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Found I had a weak battery last weekend. Port motor wouldn't start, blower was barely running.
Pulled the battery out and found an off branded battery that I didn't install. Delstar battery.
3 years ago I bought 2 Sears Diehard batteries. When I checked by reciepts, I showed 2 batteries from Sears. No Delstar battery.
I don't remember every changing out the Sears battery, Sears is just a couple blocks from the boat yard, they are too convienent.
I work 2 weeks away from home and off work for 2 weeks. I am thinking someone swapped batteries with me. An old one for a good one.
Now I am thinking about installing a game camera on the boat to see who or if anyone is going on her when I am at work.
I am thinking it may be one of the 2 liveaboards there, one is a real strange dude, the other looks to be normal.
Of all the boats there, only about 15% use them, the rest just sit there and never move, so I don't think it would be the boats that hardly ever move out.
CHanging out the batteries is not easy on my boat. You have to lay down on the deck and hang into the engine room.
 
Weird. But I guess anything is possible in this economy. Get the camera and install a sign notifying people that it's in use I guess.
 
"Get the camera and install a sign notifying people that it's in use I guess."

Then they will, ahem, take the camera, too.
 
I can't imagine any scenario in which a thief would steal one of your batteries, and then leave you a replacement; they would have just taken your battery. Did you have work done in a shop? Pay for storage somewhere that removed the batteries and re installed? Sure sears didn't sell you the Delstar?
 
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Originally posted by Radioactive

"Get the camera and install a sign notifying people that it's in use I guess."

Then they will, ahem, take the camera, too.

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Guess he'll need two cameras then.
 
Yeah on the Camera. It seems like you swapped batteries with someone while you weren't looking.
 
Install the camera OR the sign... no need for both.
 
Years ago someone stole the battery off my previous boat. This was a regular battery without the wingnut screw on posts. The thief broke off one of the lead posts as the lead was still in the connector when I found the battery missing. I could not figure what he could do to make that battery usable after that but he still took it.
 
My guess is that the battery was stolen. They replaced it with their marginal one so it would take you some time to realize the switch. It could have been days or weeks ago. I wouldn't bother with the camera because it will just be the target of vandalism. You have the same boat as I do and I know there is little you can do to guard those access covers. Even if you did fabricate a lock, it's nothing a screwdriver and hammer wouldn't tear into inside of 5 seconds. At least you know the battery was 3 years old and you got the best part of its life.
 
And strategicly placed single edged razor blades would do nothing but get you sued.....

RWS
 
We had a power cord swapped out years ago when the economy was good. Brand effin new and gone.
 
Put up a camera in plain sight. Actually the camera is a dummy. Hide the real camera where you can catch glimpse of the person who will try to disable the fake one.
 
Wouldn't work for batteries but many years someone was stealing gas... One of the local fishermen put a full gas can in plain view in his boat, with about 1 gal of gas and the rest water. Sure enough, they found the culprit's car the next day...
 
I'm thinking large caliber and unannounced inspections.
 
I work 2 weeks away from home, offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.
I can hide a game camera in the rafters. I am in a covered slip.
I know the owners of the boat yard are good friends, so I am sure it wasn't them. I do most
of my own work. The boat had Sears batteries in it when I bought it, so I replaced them with
Sears batteries. I am sure, I still have the receipt.
I am thinking it may have been a fisherman who got up early and couldn't start his engine.
Or one of the liveaboards on one of the sail boats. They can watch everything.
We haven't had any liveaboards in a while. These guys are strange. Don't talk to anyone. Don't
look at anyone face to face.
I am pretty sure it wasn't the boats with diesel engines. It was a group 27 battery.
 
I had a friend who purchased a new 340 sundancer. He's a pilot so he was gone alot. One day he called me over to his boat and showed me his cockpit carpets. They were clearly changed out with older set. The set in his boat were very warn and had a small wine stain. But the real telling tail was one of the carpets was cut just a little different and the location of a few of the snaps were off.
 
A friend of mine was deprived of this two Bose brand
stern deck speakers. The thief actually disassembled
the speakers, took the drivers and reinstalled the
empty boxes back in place. At first we thought it was
a bad prank but it wasn't.
Go figure....
 
xx once had a moving company at xxxxxx who was moving offices in the same building. They discovered some booze in a storage closet that was shared with xxxxx. It was noticed that the bottles were being slowly emptyed.

So, xx poured at the booze and replaced it with xxxxx, freshly brewed from my buddy xxxxx. Suddenly the booze theft ceased.

Since I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations has run out, I'll just say that this story might be true, you never know.
 
My wife put colored ty-wraps on the hatch handles to see if someone tries to open the hatches while we are gone.
 
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