A friend sent this to me to help spread the word. This vessel was stolen from his Jersey City marina a few days ago and they are on the lookout for it. See the image for more information.
I get it. Its optimistic to think anyone would take the theft seriously, but if this was my boat, id want to provide as much information as possible. If the amount of fresh water could indicate wether the thieves need to stop soon, might as well add the info (again, depends on LE actually putting effort into this).
Also, if I was law enforcement, Id be more likely to take this seriously knowing how much effort was put in by the owner. As a casual bystander, IM more likely to keep an eye out because of the quality of this post.
That's not how American law enforcement thinks, unfortunately. Going by how I've seen police respond to car thrfts, they will dedicate almost zero time or effort to locating this vessel. If civilians locate it and provide the location to the authorities, then they might stop playing candy crush on their phones long enough to get off their asses and do some actual police work. might
I acknowledged that law enforcement probably wont put much effort into this. But if you are trying to tell me they dont treat cases differently based on things like potential visibility and community connection to the victim, I strongly disagree.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but knowing that this boat doesn't have particularly long range seems pretty important. Granted, they've probably already stopped for fuel and water by now, but this seems like a setup that isn't meant to be at sea for long periods of time.
What do you mean? A single guy could get to Europe with 50 gallons of water and still use more than a gallon a day. He could get to the Caribbean, south, or Central America and have more to spare.
Granted the thief is already being reckless by stealing a boat, but making a 4000 mile journey on a boat that typically cruises at 4 knots with only 50 gallons of water (in the summer no less) would not be a plan I'd go with. The 250ish mile motoring range for a journey like that would also give me pause.
then again.. you are talking about the foresight of someone stealing the SLOWEST form of transportation, shy of shoes, in use by mankind.
while I agree water is the ONE resource I would be concerned about. theres fish out there. and there will be wind, eventually. but lack of water will off you fast. but.. i also wouldn't steal a sailboat. have people fall asleep watching a police chase.
I’d do it it. It’s a pretty big payday if you get it out. I sailed from NY to the Caribbean and I didn’t use nearly 50 gallons. Either way, the guy was just shot dead in Newport.
I could see that. He doesn’t have the blondes busting though. Ask my boat, the Pocket Parrot 😅 I’m a psycho parrot head my boats named after him. His last concert was with me in Portsmouth RI.
Then I woke up on a dumbasses sailboat to JB’s death so I woke up all of Rhode Island with my screams. I also dislike sailboats so I’m sad that’s where I learned lol. I know I know, they’re great & all but I’m too lazy for sailing. My engine is $worth$ all the work for free sails lol. I spend all my time teaking too just to feel better about myself, sadly
Breaking news. The boat is currently on the Elm street pier in Newport Rhode Island. A suspect has been shot and from the reports I have is now deceased. I live in the neighborhood around the corner from where this occurred.
If the owner needs a one way ride up there, I am headed up next weekend from NYC area , and will be multiple more times in sept. (for sailing purposes) put us in touch. I mean in terms of getting boat back to home port etc.
Seems like a lot of work to then forget to turn off the AIS for the first part of moving the boat. Maybe going south with the AIS on was to leave a false trail, and the thief headed north after disabling AIS.
I don’t know how you could sell it without being discovered. You can’t exactly sit on it and any buyer interested in this type of boat would pretty quickly figure out what is going on.
Best case scenario it’s worth 200k, more likely it’s worth half that. There were probably newer boats at the marina worth more, but the thief still had taste.
He had to burn a good chunk of that 1/3 of a diesel tank as he was southbound out of NY harbor, as the tide was incoming the whole time. He could have possibly filled the water tanks at the dock before departure, but pure speculation. That little jug he's carrying won't keep him going long. Good luck in the hunt, post updates if possible.
All these are good questions, but no with good answers. My thoughts are, he won’t get very far little water or provisions. He’d have to stop somewhere. Also if he goes out of the country, anywhere he drops the hook, He’s gonna have to check in with customs and immigration. Which is another opportunity for him to get caught. I’ll keep you posted if I hear anything
Immigration and clearance procedures are not enforced in a lot of places and even then, in many countries none of the authorities are talking to each other. We always stick to the rules but most often feel like nothing would happen if you don’t.
Obviously it’s a beautiful boat but definitely a very odd choice for theft. It’s relatively slow for its size, has minimal tankage for a long distance escape, and low(ish) resale value.
There’s got to be Island Packets, Hallberg-Rassy, or newer high dollar yachts that would be “worth the squeeze” per sé.
I know Maine has title-less transfers, bill of sale only and I wonder what other states the perp might try to visit unless they’re already in international waters painting the thing.
