We are still nervous about our boat security, so we went down to check her on the mooring this evening. We have a night watch at North Haven and they fill out a log. On reading last nights log it transpires that a cockle boat was in the moorings without nav lights at midnight last night. The night watch reported this to the coast guard who in turn notified the Marine Police who in their wisdom turned up not as you would expect by boat but by road. They used a loudhailer to tell the said cockle boat to come in, on the second call the cockle boat throttled up and p**sed off. What a surprise!!!!!
With the amount of thefts that are happening from boats at the moment why are we not seeing more police patrols on the water. These scrotes just seem to be left to get on with helping themselves to what ever they want.
There is no way this git was cockling at midnight in the moorings. We now have security bolts fitted to our remaining gearbox but we are still finding very unsettling.
Colin