Incident Date: 2019-07-13 at 04:00
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: nothing, not successful
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 2nd Hand Report
Incident Details: Captain was onboard his yacht but awakened at 0400HRS when his security system detected the attempted theft of his (locked) dinghy. When the thief saw his flashlight and realized he had been discovered he started his engine and departed. No police report was made.
Incident Date: 2019-07-07 at 04:00
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: None
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A cruising catamaran was at anchor just south of L’Ance Guyac point on Canouan. At 04:00 am on 07/07/19, occupants were awoken by a noise on deck and found a man onboard trying to unlock the dinghy, which was raised and secured with a chain. The boarder jumped in the water and disappeared on a small red and white dinghy without a motor.
Incident Date: 2019-07-04 at 03:12
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: None
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Sleeping owners were awakened by a noise on deck and opened a hatch just as their sensor light came on and illuminated a man trying to gain entry to the salon. The intruder jumped overboard. The Coast Guard was notified and arrived after a delay. An unsuccessful search was made of shore, and they took a report. All hatches and companionways were locked at the time of the boarding. All valuable items on deck were also secured and locked.
Incident Date: 2019-05-20 at 03:15
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: nothing, attempted break in though saloon sliding door
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Owners awoke at 03:15 HRS when they heard the door handle on their saloon sliding door being rattled during an attempted breakin. They scared the thief who jumped in the water and disappeared. A police report was made the next day, and a good description of the thief was provided to the SVG police, who seemed aware of this individual and the persistent but unresolved problems in this anchorage.
Incident Date: 2019-04-05 at 01:00
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: None, not successful.
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: On a mooring just north of the Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour entrance, among about 10 other yachts, owners awoke to discover that they had been boarded overnight. Their flag pole had been broken, as well as the sat phone antenna and MOB light/pole. Their in-the-water, but chained dinghy, apparently the target of thieves, remained secured. The owners reported the attempted theft and damage to the paid mooring minder the next morning.
Incident Date: 2019-03-31 at 16:30
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: None
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Motoryacht owners decided to snorkel in an area about 100m from their yacht. They noticed a local open motor boat with one man aboard idling slowly around the anchorage, and saw him tie up to a nearby mooring, jump in, swim to their boat, climb the ladder and enter their salon. They immediately began shouting and swimming back towards their vessel, which alerted others on boats in the anchorage who also began shouting at the intruder, who then jumped off the yacht and swam back to his boat and then motored away. Owners returned to their yacht and used their dinghy to pursue the individual, who had moored off the beach. When confronted he said he “did not steal anything’, and “sorry”. Vessels in the anchorage were notified by VHF, and the marina dock master was provided a picture of the intruder’s boat.
Incident Date: 2019-02-02 at 01:00
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: None
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Overnight, and in-the-water and cable locked dinghy anchored off Reduit Beach had its painter cleanly cut. Owner was onboard all night, and did not hear anything unusual. The theft was not successful. A police report was made.
Incident Date: 2019-01-25 at 21:00
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: theft not successful, thieves slashed tubes
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Thieves attempted to steal an in-the-water, chain locked dinghy, but were not successful. They slashed the tubes before departing. Another dinghy/outboard was stolen the same night from this remote anchorage. A third yacht anchored in this same bay had lifted and locked thier dinghy, and reported no issues.
Incident Date: 2018-11-28 at 14:00
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: none – not successful
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A dinghy was well locked to the dock at the Pirates Nest from 1-4 PM while owners were ashore to check out. When they returned they found one side of a link of the 10mm stainless steel chain had been cut through with bolt cutters, and incomplete cuts were made on the other side of the same link. The yacht departed early the next morning, as planned. A report was made on the VHF net.
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Incident Date: 2018-11-25 at 01:00
Event Type: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: None
Secured: N/A
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Three monohulls were anchored fairly close to each other overnight in Vieux Fort. The crew of the yacht anchored farthest out was concerned about safety and maintained a night watch from the cockpit, and had their motion activated lights at the ready.
At about 1 AM they noticed 3 swimmers, each with a submersible light, as they approached the yacht anchored closest to shore. One of the swimmers began boarding by the stern ladder on the 1st yacht while the other 2 swimmers remained nearby. The observing yacht activated their security lights, and all 3 swimmers lights immediately turned toward the observing yacht, then all 3 of them swam away, passing slowly and close by the 2nd yacht.
After nearly an hour, stopping several times to turn and observe the watching yacht, the swimmers exited at the beach. The yacht departed at first light, and no police report was made.