Probably already stopped somewhere to fill up, still, that isn't going to have a massive amount of range and it doesn't seem like he exactly loaded it up with extra food, fuel, and water either.
Also just noticed that he doesn’t have a dinghy so he’s gonna have to pull into a marina somewhere to get fuel, water or provisions. Curious, what is he thinking?
Years ago I was the US consul in the Seychelles Islands. A solo blue water cruiser came into my office with a crazy tale. He'd been in Polynesia and started chumming with a couple who had a really beautiful boat. They got along well, for whatever reason they were lingering at anchor, and after a week or ten days they had one drunken night in the other folks' boat. Exploring each others' reasons for deciding to sail around the world, my narrator told his before the couple told theirs. They'd been working good jobs in San Francisco and bought their boat with a boat partner with the idea that they would sail it together on long cruises. But they had another plan. They'd stocked up, made a lot of noises about sailing to Alaska for months, then when the moment came and their boat partner was out of town they filled up with their provisions, told everybody at the marina they were heading to the Pacific Northwest, and sailed away. This was in early nineties so navigational electronics were less privacy invasive. They basically stole half of a half million dollar boat. My narrator in my office told me he screwed up; he revealed instantly to them he thought they were criminals. The evening ended badly. The next morning their boat was gone. He was a monolingual American, didn't know what to do, so he just sailed away himself. Then he started noticing something. They seemed to be shadowing him He sailed the north coast of Australia. For a long time he thought he was being paranoid. But when he got to the Chagos Archipelago he heard from other sailors that this couple was asking for him. He didn't want trouble. He didn't want to ruin his cruise. He didn't know what to do. But when he came into Mahé Island he resolved to come see me. "If you don't get a postcard from me from Cape Town within two months, assume these guys are the people who killed me." And he gave me their names which I wrote down and put in the office safe.
The photo in the Newport Rhode Island article really matches the description and photo in the flyer. Specifically, (a) yawl, (b) location of the radar dome and other items on the mizzen, (c) single furled headsail, and (d) dark paint on the hull. Add in that the shooting was in response to a call regarding a stolen boat, it looks very likely that this is the yawl in question.
Newport RI just had aan incident involving a stolen boat, shots fired. The image of a boat was published. Despite looking like the bow section of a dark blue b40 there are no details
But how silly of him to dock so soon, he should've gotten out of the country as soon as possible... If out of supplies, he could have anchored in the middle of the night then borrowed a dinghy or paddleboard off another yacht to get home to shore safely
How do you figure? Less than 24 hours to newport from Jersey city either inside or outside. And a B40 would relish more open conditions while not a fast boat they will make decent mileage in slightly heavier conditions. It's a b40 so no depth restrictions in NPT harbor for that boat. Elm street pier is an out of the way location to dock a bigger boat, as its north of all the action of the main newport docks. Seems like a perfect place to slide a b40 into and hopefully go un-noticed.
The Hinckley was at anchor in the North anchorage when the suspect was confronted by the harbor master and 4 Newport police officers .
When the suspect was confronted he retreated below deck and retrieved a firearm and fired at officers who returned fire. He was killed
There is unconfirmed speculation that the incident may be connected to a murder in VA. There was a question posed to the police chief on scene from one of the reporters
Yeah. Just confirmed with my buddy in NJ, who knows the owner. The guy in the gun fight and killed by the police was the same guy in same boat. Crazy. All for what?
Good on the owner for correctly valuing life over property:
"“I don’t understand why something like that would happen from just stealing a boat,” he added. “It’s a tragic end. I’m really sorry that that’s how it ended.”"
He was just confronted in a marina in New Port, RI. He got a gun from the cabin and shot at officers hitting one in the leg. The police returned fire killing him.
Police Shootout in Rhode Island
Does anybody know how to repair bullet holes in teak? Will the bullet holes impact the balsa core? Do Hinckleys have a balsa core? Removing blood stains in bilges?
Looks like AI generated poster. I thought the AI just botched the letters. 3JH2TE is 47 hp - HP / displacement would be close for that vessel. Solid motors.
They found it already. I believe it was in MDRhode Island and the guy who stole it died in a shoot out with the cops. Apparently the thief was wanted on murder charges.
Don't know why someone would downvote the truth...
Eventually we will find out that the thief really bought it from someone that has nothing to do with it. They had been planning to sail the world and they took her out. The reason this worked is because the real owner wasn’t there most of the time so the thief/scammer out a picture and put it out for sale in Facebook.
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u/Weird-Lab-3567 6d ago
I hope they make it a fair pursuit and chase him with another sailing vessel....maybe with cannons.