stealth1

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Where i park my stuff in a secured, gated and well lit with plenty of surveilance cameras facility in Boca, theives cut loose some of the chain link fence backed up with THICK ficus trees to enter yard one night. They targeted all the Yamaha lower units and stainless props, directly underneath the security cameras and bright lighting, and were not concerned at all as they casually worked in shorts and flip flops and not concealing their faces. I watched the videos provided to the police, and despite the perps looking directly up into the cameras as they walked by with the lower units in arm, the cops have not made any arrests.

One of the insurance companies said that in another South Florida facility they cover, perps have hit it over 13 times.

Jupiter Sunsation

I had a buddy meet me at a ramp to ride jet skiis, he was driving a company truck. They stole the truck and recovered it (GPS) but of course the tools were all gone....they even took the pencils out of the center console! He unfortunately got fired after that. GPS showed the truck was stolen about 15 minutes after we pulled away from the ramp on the jet skiis.

BUP

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Many boats do not need a key to start them. Can not tell you how many boat owners forget their keys when bringing their boats in for service. I have all the master sets for Mercruiser and Volvo. Believe or not one key can work for the ignition that does not even look the same as the original key that came with the boat. Also hand held remote starters can start alot of marine engines when connected correctly. I use these alot back on the engine side especially checking compression on each cylinder and so on.
Very easy to start marine engines without keys. Not all but at least 75 % running around.

Ta12sec

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Someone on this thread asked about my gps. Here is a link to the unit. http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=128 it's 100.00 and the service is 100.00 a year. If the boat moves more then 10 feet from where it's parked I get a email, and a text message. Then it tracks the boats location every 5 minutes until it stops for 10 minutes. When the boat moves it goes back to tracking mode. The lithium Aa battery lasts about 11 months. I'm super happy with the service and just bought another one for my hot rod.

Also side note, when I was broke down in the bahamas and i had to leave it for a week. I zip tied the shift innterupt switch and took the coil wire.

buck35

Okay, in one thread you say flatida is the best and in the next everything gets stolen within minutes.
The simple fact that I'm not worried all the time makes some cold weather well worth the price of plowing the driveway and shoveling the walk.
Florida is a beautiful place but not without it's own issues.

Waterboy123

Sea Doo have had coded lanyards for years, put the wrong one in and she's a no go... Seeing as bombardier is the parent company you'd think it'd be fairly easy to work this into their outboard product line.

Jupiter Sunsation

You might have me confused with someone else........I've lived here for over 40 years and it is far from perfect.

Floriduh has the best weather in the country in the winter, however it also has everyone else's deadbeats too! Can't make it in Hometown, USA? Move to Florida because you had a great vacation there 17 years ago! Lots of people feel their zip code is their problem so if they move they will get a fresh start. The problem is they don't change, their problems follow them to Florida and in most cases they don't have the friends/family network they did in Hometown, USA which makes Florida that much harder for them.

tommymonza

Yep

My old mom used to say

Florida is a place where a lot of people move to who couldn't,t make it anywhere else.

Lol guess that includes me moving here at 21.

502ss

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Silly question....How do you disable the device when you want to use your boat? I looked on there website but it doesn't really say! Hopefully you can do it from the app and not actually have to press the power button on the physical device?

Ta12sec

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I don't, I get messages when it comes off the rack and if I park somewhere and then move again and it tracks the boat while I run it. You can turn it off with the app.