When my boat is in my driveway, its locked to the truck and the wheels are chained.
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Then someone stole the guy's fuel truck one night to fill their boat for free and the practice ended for good. A fuel truck would meet boaters twice a week at the bridge to fuel up, and it was cheaper and easier than lugging 6 gallon cans to fill a 60 gal.
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I'm not sure if it was in the paper, on TV or online but I remember the story well because at the lake where I lived, we would have to go to an overpass like that to fuel up our boats since there was no fuel on the lake. They got caught selling one of the motors which belonged to someone important, at that point one of them described the whole thing to the police. Once the motors were removed, either by bolts or saw, they pulled the drain plugs, and set them adrift down stream to be found elsewhere. I remember reading about one case years ago where thieves on some lake or river had stolen a handful of boats, then drove or towed them to a nearby overpass where they used a tow truck to hoist the motors up off the boats floating below. If all you do is lock the motor onto the transom, they only have to cut around the motor to steal it.
(bolts that need a special key to remove), A good chain connecting the motor to something substantial other than the transom in or off the boat also helps. Locking bolts, clamp locks, prop locks, locking bolt heads on the lower unit, When it comes to locks, remember that nothing will stop a determined thief but most aren't that smart and most aren't that determined. No one heard anything but the result was obvious the next day. They likely came up by water, didn't know about the dogs, got half way down the dock before the dogs got them then dove to escape. Someone tried to get to his boat once, but all he found was a bloody trail on the dock leading to the water, and the dog had a huge piece of someone's shorts in the dog house as a souvenir. He got a pair of retired security dogs, two large Rottweilers and put their run in reach of the boat and dock behind his house. When I lived on a lake in the 90's, my buddy had an expensive bass boat with a new Suzuki four stroke on it, his last boat had been stolen and stripped.
Plus, many may not even know the difference between an old or newer outboard. The bottom line is that theives are liable to steal just about anything they think they can make a buck on. Suspicious police followed him that evening as he went down to a local marina to get more motors for the following day, they caught him removing motors from small boats docked near the shore.
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He had a truck bed full of 10, 15, and 20hp motors all for sale cheap, even leaving and returning with more twice that day. They caught a guy a number of years ago here selling small outboards at a local fleamarket. Only one motor was newer, a small four stroke, the rest were all larger motors that had been cut from their boats, one with a huge chunk of transom still attached.
It turned out they had five stolen outboards in the truck which was overloaded. If it weren't for the snow they'd have gotten away with it,they had cut the steering cable, cut the bolts, and cut the wiring and managed to get the thing into the back of an old pickup but got the truck stuck in the snow trying to get off the property and were caught when a passing police car through it odd they were stuck where they were sitting. I keep it locked and bolted to the transom with both a clamp lock and special security bolts that prevent it from being removed.Īt my last house, a neighbor had someone steal his 1977 225hp Evinrude off his boat that was stored in his back yard in the middle of November in a snow storm. I'd venture to guess that more than half the motors I see out on the water are over 30 years old, many over 40, including my own, a 1979 Johnson 35. Click to expand.Around these parts the age of the motor doesn't seem to matter much, most will buy any good running motor if the price is right or simply affordable.
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