So last Wednesday I discovered the cabin broken into however nothing really stolen or trashed. They even left the half bottle of gin alone!

Which lead me to believe I have an unwelcome guest.

Came back at night to discover a lady in her early 30's on my boat!She apologised and moved on (I found out a boat 3 moorings away from me).

Spoke to the Police who really can't do anything, spoke to the council (who run the mooring) again, can't really do anything.

I guess I was lucky it was an apologetic woman, not an aggressive junkie.

Down and out women who drink Gin are dangerous!!!!!

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cisco said..

Down and out women who drink Gin are dangerous!!!!!

edit : women are dangerous!!!!! ......... sorry mcnaghty and meg , couldn't resist !!!

Echunda, sounds like you are alongside and not on a mooring. Is that right?

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MorningBird said..
Echunda, sounds like you are alongside and not on a mooring. Is that right?

Not sure. I have a mooring at Mordialloc creek.


The lady was in her early 30's recently homeless, well dressed (office attire) and an ice habit.

Made me sad to think about her situation.

How did she get out to your boat? Just interested as I have often thought breaking into a boat that looks unused would be attractive to homeless people, but not an easy thing to do when the boat is on a mooring.

A few years ago at Poty Huon a couple of young blokes (one in his 20's and the other a teenager from the other side of the river) broke into the dinghy shed, took a dinghy and rowed out to a boat, broke in to it and tried to light the stove to cook some sausages they had bought with them, but could not get it going, so they rowed to another boat, cooked the sausages on it and stole a bit of gear off it

Then they rowed to a fishing boat, stole some beer and then went back to the original boat, had dinner and slept there for the night

The owner of the boat found out what had happened a few days later and called the police who found the receipt for the sausages on the boat and went to the shop (that had cctv of them buying the food) and identified who they were (the police knew them)

With the evidence that was left on the boat and the cc tv footage they were arrested and charged

Down here everyone watches out for each other's boats (the boats are moored across from the homes) but this happened at night and no one was aware of it

Regards Don

That poor woman. Ice is an evil ****cnig drug; destroys lives, destroys brains if on it for long enough. That would have been a really weird experience, Echunda.

I suppose this is a good reason to be happy my mooring is about 10 moorings out rather than closer to shore. I've often thought it'd be nice to be closer - be able to just swim out in summer - but there are also young people around sometimes borrowing dinghies and mucking around.

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MorningBird said..
How did she get out to your boat? Just interested as I have often thought breaking into a boat that looks unused would be attractive to homeless people, but not an easy thing to do when the boat is on a mooring.

There used to be someone living under the railway bridge at the end or the moorings at Mordy when I had my little boat tied by the river bank just up from Leon Pompei's. Also there was a bloke living on board his speedboat in a pen near the road bridge. I used to live and work at Ozenem House in Melb then worked with homless youth on the streets of the CBD during the 80's and I can tell you there is usually a story of brokenness of some form or another behind the addiction or homelessness.

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Guitz said..

I used to live and work at Ozenem House in Melb then worked with homless youth on the streets of the CBD during the 80's and I can tell you there is usually a story of brokenness of some form or another behind the addiction or homelessness.

Absolutely. I used to be a youth worker too and now a psychologist so I've worked with the brokenness for 20 years or so. One of the reasons I need a boat.

Hat off to you DrRog not easy mending the broken seen a bit of it myself. I had some one break into my home whilst I was in there he/she tripped over the vacuum I left in the hall way then hid in the house cause I got up when I heard the noise. It wasn't till the morning when I found the wheelie bin under one of the windows did the penny drop lost wallet phone and camera. Drugs make people do desperate things.

The bloke that used to live on his Whitley near the bridge died on the boat.

The council were pissed off because he sub letted the mooring, they couldn't kick him off (I'm sure they could, just couldn't be bothered). There's a huge political **** fight over moorings from the clubs and council. But that's another story.

The moorings at Mordialloc creek are alongside and easily accessible to anyone. There's no security, camera's or even decent lighting to deter potential thieves or squatters.

The more you secure the cabin, the more they'll damage trying to get in.

Wow sorry to hear that.........he didn't look that old.
My boat was an 18 ft open half cab Cayzer motorboat and i used to hide the crank handle. There where life jackets etc up front behind doors that didn't lock. Never lost anything. The only thing that happened was once when checking the oil in gearbox /clutch on my yanmar PMX 6 it was milky because water had got in, the motor was ok though. I left it a week because of work etc, and when I came back with oil for the change, I found it had new oil already in it!! all cleaned looking great??? I can only assume someone had taken it for a run while I was away and noticed the oil and decided to drain and replace.

I had a push bike knocked off from the Cairns Cruising Yacht Squadron (long time ago) one Saturday night after some function (noisy piss up) was held there. A couple of day later the bike was returned to it original resting place with the tyres pumped up and the chain oiled.

Mind you, borrowing a push bike and a boat are (nautical) miles apart.

There's some really sad stories there. I also work with the broken.... which is why I need a boat. Nice to see some compassion on here.

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cisco said..

Down and out women who drink Gin are dangerous!!!!!

edit : women are dangerous!!!!! ......... sorry mcnaghty and meg , couldn't resist !!!

It's ok Sands.... I don't mind a gin and tonic, but not down and out, so I don't qualify as dangerous...lol

Gee, that's not good.

Thought I was hard done when some low life swipe a fish landing net off Seaka when I was in the Scarborough Marina.
Thinking back I saw the so'n'so walk off with, just didn't realize it was mine!

While we are at it I have a pretty lame what was stolen story. When Warana was in Sandringham marina she was the first boat you came accross as you entered the security gate. While she was for sale, just before i bought her some presumably intelligent but morally bankrupt individual unscrewed and made off with the 3 large monel screws securing the bow metalwork. One can only assume the chandelry was shut and he / she needed them Now!!! ......reminds me of Veruca darling

My next door neighbour had the tinny stolen off the back of his 47 footer while visiting Lake Macquarie. He inflated his
spare rubber ducky and toured around and found it beached, so he retrieved it. He reckoned the local hoods
were really narked when they found someone had nicked the dinghy they'd pinched.

Can I ask the question, Why didn't the police want to know about it?

It sounds like nothing happened to the boat, but I would like to think that if someone moved onto my boat, it wouldn't be up to me to move them on. What would have happened if she got aggressive and told you to piss off?