Tag: Saint Lucia Archives

Incident Date: 2026-01-03 at 03:00

Event Type: Theft

Stolen Items: Outboard Motor (Yamaha 15HP Serial Number 1079573)

Secured: Not Locked

Source Type: 1st Hand Report

Incident Details: Owners were asleep onboard their catamaran and anchored off Reduit Beach in Rodney Bay, St. Lucia. The dinghy was lifted in the davits. Thieves stole the 15HP Yamaha outboard from the dinghy transom, it was not locked.

A police report was made.

Incident Date: 2025-12-28 at 01:00

Event Type: Theft

Stolen Items: Dinghy

Secured: Locked

Source Type: 2nd Hand Report

Incident Details: Overnight an in-the-water and locked dinghy was stolen from a yacht berthed in the Rodney Bay marina. Another yacht in another section of the marina was similarly affected (see 3673)

Both dinghies were found the next day in other parts of the marina.

Incident Date: 2025-12-28 at 01:00

Event Type: Theft

Stolen Items: Dinghy (High field 3.4 with center console)

Secured: Locked

Source Type: 1st Hand Report

Incident Details: A yacht berthed in Rodney Bay marina awoke to find their in-the water and locked dinghy had been stolen overnight. A report was made to the marina, police and Coast Guard. Another yacht in the marina had a similar experience.

Both dinghies were found the next day, tied in other parts of the marina. See 3674

Incident Date: 2025-11-22 at 00:00

Event Type: Theft

Stolen Items: Fuel Tank, Other: 1 jerry can of gasoline , and 1 jerry can of diesel

Secured: Not Locked

Source Type: 1st Hand Report

Incident Details: Overnight while the owners slept onboard, two jerry cans of fuel were stolen from the deck of a yacht anchored in Rodney Bay. The lines securing the jugs were cut. Five similar jugs were left behind.

Incident Date: 2025-05-21 at 01:00

Event Type: Theft

Stolen Items: Fishing rod and reel

Secured: Does not apply

Source Type: 1st Hand Report

Incident Details: A fishing rod/reel were stolen from the rod holder of moored yacht's stern rail.

Incident Date: 2024-11-21 at 20:25

Event Type: Theft

Stolen Items: Cash, credit cards and phone

Secured: Not Locked

Source Type: 1st Hand Report

Incident Details: A yacht arrived in Soufriere and took a mooring. They visited friends on a neighboring yacht for about 2 hours that evening. They did not lock the yacht and on their return discovered that they had been boarded. The thief entered the salon and stole cash, credit cards and a phone which had been left on a table. A report was made in person to the local police. The police and a Soufriere Marine Management Area (SMMA) ranger then visited the yacht.

Incident Date: 2024-10-13 at 01:00

Event Type: Theft

Stolen Items: dinghy / outboard

Secured: Locked

Source Type: 1st Hand Report

Incident Details: Overnight while the owner slept, thieves stole the yacht's dinghy/outboard. The in-the-water dinghy was chain locked to the swim platform. No police report was made.

Incident Date: 2024-08-07 at 03:53

Event Type: Theft

Stolen Items: Cash, life raft (later recovered, deployed) and cockpit chartplotter/radar display cover

Secured: Not Locked

Source Type: 1st Hand Report

Incident Details: At about 0400HRS the owner/crew of a yacht berthed on a private dock opposite the marina were awakened when they heard a hissing noise. They discovered their companionway boards (not locked) had been removed. They turned on deck lights and searched the dock area and noticed a blinking light ashore. It was coming from their stolen life raft, which had been deployed in the adjacent vacant lot. The cover on the cockpit plotter/radar display was also stolen as well as all of the cash from a wallet left in a pants pocket in the salon.||The police were called and arrived 2 hours later to take a report. They noticed 2 sets of footprints near the stolen (but recovered) life raft. The police indicated they would survey for video footage.

Incident Date: 2024-05-08 at 03:30

Event Type: Theft

Stolen Items: 2 x fishing rods

Secured: Not Locked

Source Type: 1st Hand Report

Incident Details: Owners were awakened in the early hours when they heard noises from an outboard engine. They looked through a portlight and saw a thief onboard their yacht removing a fishing rod from its holder. The thief departed before they were able to get to the deck, when it was noticed he had stolen 2 rods. ||A second boat had their outboard engine stolen the same night. See report 3309.