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Well I went to the Camp yesterday and they gave me everything that was taken from my boat!! Even something I did not relize was gone! (Brekly Imatation, Bolga grip)
The guys for some reason shot off all 12 flares. I had said I will settle for no less then 100% of everything they took!! So they bought me 2 new packs of flares. I said there were 12!! and the promply gave me the cash ($10) for the other 3. But 6 were out dated so I made out there.
I even got the key bacK!!

After I got a formal apolige from the 26 year old kid who looked like he was about 16!! and saw how nervos he was I have decided not to press charges.
I know there will be those that say I must!! But this kid is messed up!~!! Big time!! And I did get it all back. Then there is the time I will have to go to court in wareham. Not worth the hassle IMO.

I brought the laptop to work last night and I spent the better part of 3 hours typing up all the GPS numbers to disk just incase this happens again or if it just stops working .

I also took the time to tear out the old dash!! This has been something that has been needed for a long long time!!! I rewired all last season but just never found time to replace the dash.

So here is the old and the new!! I think it looks great!! and wish I did it along time ago.
I got the 1/4 X 9" X 21" Seaboard from a scrap pile behind a local boat place for $10
I have not finished yet but here it is.

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MJ congrats on getting your goods back. **You did the right thing because it is right for you! *Bill Mc ;D

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Well it seems that they owners daughter went to school with him. He had been slipping in from the back gate of the camp grounds and went unnoticed because he did it so much they thought he belonged there.
Anyway she saw him and she had not seen him for a long long time and walked over to his car and say hi.
While talking to him she had noticed a hammer on the seat next to him and aske what it was for? He said that he had saw some kids with masks on down in the storage area and was going to see what they were up to. (this is were the boats and things are kept)
She called the security and they went down to check things out. When they got there the gril and security got out to ck things out and while they were walking around the guy took off!!
They new then that he must be the guy. They were going to call the police the next day as they new were he lived or at least that his family still live at.
The next morning as she was opening the office at around 9am she saw him driving in the front gate!! So she called sucrity and they corned him and try talking to him.
There are two cops, one retired and one active that camp there with there familys and are friends of mine so it worked out good!! They questioned him for sometime and he was almost ready to crack but needed one more push! So the retired cop that is 2 campers from me for 6 years now said I think we should go get joe to talk to him. The other cop said yea that will do it!! The guy said who is Joe. cop said he is the guy you took the stuff from and he is pi$$ and he 6" 2" 320# And the crazy person I no!! When he comes down here you better star praying, we have had tons of problmes with and he will knock you out and ask ?? later!!
Well not to much after that he said he was the one to take it and said he still had all the stuff. But that he had shot off all the flares and that they were gone.
I had given them a list ofstuff that was taken and said nothing less than 100% or I was going to police.

and you no the rest.

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Sounds like the owner's daughter would make a helluva detective. 8)

You oughta do somethin nice for her. :-*

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Good news !! I'm glad it worked out for you. If the kid was wetting himself it's a good bet he's not a hardened criminal. Now,, lets get back to fishing huh ?

- Tom

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Hey MJ, your dash rebuild looks great...from adversity comes greatness...sounds like major skid marks in you thief's jockey shorts..congrats on full recovery!!

I agree with Old Seakindly(that oughta get a rise)...you should do something nice for the girl...she really cracked the case for you...

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Thanks all!! Now if I coukld figure out how to get the darn steering wheel off ??? The darn thing has only been on there 1 1/2 seasons and it is stuck there??? I have a new SS Wheel to put in it place now.

I have been out there installing a new fuse panale and eltronics and now new nav lights.
I need to have it all done as I am on vacation next week and want to fish fish fish~! I need it bad!!

Later

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MJ...hope you got that steering wheel off by now...if not you might have to find a gear-puller to fit...when you put that new SS wheel back on, a little light-weight grease on the steering shaft will make it easier the next time you have to remove it...good luck...