Around 8/25/2005 11:32 AM, Harry Krause wrote:

Garth Almgren wrote:

Around 8/25/2005 6:31 AM, Harry Krause wrote:

Think we'll have cases of fuel siphoning from boats at marinas?

It's already happened: http://tinyurl.com/8oel7
I reported back in August when my uncle had about 2/3 of his gas stolen
(about 70 gallons, probably all the thieves could carry) while at his
slip in our large public marina.


There's at least 150 boats on trailers at a marina near me...I wonder if
anyone watches the place after hours.

Dunno, since there aren't that many boats kept out of the water near my
marina. Those that are (one boatel, a few acres of yards) are mostly
fenced off with 9' chain link.

The docks themselves (except for the public guest docks) are accessible
from land by key only, but it's only too easy to grab the door as
someone is leaving. Of course, access from the water is WIDE open (which
is probably what happened to my uncle). "Security" does patrol, but for
the most part I get the impression that they're looking for people
parking in the lot without a permit.

My Blue-Boat stays safely at home in a locked garage. However, on the
rare occasion when I leave her at the open guest dock unattended
overnight (for a quicker early-morning departure), everything that isn't
bolted down comes with me.

The gear box, electronics, and two 6.6 gallon tanks are just too easy to
walk off with in the middle of the night. I get it all in one cart load,
and even in broad daylight in front of tens of witnesses I've never been
questioned about stripping the boat nearly bare. Kinda scary, actually.


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows