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DATE: 2018-01-22 15:00
Country Name: Guadeloupe
Location Detail: Marie Galante St. Louis
EVENT: Theft
HAND: 1
Stolen Items: spare dinghy painter
SECURED: N/A
DETAILS: While at the public dock in St. Louis the spare painter for the dinghy was stolen. It was attached to the bow eye with a sewn closed bowline.
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DATE: 2017-12-01
Country Name: Guadeloupe
Location Detail: Marie Galante
EVENT: Theft
HAND: 2
Stolen Items: dinghy and outboard
SECURED: Not Locked
DETAILS: During the night, an unlocked in-the-water dinghy and outboard were stolen by cutting the line while the crew were asleep aboard, reported to the Gendarmes (police)
DATE: 2017-04-08 02:00
Country Name: Guadeloupe
Location Detail: Marie Galante Grand Bourg
EVENT: Theft
HAND: 2
Stolen Items: dinghy and outboard
SECURED: Not Locked
DETAILS: Overnight a dinghy that was secured with 2 lines, but not locked, was stolen from a yacht anchored outside Grand Bourg. The dinghy was recovered the next day minus the outboard and badly damaged.
DATE: 2015-05-01
Country Name: Guadeloupe
Location Detail: Marina Bas du Fort
EVENT: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: none
SECURED: Locked
DETAILS: At 1 am May 8th, 2015, while stern-to at the Marina Bas du Fort in Guadeloupe, a man boarded our boat and came into our cockpit. Both my husband and myself were woken by the footsteps and confronted the man in the cockpit from behind a locked main cabin door. The man quickly jumped off the boat and ran down the dock letting himself out through the security gate. We called the 24/7 marina number. The person at that number did not speak English. When the marina office opened we contacted them and they were very helpful in relaying our information to the marina management, it is uncertain if marina management contacted the police. It was later learned that other boats had been boarded the same night. As a precaution the owners now adjust their med moor lines at night to move their locked boat further off the dock .
CSSN NOTE: This is the 3rd incident of this type at this marina in 2015.
DATE: 2015-02-05 01:00
Country Name: Guadeloupe
Location Detail: Marina Bas du Fort
EVENT: Attempted Theft
Stolen Items: None, failed
SECURED: N/A
DETAILS: We were Stern-to at pier 6 in Marina Bas-du-Fort (just outside of marina office with large magnetically looked security gates). Someone stepped aboard and lifted up a loose water hose lying on the deck. We pounded hard on one of the main hatches and the person dropped the water hose and ran away. The whole incidence was over very quickly, ca 10 seconds. The Marina’s 24/7 emergency number was called. They spoke poor English and told us to talk with the Marina staff when the office opens the next morning. The Marina told us that they are not responsible for the security and refer to the local police. Reported to Marina.