My boat got stolen on Sunday...

Beach Fanatic

Apr 24, '07 · 11:04 AM2,463

Don't laugh too hard...but two guys and a boy waded up out of the bay and STOLE OUR BOAT OUT OF OUR YARD on Sunday. Wesley was home, saw them and thought wth to himself, but didn't confront them as he was alone. It's just a 8 to 10 foot old aluminum green jonboat, no motor, was registered 25 years ago but not renewed as the motor was sold after my dad died, slightly warped and a small hole in the bottom. Still, it was nice to piddle around on, and it belonged to my dad :wub:

. I can't believe anyone might have thought it was abandoned; it was IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE. :pissed:

Fuzz discovered the boat was missing yesterday (Wesley had forgotten to advise us :bang:

) and, after learning of the bay people absconding with it, walked the shoreline from our house to Cabbage Rose Lane late yesterday afternoon. No sign of it. He would search again today, but he is back at work today and since he is now off patrol and back in CID, he can't drive around and look for his boat.

If anyone goes kayaking or messing around in the bay from 331 or Bay Drive east, and sees a boat that looks like that pulled up somewhere, please PM me? or call my cell, 850-585-6471?

Meanwhile, make sure all of your stuff is locked up or tied down...and tell your teenagers that people coming up and leaving with your stuff warrants a phone call :blink:

Replies

Beach Fanatic

Apr 24, '07 · 1:32 PM#2

So sorry! People!!!

little sugar

Apr 24, '07 · 1:38 PM#3

Wow they had some guts taking something out of your yard!!!! so sorry about that, maybe it will show up later? :blink:

SoWal Expert

Apr 24, '07 · 1:42 PM#4

Wow they had some guts taking something out of your yard!!!!

Especially with your son looking on. Wesley should have busted a cap in their @$$.

SoWal Insider

Apr 24, '07 · 1:46 PM#5

Awww...this is sad.

Let's all keep an eye out for it and bring it back!:clap_1:

Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname

Apr 24, '07 · 1:57 PM#6

Girl, boy do I know how you feel!!! So sorry. I really hope that you can get it back. People can be so freaking mean. :pissed:

Beach Fanatic

Apr 24, '07 · 3:26 PM#7

Sorry to hear about that, someone stole my dad's boat out of our yard too, when my mother was in the hospital dying of cancer. An old friend of the family gave me a small 12' Jon boat (you'd know the gentleman if I told you), it wasn't near what my dad's was though. 20 years later, I managed to find one similar to his and bought it, have a blast with it. The other boat got damaged on the conrete rip rap, not too bad, I used it to get out after Hurricane Ivan, if you would like it you can have it.

fartblossom

Apr 24, '07 · 3:49 PM#8

it's a sad fact that if it isn't nailed down, it will go mia. i even chain my wicker chairs to my front porch !

SoWal Expert

Apr 24, '07 · 3:54 PM#9

It takes more than nails and chains to stop theives. We had a canoe chained to a tree at a local lake, and the thick chain was cut and left by the tree, but the boat was nowhere in sight.

fartblossom

Apr 24, '07 · 4:55 PM#10

It takes more than nails and chains to stop theives. We had a canoe chained to a tree at a local lake, and the thick chain was cut and left by the tree, but the boat was nowhere in sight.

that's true sj, but i have some really thick chain, and i hope by the time they would get cut thru it, the nosy old guy across the street will have the police on the way.

SoWal Insider

Apr 24, '07 · 10:02 PM#11

A friend of my wife has a home on Lake Virginia near Rollins College. After hearing some noise one morning, the friend looked out in the backyard to see someone making off with their bar-b-que grill by means of boat. It was an amphibious ripoff.

SoWal Expert

Apr 24, '07 · 10:10 PM#12

that's true sj, but i have some really thick chain, and i hope by the time they would get cut thru it, the nosy old guy across the street will have the police on the way.

battery powered metal saw will be through that thick chain in less than 30 seconds, and they can be fairly quite, but a pair of bolt cutters can do the job under ten seconds and are even more quiet.

BTW audie, you must see me before you leave!

Meow

Apr 25, '07 · 6:20 AM#13

...that stinks. I hope it sinks with them in it and then washes up on shore for you.

Beach Fanatic

Apr 25, '07 · 7:54 AM#14

Thieves will be shot, then hung and then shot again. Maybe they will get a trial and then shot again!!!!! :bang:

:nono1:

I will also be checking to see if the access on Cabbage Rose is deeded to residents etc. With all the things that have been going on in this neighborhood, the thief has either some really big balls or is just that stupid!:nono1: I'm going with the later.

Skunky

Apr 25, '07 · 9:37 AM#15

Do you happen to have a picture or the registration numbers for budding bounty hunters?

Beach FanaticAuthor

Apr 25, '07 · 9:40 AM#16

No boat yet, but more "waders" yesterday afternoon. Grrrr.

Beach FanaticAuthor

Apr 25, '07 · 9:44 AM#17

Do you happen to have a picture or the registration numbers for budding bounty hunters?

We are hunting for a picture. Of course, we usually left the camera inside when the boat was involved due to its propensity to take on water. :blush:

Skunky

Apr 25, '07 · 9:50 AM#18

No boat yet, but more "waders" yesterday afternoon. Grrrr.

What are waders? People in the bay fishing? :idontno:

SoWal Expert

Apr 25, '07 · 11:56 AM#19

Thieves will be shot, then hung and then shot again. Maybe they will get a trial and then shot again!!!!! :nono1: I will also be checking to see if the access on Cabbage Rose is deeded to residents etc. With all the things that have been going on in this neighborhood, the thief has either some really big balls or is just that stupid!:nono1: I'm going with the later.

Plat book 2, p1, and that road and access is dedicated in perpetuity to the public. The boat was stolen from Magnolia Beach s/d. It was stolen from The Shallows.

Beach FanaticAuthor

Apr 25, '07 · 12:12 PM#20

What are waders? People in the bay fishing?

Yeah...and look for pottery, and generally just enjoy the day. Basically just walking around in the bay. From where they come, we don't know...

And we normally don't mind folks walking around out there, aside for the fact that we have no window treatments

, until a group of them left with our boat.

I'm still amazed...:roll:

Beach Fanatic

Apr 25, '07 · 1:47 PM#21

I am so sorry this happened! Wow! The noive!
I sure do hope you get it back.

Beach FanaticAuthor

Apr 25, '07 · 8:20 PM#22

Plat book 2, p1, and that road and access is dedicated in perpetuity to the public. The boat was stolen from Magnolia Beach s/d. It was stolen from The Shallows.

I'm just trying to figure out where all these people are coming from. They always come from the west. We had been thinking that they were staying at the Powers' house on West Shallows, but neighbor closest to that house states nobody has been there in ages. That leaves Ivy Lane, The Woods, and then the access at Magnolia Beach S/D...which is a pretty good jaunt, especially if you are walking in the water!

Maybe they made it over here, got tired, and took the boat home. Yeah, that's it. :roll:

Beach FanaticAuthor

Apr 26, '07 · 8:13 AM#23

UPDATE!!!

As evidenced in my 'tar, the boat was returned about 6:30 this morning. :clap_1:

Fuzz had put the sign out on our seawall poles on Tuesday morning. Yesterday morning, he noticed that several of the groups of bay people that frequent our water got closer to take a look at it.

This morning, he saw a boat that we have seen before. Muttered "d@mn, that almost looks like a boat in that boat!" but had to leave to take Wesley to catch the school bus. I was busy primping and packing (I have to catch a flight later this morning).

Fuzz comes home and notices the bigger boat hauling @ss away. He walks down and lo and behold...