Incident Date: 2025-02-15 at 21:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: Dinghy engine cover/cowling for a Suzuki 30HP outboard
Secured: Does not apply
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: At 1730HRS a dinghy was well locked to the dinghy dock in Falmouth, its 30HP engine thru bolted to the dinghy. When the owner returned at 2200HRS the engine cover had been stolen.
Incident Date: 2024-04-24 at 20:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: Navigation light on dinghy outboard
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A cruiser returned to the dinghy dock by Momsy Bridge and found that the navigation light affixed to the outboard had been stolen.
Incident Date: 2024-03-07 at 01:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: Dinghy and outboard motor
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Overnight while owners slept on board their in-the-water and not locked dinghy / 6HP Mercury outboard was stolen. There were 2 lines securing the dinghy to the yacht. A police report was made.
Incident Date: 2023-01-28 at 17:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: dinghy / 25HP Yamaha outboard
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A dinghy/25HP engine was stolen from the AYC marina dinghy dock. A report was made to the marina, Coast Guard and Port Captain.
Incident Date: 2023-01-09 at 17:00
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: unsuccessful – attempted theft of dry bag with cash and phones
Secured: Does not apply
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A cruising couple anchored in Carlisle Bay and took the dinghy ashore and beached it on the side of the resort. They visited the public beach and afterwards were briefly questioned by the resort security guard. A young man in school uniform approached and asked them for "help" to use their phone or a ride to his mother on the other side of the bay. They agreed to a ride and when they were close to the shore the young man grabbed their dry bag and tried to escape, but was thwarted when the shocked cruiser pushed him into the water and retook the dry bag. The youth threatened to shoot them, but apparently had no gun and ran off and joined several other youths on the beach. The cruisers returned immediately to their yacht and departed the next morning.
Incident Date: 2022-05-05 at 04:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: Kayak and SUP
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A kayak and a SUP (stand up paddleboard) were both stolen from the deck of an occupied yacht anchored near Pigeon Beach between 0400-0500 HRS. A report was made to the police and coast guard.
Incident Date: 2022-04-28 at 11:42
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: AB10vs dinghy / 18HP Tohatsu
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Dinghy/outboard was cable locked to the dinghy dock by the fuel station. It has since been found in good order anchored off pigeon beach but with the 2ft blue bolt cutters and the cut cable left inside the dinghy. The thief was unable to defeat the locking system that secured the outboard to the dinghy. A police report was made.
Incident Date: 2021-03-09 at 03:15
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: Yamaha 15hp outboard, fuel tank, fuel line, oars
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A yacht in Tank Bay, English Harbour was boarded overnight while the owners slept onboard and the dinghy untied. It was recovered the next morning from the mangrove area minus the 15HP Yamaha outboard,fuel tank, fuel line and oars. A report was made to the marina and the police.
Incident Date: 2021-01-31 at 04:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: Cash
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A monohull was boarded in the early hours of the morning, while 2 persons were asleep onboard. They found the saloon floor soaked in sea water, and cash missing from the top of chart table. No other items were taken. A police report was made. ||CSSN NOTE: Another yacht in the anchorage also experienced a boarder this same night, but noise was heard and it was interrupted and not successful. LINK
Incident Date: 2021-01-31 at 03:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: Cash – taken from a wallet that was inside a dry bag under the nav station
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A yacht anchored off Pigeon beach discovered that they had been boarded while they slept and cash taken from a wallet that was inside a dry bag, under the nav station. Nothing looked amiss and the theft was only discovered when the owners attempted to pay for a meal at a local eatery. Nothing else was taken, and 2 other yachts have reported similar events in Falmouth harbour on this same night. A police report was made.
