Securing Dingy?

[jjcarr1]

Doing my research, one question I have is, how do you secure your dingy to avoid theft when off the boat? Med or Caribbean. I'd be worried about someone stealing the dingy or engine while I'm off eating in a restaurant. Ideas?

[thinwater]

Originally Posted by jjcarr1

Doing my research, one question I have is, how do you secure your dingy to avoid theft when off the boat? Med or Caribbean. I'd be worried about someone stealing the dingy or engine while I'm off eating in a restaurant. Ideas?

If it's dingy most thieves won't be interested.


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[SailingHarmonie]

Lock the engine to your dingy dinghy, and lock the dinghy to shore. Have a hard to find fuel cut off valve. Take the clip on the emergency cutoff switch with you. None are perfect, but you just make it harder than the next one down the dock.

But if someone is bold enough to walk down the dinghy dock with a bolt cutter, nothing you can do will stop them from towing your dinghy away and dealing with other measures at their leisure.

None of the local crooks want your dinghy, they do want your outboard. That being said there are certainly cruisers out there who will happily steal your dinghy if they feel they need it.