We had torrential rain here in the Hudson Valley again on Friday, 7/31 but it helped us clean up a very dirty little dinghy. Bob tested the motor and the throttle is stuck in high as these pirates wanted to get a fast joyride out of a little 8hp motor. It can be fixed.
Capt. Joe from Hyde Park Marina called us with the name and phone # of the tipster who alerted him and the authorities about the dinghy. Carol and her husband were out with friends on their pontoon boat for an early evening cruise. They had heard the alert about our missing dinghy and spied it amongst the bushes by the Culinary Institute. She said, “You just don’t see dinghies there and it looked so out-of-place. We took a closer look and saw that it matched the description of your missing dinghy so we alerted the Hyde Park Marina.”
These pirates may have intended to use it again and only stopped as they ran out of gas. I would love to have a picture of their faces when they discovered that someone “stole their boat”. Hope they were wearing flip-flops and had a very long walk home. You know that I am thinking way more evil thoughts than that.
Dinghy is back in the brackets and secured to our swim platform and has a new name, Lil'B. Thank you all for the great names that we received. We chose Lil'B as it stands for “little boat”, conveys endearment and goes pretty well with our BIG boat name, Baby Grand.
But Lil' B may be a little confused as on her bottom, we have to put Baby Grand and St. Paul MN. We were stopped by the Albany County Sheriff boat on 8/3 and advised that since we are a documented boat, legally we have to display the boat name and registered homeport visibly. We do have beautiful hand carved boat/port name boards on our transom but our dinghy blocks them. Sorry Lil' B. It's hard to play second fiddle to a baby grand. I’m a little afraid that she will take this very personally and run-away again with pirates.
Capt. Joe from Hyde Park Marina called us with the name and phone # of the tipster who alerted him and the authorities about the dinghy. Carol and her husband were out with friends on their pontoon boat for an early evening cruise. They had heard the alert about our missing dinghy and spied it amongst the bushes by the Culinary Institute. She said, “You just don’t see dinghies there and it looked so out-of-place. We took a closer look and saw that it matched the description of your missing dinghy so we alerted the Hyde Park Marina.”
These pirates may have intended to use it again and only stopped as they ran out of gas. I would love to have a picture of their faces when they discovered that someone “stole their boat”. Hope they were wearing flip-flops and had a very long walk home. You know that I am thinking way more evil thoughts than that.
Dinghy is back in the brackets and secured to our swim platform and has a new name, Lil'B. Thank you all for the great names that we received. We chose Lil'B as it stands for “little boat”, conveys endearment and goes pretty well with our BIG boat name, Baby Grand.
But Lil' B may be a little confused as on her bottom, we have to put Baby Grand and St. Paul MN. We were stopped by the Albany County Sheriff boat on 8/3 and advised that since we are a documented boat, legally we have to display the boat name and registered homeport visibly. We do have beautiful hand carved boat/port name boards on our transom but our dinghy blocks them. Sorry Lil' B. It's hard to play second fiddle to a baby grand. I’m a little afraid that she will take this very personally and run-away again with pirates.
