One way to steal a locked kayak

Very Kool!!!!!!

  Sorry you've been violated,

  Glad your back in

 Danglin

Sux about the damage but congrats on getting it back! Fish oooooon!!

Z

Good to see you got your gear back, although it sucks to have the damage.  This is a good lesson learned about locking up our yaks. I now own a cable and lock. 

I think you have to put some kind of bling cap on the bow of your boat now. Like a big gold cap to cover the scrape!

GREAT news, Nate! I like Bill's suggestion for the "battle scar," too!

Janice aka "Big J"

Right on... Nate.  I bet you're glad that cool T160 came through unscathed.  That P13 damage should be no big deal considering the location of the scrape.  Bummer about the car damage and missing stereo, but who cares about that anyways.

I think you have to put some kind of bling cap on the bow of your boat now.

We actually had things like that for the fiberglass SIKs in Alaska. They were to prevent gelcoat chips from ice near the glaciers. My old Prijon Yukon tour was plastic but it came with a cool heavy duty armor piece riveted on the bow. It might look neat on an SOT...

 I kept waiting for the good news. So glad you got out with out to much damage. Randall

Good to hear you got your stuff back, more or less... In a perfect world, the bums that stole your car and boosted your stereo and fishfinder will have traded those electronics for some bad heroin to OD on and die a painful death.  I'm very pro-drug when the drugs are used by junkies to OD...

Well at least the good guy didn't get totally screwed. Glad you got your yaks back.
Go to the thrift store and buy an old iron for a buck. It will smooth out the scrape.
Just make quick strokes with the iron over the frayed portions with extremely light pressure. Set the iron on low and move it quickly, never pausing on one spot.
It will smooth out the rough spots and from there you can tell a lot easier if there needs any patch work done.

  I wonder what size trebble one would use to trol those P.O.S. thief's in shark waters?  Rigging them wouldn't be a problem!  I'm so glad you were able to get your kayaks and most of your gear back.
  OK gotta ask what cable / lock saved your kayaks?

Troy

Damn Nate, I just read this thread for the first time and holy s*** what a story! Very glad you got 'em back What kind of lock is it you have?!

Good to hear, Nate. I'm sure glad I have the same lock. Nate showed me his lock and told me where to find it. I bought one a few weeks later.

You can find them at ACE hardware. I think they are made by Master Locks, it's called Phyton. It retails for about 25 bucks plus tax. A great investment.

Yup, its called a "python", made by MasterLock.  I found out about them on an older thread here.  All the info Pat provided is right on.

Way cool I felt your pain before im glad it all worked out

just finding this today and it started out F#$*ing BAD!....
Glad it ended in a not TOO-bad way....DUDE THAT MUST HAVE SUCKED!!..and still does!