Ya, it is a shame, I do a lot of trailering and leaving the oldsmobile and
trailer in public places for short periods of time. In Canada, I have
launched for many water systems such as the Trent, 1000 islands, all around
the great lakes, and all over some of the lakes up in North Ontario, not
once had a problem, left trailer and car there for weeks. In the States, at
the Statue of Liberty State Park had problems, many places in the Keys had
problems, people always steal the battery from the car. Chesapeake Bay at a
State Park, near Annapolis I had no problem (it had security). So I guess
that shows the the Canadian side offered me a more secure feeling of leaving
my belongings without worry, but on the U.S. side something has happened
almost every time. Just lock everything up, you cannot protect against
everything, if the convicts want to get it, they will.









"Marshall Banana" wrote in message
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Also Sprach Gary Warner :

Do others have stories and/or products they use to
insure that the trailer is not messed with? I know
of the devices that go into the ball socket. It
trailer theft common?

If people want it, they'll figure out how to take it. When I was a kid,
we kept the boat in the water year round and stored the trailer on the
side yard. Pop decided to change the wheel bearings, so he moved it to
the driveway, and put it up on cinderblocks. Then he discovered that he
had bought the wrong size bearings, so he left it there overnight
intending to exchange the bearings the next day. Overnight, somoeone
stole the trailer, with with no wheels or hubs, AND the cinderblocks it
was sitting on. Have no idea how they did it, it was a hefty galvanized
frame for a 21 foot boat. Probably weighed way over 500 pounds.

Dan

--
The bomb will not start a chain-reaction in the water converting it all to
gas and letting the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom. It
will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the
hole. It will not destroy gravity. I am not an atomic playboy, as one of
my critics labeled me, exploding these bombs to satisfy my personal whim.

Vice Adm. W.H.P. Blandy, Cmdr Joint Task Force 1, Operation Crossroads,
1946