Ever had your ladder taken?

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PrincessoftheLake

PrincessoftheLake

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Jun 9, 2004
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Hunter 40.5 Bayfield, WI
It's not just the ladder

At our marina everyone provides their own waterhose. So, one day I'm on my boat, in the slip doing some boat chores when a teenaged girl from a boat on our dock that I had not seen before, gets off her boat, walks over to our hose and begins to remove it from our water connection! I stopped her and asked her why she was taking our hose. She said her Aunt who owned the boat she was on, told her to come get it. I said you are welcome to use it, but please ask first and be sure to return it. She did and it was. However, just a few weeks later I noticed that the Aunt's boat was gone and so was my hose. Hmmm. Makes you wonder. Anyway, I am buying a dock box this year and storing my hose when not on the boat. I agree with everyone else. By all means, feel free to use it-just have the decency to bring it back.
 
Fred Ficarra

Fred Ficarra

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Dec 2, 2003
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What to add???

What I was going to suggest has been said. My stuff is always available to anyone who needs it. Your boat name etched into the ladder might help,,a little. But a thief is a thief. They just don't care about signs, or locks for that matter.
 
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Paul Akers

Shoulda Locked It!!!

Sorry, it's your own fault. One man's junk is another man's treasure. Sometime writing your name on it will help. Then you have a better reason to take it back if it's on another boat. What about the board that you set up for a staging. I drillrd a hole in mine so I can lock it to a jackstand.
 
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droopy

RE: Shoulda Locked It!!!

I agree! That what I do. The lock only keeps the honest people honest but that enough to make it worth wild. They may bring it back if you are lucky. MAYBE NOT IF THEY READ THE LETTER YOU WROTE.
 
RAD

RAD

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Jun 3, 2004
2,330
Catalina 30 Bay Shore, N.Y.
If they didn't return it

Right away they had know intention of returning it!! I posted that sign a week later hoping it would show up and I learned a lesson that I'm never going to leave my ladder unlocked cause I heard from a friend the same story that while he was working on his boat some numbskull took his ladder and left him up in the boat to call for help and when he found it the ladder thief was being a jerk about it like it was every ones ladder. My situation is the boat is completly covered and if someone took the ladder while I was inside I'd be in for a big suprise when ready to exit and now that I have the SIGN on my boat I could just imagine some wise guy taking the new ladder for shits and giggles
 
higgs

higgs

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Aug 24, 2005
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Nassau 34 Olcott, NY
Where the hell is Bayshore NY

Not anywhere near Olcott, i hope.
 
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Benny

Good thing you were not aboard.

In line with your thinking your neighbor will not probably mind if you use his; if it is not locked.
 
RAD

RAD

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Jun 3, 2004
2,330
Catalina 30 Bay Shore, N.Y.
The little wood ladder

that cost 20.00 @ Home Depot 15 years ago is not even sold anymore so I shot the lock off my wallet and spent 75.00 for a 4 ft fiberglass ladder that can be used at work on the jobs and I have no intention of leaving it locked up at the boat yard but yesterday while on the boat I did run a dock line thu a ladder rung and up into the boat just to be sure.
 
Ctskip

Ctskip

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Sep 21, 2005
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other 12 wet water
watching your backside

I do hope that while you are up in your boat, you remembered to take your vehicles keys with you. And be sure to lock your vehicle. It's a sad statement, but thats the way the world is spinning. I have a 6 foot chain link fence across my east side of my property. The gate has a small suitcase lock on it. (with the key hanging not fat from the lock). It isn't there to keep criminals out just trying to keep those that want to be criminals out. It works too! You'd be surprised at how many 10 to 12 year olds try the gate when they think nobody is looking. Always be prepared. Keep it up, Ctskip PS sorry for the loss of that secure feeling we all have. Concider it a cheap education. Maybe now is the time to review all your posessions to be sure they are secure. Let this loss be a learning tool. Make a negative become a positive. Time to tighten up your ship.
 
Fred Ficarra

Fred Ficarra

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Dec 2, 2003
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This thread is a good reminder for me.

I realize how precious our home is. I don't have to lock anything. The new Duramax diesel is sitting outside with the keys in the ignition. So's the old 4X4. So's the tractor. Hell, even the boat sat for two years in the MARINA with no lock on the companion way until my wife bugged me. No loses. But of course my Camaro is under lock and key 24-7. I'm no fool!
 
Ross

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
14,693
Islander/Wayfairer 30 sail number 25 Perryville,Md.
Maybe the simple fact that I need a ten foot

ladder to board my boat on the hard accounts for the reason that it doesn't leave the yard, It won't fit in most cars.
 
RAD

RAD

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Jun 3, 2004
2,330
Catalina 30 Bay Shore, N.Y.
Fred's truck may have the keys in it

But it also has an alarm cause you can hear a Duramax diesel six blocks away and ol Fred will be breaking out the six shooters before you can get it in gear. ;D like Ctskip said I'm to trusting of people cause I never lock the truck,cars and I leave keys in the truck on the console with all the other stuff so there kind of hidden.
 
Fred Ficarra

Fred Ficarra

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Dec 2, 2003
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Na RAD. It's a quiet diesel.

The new ones are all ultra high fuel pressure electronically fuel injected. (20,000 psi or so) Each injector fires many times for each power stroke. Every manufacturer is doing it now. Yes, even DODGE! A buddie of mine bought his Dodge the year before they went to the Duramax system. He's sorry he did. His ears are taking a beating.
 
RAD

RAD

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Jun 3, 2004
2,330
Catalina 30 Bay Shore, N.Y.
I always kid my 2 friends

who are contractors with the Cummings diesels and I tell them there help is always goofing off and they go back to work when they here the boss's truck coming.
 
Ferg

Ferg

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Mar 6, 2006
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Catalina 27 C27 @Thunder Bay ON Ca.
As a side bar.....

….somebody took my old 10 foot wooden ladder. It was gone for a few days before it mysteriously returned nicely painted and much less wobbly. I still don’t know who the culprit was, but when I catch him I’m gonna ….. say “thanks, eh!” Ferg
 
RAD

RAD

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Jun 3, 2004
2,330
Catalina 30 Bay Shore, N.Y.
Ferg

It was the wife, cause she didn't want you falling and breaking your leg than you'd be sitting around the house all day and she'd have to wait on you hand and foot
 
Ctskip

Ctskip

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Sep 21, 2005
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other 12 wet water
I'm not sure about everyone else

but I know if it were up to me, anyone that has their vehicle stolen and the keys are in it, they should be held liable. it's enticement. It's a invitation for some halfway law obeying kid, to get into trouble. And leaving ones keys is a open invitation to take it for a ride. And that makes the owner equally as responcible as the thief. Just as the ladder sitting on the ground is a open invitation for someone to use it. The bad part about that is not returning it. I have friends like that. I'm sure we all do. Borrow and forget it has a home. Keep it locked and out of site and chances are it'll be there when you need it. Keep it up, Ctskip
 
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