided by Google Earth.
More recently a load of boats were launched in the middle of the night from a local yard and floated away to an isolated location, where the engines were chain sawed off. On another occasion the crims were caught red handed, but the police were unable to attend because the only patrol was 20 miles away. To summarise, outboard engine theft is a professional operation and if the tea leaves have targeted you there is little to be done in this day and age. It also beggars the question as to whether many of the outboard engines offered by a well known marketplace website are “legal”?
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Happily living in the past
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The Moo
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Posted: 01 Dec 19 at 8:31pm |
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The Harbour Commissioners at Wells Next The Sea in conjunction I think with Norfolk Constabulary sell weatherproof plastic covers which replace the engine cowling when not in use which is taken home. An engine without a cowling is not an attractive proposition to criminals.
The scheme has been running for a number of years and outboard theft in the harbour has been virtually eliminated |
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423zero
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Posted: 11 Jan 20 at 3:47pm |
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Well our New Year off to a good start, thieves have broken in, destroyed a £2000 security system, including taking DVR, 2 newish outboards including half sawing through one of the boats transom, plus damage to building.
No sailing till we get new outboards. |
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