I had a Baja fuel filter stolen (had cost me $100) and a plastic flares tub full of pepper/mace sprays, purchased in and brought back from the US over the years. I am sure it was an opportunist theft: someone had come to my boat to speak to the engineer whom he thought was working there, but found he had gone back to his workshop leaving my boat wide open. Moral: try to make sure your boat is always locked. Sad, isn't it, that it should be necessary? The filter I can replace, but the "defensive weapons" no: we can't buy them here. As a single-hander, and no longer young, and a woman, I was feeling very happy that I had them, in case I should ever need them in some far away place. Now I feel much less confident about going to "exotic" places. Perhaps I should just settle for sitting in the cockpit and guarding my boat in Sunny Soton and forget about Venezuela or wherever!
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Stolen from my boat in Southampton.
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