Instead of using the hook you describe, why not just bury a few feet of the
chain in the concrete? Is it possible for you to rent a post hole auger?
Just dig a hole a foot wide or so and 8 or 9 feet down, drop a few feet of
chain in, fill with concrete and voila, instant solid structure to lock the
boat to.

Are armed boat thieves really a huge problem where you are? If so I wouldn't
recommend camping there anyway.

As far as the opportunistic type of thieves go, removing the battery as
others have suggested should work. How big is the boat? Would one or two
people be able to make off with it without power? If it were me I'd just
carry a hundred feet of light chain and some padlocks. Lock one end to the
eye bolt and the other around a nice sturdy lake or river side tree. That
would prevent anyone from rowing or towing away your boat.

"Matt Lang" wrote in message
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Folks,

its now down to a few weeks til the boat will arrive and I have to
start makeing arrangements to make sure it stays where it belongs and
doesnt end up with some crook....

My insurance (and common sense) require the boat to be chained when
stored at my place. Unfortunately there is no solid structure nearby
that I could use to connect a chain to .... I was thinking about a
hook in the (concrete) ground .. Kryptonite has one but its expensive
and hard to get here... Are there any other ideas or options?

The second scenario that requires some protection is when camping with
the boat. It should be made sure that nobody can pull the boat away at
night and I have to swim home ... What is the standard method to
protect for that? Lets leave aside that sometimes you DONT want to
know or be there if someone (armed) takes your boat....

I was thinking about an alarm in the boat ... it could be a simple
setup with a vibration sensor hooked to a siren or a thin wire going
from boat to shore and if the boat moves the wire rips and triggers
the siren ..

Is this preactical? Recommended? After all sometimes its better to
stay asleep and let the boat go with an armed&dangerous criminal ..


What are your opinions, experiences?

Matt