How do you secure your boat?

[SoLong]

If I'm not aboard I close the main hatches with the help of a chain and a padlock through an u-bolt near the seats. This solution doesn't please me. Do you have any other idea, to secure the hatch and the "longitudinal bulkhead slide" as they are in use on a tiki 30?

Thanks!

[Rogerio Martin]

Our Tiki 30 have 9 hatches, the stern hatches latch with padlock, the bow and ruff of cabin have internal ss side slides locks( latches stainless steel inside) , and main hatches, have ss side slides locks inside the vertical door and padlock out side the hatches, in Brazil don't have thieves...kkk

[Galway Bay]

You can only I think protect yourself from the casual opportunistic thief. These are light ply boats a thief with any tools will get in. How long would it take with a rechargeable trimming-saw to take the whole cabin top off ?? I use s/s hasp + staple on each hatch with 5 matched small padlocks [take the same key]. Cost approx. e10 per hatch. Many here do not lock at all, many even leave the hatch open or the washboards out. I argue that you should always lock if only to prevent accidents. For instance children could easily enter and turn on the gas. And if the teenagers here are going to get one another pregnant I would be just as happy if they used their own parents homes.

[SoLong]

You are right. It unpossible to secure our boats really. My hatches in the bow and stern are unsecured all the time, through I could secure the hatches in the bow by a line and a cleat from inside. But I'm still looking for a simple solution for the main hatches with the washboards. Isn't there a tricky assembly of an side slide lock to prevent the opening of the hatch and the washboard at the same time?

[kim whitmyre]

I don't have the sliding washboard style hatch, rather:

The forward hatch is secured by a key-locking t-latch, while the aft hatch is secured by a line and cleat from the inside. I'm making new forward hatches that will use the key-locking t-latches.

[laurent]

An idea to secure all the removable electronics and precious at a risked mooring during your excursion or long time absence: store all inside a dry pack, submersible pack, level 5/6, with valve for release air inside, protect the pack in a pvc tube or container dark colored, sink in the water may be with anchor ? Tikiroa as a dagger case opening trough wich i can pass discrately the stringing ... Leave the hatches opened , they wont be broken .
No way for the motor witch is often a target for thieves ? Yes! There is military dry pack for huge guns !
For pirates attack , escape with pedal submarine ?

[laurent]

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