Incident Date: 2025-05-28 at 23:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: Dinghy / outboard, fuel tank/hose
Secured: secured – locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Overnight while owners slept onboard, a thief stole their in-the water and chain locked dinghy/outboard. They also boarded the anchored yacht and stole the fuel tank/hose from the cockpit. ||A report was made to the marina.
Incident Date: 2025-05-29 at 03:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: Cash
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Cruisers were awoken at 0300HRS by their barking dog. They found that a thief had entered the catamaran through the unlocked but closed sliding door. Cash was stolen from the nav station.
Incident Date: 2025-05-24 at 11:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: dinghy / 15HP Yamaha 2S (later recovered)
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A dinghy tied to the Oasis dock was stolen during the daytime. Several searches were conducted and it was recovered from a "hidden" area.
Incident Date: 2025-05-24 at 16:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: dinghy / outboard, dinghy later recovered
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 2nd Hand Report
Incident Details: An unlocked dinghy / outboard was stolen during daylight hours from the Government dock. The dinghy minus the outboard was found the next morning.||No further details are available.
Incident Date: 2025-05-19 at 01:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: 25HP Yamaha outboard
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Overnight thieves stole the 25HP Yamaha outboard from a hoisted dinghy. No one was onboard at the time.
Incident Date: 2025-05-22 at 01:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: hard dinghy / 6HP Mercury outboard
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: Overnight thieves stole an in-the-water and not locked dinghy / 6HP Mercury from an occupied yacht. The painter had been cut. ||6HP Mercury outboard Model 1FX6201KK SN 1R201332
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: 2025-05-14 at 23:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: Red panga "Casa de Tortugas"
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 2nd Hand Report
Incident Details: The red panga “Casa de Tortugas” was stolen from the dock at the northern end of Isla Popa. || It is not know if a police report was made.
Incident Date: 2025-05-03 at 04:30
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: 2023 West Marine RIB-260, Mercury 8HP-2S outboard (dinghy recovered)
Secured: Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A singlehanded cruiser arrived Chaguaramas in the afternoon and took a mooring. Their in-the-water and cable locked dinghy was stolen between 0400-0700HRS. Both the rope painter and cable were cleanly cut. A police report will be made. ||UPDATE: police recovered the (engineless) dinghy||Dinghy HIN CNWMPEX074L223 – POXS2092
Incident Date: 2025-04-27 at 15:00
Event Type: Theft
Stolen Items: dinghy/outboard (unsuccessful) and fuel tank (recovered)
Secured: Does not apply
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: In broad daylight at 1500HRS owners heard noise and went topside to discover that 2 men were attempting to steal their in-the-water and (currently) not locked dinghy. Once discovered the men grabbed the dinghy fuel tank and departed in their open boat, leaving the yacht's dinghy/outboard behind. Other boats nearby captured the activity on video. The crew pursued the thieves open boat with assistance from a nearby yacht and recovered the fuel tank, sustaining injuries (a broken foot). A report was made to the police (Aeronaval) and they offered first aid.
