Stolen engine

PJC · 14 July 2009, 11:22

Lookout the engine thieves are about, we had a Verado 300 stolen off a Cougar R8 Rib over the weekend, looks like they came in and left by water as a vehicle was stopping the Rib from being moved from its waterside location, the feckers cut all the steering and electrical connections in the process

Pete @ Cougar

PeterM · 14 July 2009, 11:25

Not the only thing to have gone walk about in the area ...........little twats - was it on land ? , then they got the motor off & away on the water ?

Can see there have been a Ribeye taken from Warsash & another in Swanage in last few weeks

Going on ' Stolen Boats' site I assume?

Leapy · 14 July 2009, 11:33

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Originally Posted by PJC

...we had a Verado 300 stolen off a Cougar R8 Rib over the weekend...looks like they came in and left by water...

Shit

Not exactly the type of thing you stick under your arm (over 250kgs?) and walk away with. Any idea how the hell they got it off your boat and into theirs?

Nasher · 14 July 2009, 12:09

What a bugger.

I was sat in traffic on the A27 bridge over the hamble watching what I presume is the boat get washed down whilst hanging off the crane on Friday aternoon, and thought how nice the two 300 Verados looked.

Nasher

Rigaud · 14 July 2009, 12:17

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Originally Posted by Leapy

Shit

Not exactly the type of thing you stick under your arm (over 250kgs?) and walk away with. Any idea how the hell they got it off your boat and into theirs?

Same way they take away a 250kg Harley Davidson bike around here, show up with 4-6 guys and pick it up then carried away.

codprawn · 14 July 2009, 15:50

Yes but an outboard ia a very awkward shape to carry - 80% of the weight is in the powerhead which is all curved and not very grabbable!!!

Leapy · 14 July 2009, 16:02

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Yes but an outboard ia a very awkward shape to carry

Not that a Harley is that easy to grab hold of Codders...but you're right...how the hell do you lift 250kgs of unhelpfully balanced ironmongery off the back of a transom, carry it to the waters edge and lower it, gently, into another boat?

Maybe, just maybe, at that same waters edge, there's a boat lying submerged with a big hole in its hull and four blokes drowned with their arms still wrapped around the engine?

Scumbags

JSP · 14 July 2009, 16:37

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Originally Posted by Leapy

Maybe, just maybe, at that same waters edge, there's a boat lying submerged with a big hole in its hull and four blokes drowned with their arms still wrapped around the engine?

Scumbags

Be nice turn out wouldn't it?

Thinking about it. If there is enough room.
2 good sized blokes either side of the motor,lift it down on to a board. Drag the board with rope to the waters edge. Lift onto boat and off you pop.

Leapy · 14 July 2009, 17:31

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Originally Posted by JSP

2 good sized blokes either side of the motor,lift it down on to a board. Drag the board with rope to the waters edge. Lift onto boat and off you pop.

Er, John. What were you doing past weekend?

JSP · 14 July 2009, 17:34

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Originally Posted by Leapy

Er, John. What were you doing past weekend?

Wishing my engine wasn't broke, wondering how to get a new one...Hang on IT WASN'T ME!!
I've got an alley buy orificer!!!

Sorry PJC, shouldn't joke

Lewy · 14 July 2009, 19:00

so what are these scumbags gonna do with the engine now.? keep for themselves, sell it, and if so where and how much?
it can't be easy just to sell and engine like that without it raising suspicion, specially if you need parts for it.
or am i just being naive?

sorry to hear about the theft PJC these things just make you sick to the stomach.

JSP · 14 July 2009, 19:06

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Originally Posted by Lewy

so what are these scumbags gonna do with the engine now.? keep for themselves, sell it, and if so where and how much?
it can't be easy just to sell and engine like that without it raising suspicion, specially if you need parts for it.
or am i just being naive?

sorry to hear about the theft PJC these things just make you sick to the stomach.

That's what I've always wondered about boat theft in general. I'd put money on it that there are a few organised groups doing them. Maybe stripped and sold.

PeterM · 14 July 2009, 19:12

I reckon all organsied on that scale - engines/ boats etc going all round Europe , no qyestions asked.

How could you check if a boat you were buying in 6 months in Spain was stolen in the UK today ?

JSP · 14 July 2009, 19:22

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Originally Posted by Blackroady

I reckon all organsied on that scale - engines/ boats etc going all round Europe , no qyestions asked.

How could you check if a boat you were buying in 6 months in Spain was stolen in the UK today ?

And is there any kind of data base of engine numbers?

Turbodiesel · 14 July 2009, 20:44

Hello, Really sorry to hear that. Give me a PM with the engine details and i can make sure it gets on The stolen list. It gets put around the Merc and Mariner Dealers. It might help.

yoyo · 14 July 2009, 20:51

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Yes but an outboard ia a very awkward shape to carry - 80% of the weight is in the powerhead which is all curved and not very grabbable!!!

If the motor was laid onto a cargo net or heavy tarp it could be carried away by 4-6 feckers. Scum!!!

Roy Smith · 14 July 2009, 20:55

My sister told me that a man and his family called into the motor way services at Membury with there caravan came out an hour later to find someone had cut the tow bar off the caravan and nicked it leaving the hitch still locked onto the car, all in day light
it seams if the B----tards want it they just take it.

Bigmuz7 · 14 July 2009, 21:20

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Yes but an outboard ia a very awkward shape to carry - 80% of the weight is in the powerhead which is all curved and not very grabbable!!!

I quite agree

And the sorry thing is... that as I have said before, the thieves are educated boaters, they are probably people we know, and I know that doesnt sound nice, but its the conclusion I have come to.. from having experience of specialised plant stolen. These people know their game, and the only way that happens is if they are part of the cummunity

You have to be careful who you speak to sometimes, and of what you say

Hightower · 14 July 2009, 21:28

This is all a bit worrying happening in my area. Makes me feel a bit vunerable. Toe rag scum bags, hope they get what's coming to em!

PeterM · 14 July 2009, 21:32

All you can do is make sure your insurance is correct & you are 100% with what you can claim for.