Destroyed by youth on Jet skis and tinnies.

Tragic. And could have been so easily prevented. A Trek Transponder on the boat with a deck sensor would have sent SMS alarm messages to the owners as soon as the crims got on board. Then a high water alarm. Then an alarm if the boat started to list or the crims untied it. (Happened in Moreton Bay). My shameless self promotion The classic was a boat that lived tied to a jetty. The owner smugly told me he didnt need a Trek Transponder because he could see it. Sometime later he woke in the morning to find it sunk and diesel from it all along the shore. On the positive theres now 1000+ who fitted one. Cheap insurance.

No idea of what the water etiquette here or how boats being left places works but this like someone leaving a car down a dirt road for a 6 months and the local deadbeats trash it? Or is it just people being ****witts and smashing someone's home?

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gibbo000001 said..
No idea of what the water etiquette here or how boats being left places works but this like someone leaving a car down a dirt road for a 6 months and the local deadbeats trash it? Or is it just people being ****witts and smashing someone's home?

Cute, so in your considered opinion leaving a boat on a mooring is justification for vandalism and intentional damage. Would leaving your car parked legally on the street be grounds for similar vandalism.?

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UncleBob said..

gibbo000001 said..
No idea of what the water etiquette here or how boats being left places works but this like someone leaving a car down a dirt road for a 6 months and the local deadbeats trash it? Or is it just people being ****witts and smashing someone's home?

Cute, so in your considered opinion leaving a boat on a mooring is justification for vandalism and intentional damage. Would leaving your car parked legally on the street be grounds for similar vandalism.?

Lol. Nah I'm not saying that at all. Trying hard to articulate what I mean. I'll try again. I have no sailing experience and often come to this place in the night when getting woken up in attacks and reading the threads in here is the only thing that is calming enough to put me back to sleep. Just free of stress.

yeah so with the example. Obviously not endorsing this behaviour in anyway. I watched the video and felt the emotions I'm am
guessing by your response you did as well,
and everyone else did. I guess what I'm saying is, sometimes people take the plates off their car and dump it on the street somewhere never to return. After a year or whatever deadbeat kids with nothing better to do go to town on it. Sometimes people go
away a few months and leave it in front of someone else's house for that time. Dead beats go to town on that also. Other times they just go to town on anything the ****s in this video looked opportunistic ****s can.


So what I'm asking is what was the go with the spot this yacht was left in. Was it left in a spot it wasn't ment to illegally? Was it left somewhere it's allowed to be left in? Was it left somewhere like when you park your car under a sign saying 'lock your car and hide your valuables'. What do you do with yachts
when your not going to use them for a few months?

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Cute, so in your considered opinion leaving a boat on a mooring is justification for vandalism and intentional damage. Would leaving your car parked legally on the street be grounds for similar vandalism.?

I don't think he was saying that at all and you can't deny Gibbo the fact that what he said happens. Add to that it is obviously close to a millionaires island with bratty entitled rich kids with flashy toys, what do you think is going to happen to a boat that entitle rich people think is 'free loading' off 'their' waterways.
Have a look at what's happening in Noosa River with houseboats getting damaged by the snobbery of land owners. It is happening, but no one here is condoning it.

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Toph said..

UncleBob said..

Cute, so in your considered opinion leaving a boat on a mooring is justification for vandalism and intentional damage. Would leaving your car parked legally on the street be grounds for similar vandalism.?

I don't think he was saying that at all and you can't deny Gibbo the fact that what he said happens. Add to that it is obviously close to a millionaires island with bratty entitled rich kids with flashy toys, what do you think is going to happen to a boat that entitle rich people think is 'free loading' off 'their' waterways.
Have a look at what's happening in Noosa River with houseboats getting damaged by the snobbery of land owners. It is happening, but no one here is condoning it.

UncleBob sunk my battleship

There's more than one troll under this bridge