On Saturday morning a professional thief entered our Marina in NY and robbed
a newly delivered boat of its electronics. The removal job was as clean and
perfect as if it was being done by a professional installer.

Common MO. Find out where the boat was
commissioned, and check the employee parking lot for the car caught on video
tape.

Back in the days when cars were delivered without radios, or major sucky
factory AM/FM casettes, I used to do a lot of business with local car stereo
installation companies. I noticed that customers referred to a particular car
stereo company were routinely getting ripped off within a very few days of
delivery. The lot boy "asked around" and found out that the two guys who did
"installations" for that particular stereo company were among the main go-to
guys when you wanted a barely used, highly discounted car stereo.
We stopped sending customers to that firm, but the cops? Couldn't have cared
less.

A lot of marine electronics are probably stolen "to order". The market is so
small that the risk of being caught trying to sell the stuff is enormous. How
many of the very latest model Raymarine plotter, radar,
etc combos are going to be for sale second hand?

Did the boat owner get and keep the original boxes? If not, sadly enough, this
gear may already be back on the shelf and
represented as "new" someplace.

Was this another case of a $1mm boat protected by a $15 lock?...........or did
the thief seem to get aboard with very little trouble? Look very carefully at
the commissioning company employees. One of them could be a bad apple.