Kayaks and Gear Stolen

[MikeAqua]

One Wednesday night our kayak trailer complete with kayaks and gear was stolen from our house in Nelson. Thieves defeated 2 padlocks to steal it.

Kayaks were an orange Viking 2+1 and a black and yellow P400. I've lost the book with the serials numbers but notably, black and yellow is a custom colouring for a P400 so its very distinctive. Also has a starport fitted behind the seat, which is non-standard.

Also missing a tackle pod and a black and yellow chill pod.

The trailer (C996E) is a black luggage trailer that has been converted to kayak duty. Notably it has a freshwater washdown system so when that is removed there will be holes in the front and left side panels and the floor. Notably it has Rhino roof rack mounting channel on the roof and havy duty Rhino racks square in profile and about 1400mm wide.

They also took a distinctive DIY gaff made from a ~500mm length of red anodised alloy (from a berkley landing net)

Photos of yaks and trailer below.

The thieve(s) also broke into the house when someone was asleep inside. Disturbingly they did so with a person asleep in the house. Could have gotten really nasty.

[Flowrider]

Bastards . If you are on Facebook chuck a post on the kayak fishing pages get the word around. That is one of the best things about Facecrack

[Kerry]

What a sad buzz! we'll keep an eye out....

[Mental]

Damn that pisses you off

If you bought the kayak direct from Viking they can probably help you out with a serial else have a quick look through your photos as you may have it captured in one of the shots or may be it's 53262?

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[MikeAqua]

I rang Viking. Due to some sort of data loss they only have serial numbers for sales in the last two years and mine is 4 years old.

I think you might be right on the serial # in the photo though. Well spotted.

[AndrewRawlingson]

that sucks, sorry to hear it.

[mullett]

Sorry to hear that mike will keep an eye out, also check on trade me as they might try to sell stuff

[Kayak Rob]

That really stinks dude.

This needs to be shared on the KayakfishingNZ Facebook page then we can share it around in hope of telling more people.

[MikeAqua]

If any of the Nelson guys have a photo of me on the water (from one of the group trips or whatever) I'd really appreciate a copy. There are some things I don't have proof of purchase for (like my PFD) that I could do with a photo of.

BTW a benefit of loyalty cards is they can provide proof of purchase. For example Burnsco printed everything I've bought back to 2010 and I was able to go through and highlight the items taken. Ditto Noel Leeming, Farmers, Kathmandu.

[FatherOfMany]

Sucks Mike, sorry to hear that!

[WaikatoYakka]

Sorry to hear Mike,

That really sucks!

[Schecter]

Sucks big time Mike. There are some useless buggers out there.

[Smeg]

Just the shittiest!! I hope you get these back Mate!

[Dreadfish]

i would suspect that they took the trailer as a convienient way to get the house load of stuff away . they did the same thing when i got robbed many years ago. opened up my work van to load the house items in. lucky for me they were dumb f$%^s and used the key in the door and the alarm went off and my alert neighbor heard the alarm going and investigated and scared them off.

pretty sucky experience though hope it turns out well and you get your stuff back

[MikeAqua]

i would suspect that they took the trailer as a convienient way to get the house load of stuff away . they did the same thing when i got robbed many years ago. opened up my work van to load the house items in. lucky for me they were dumb f$%^s and used the key in the door and the alarm went off and my alert neighbor heard the alarm going and investigated and scared them off.

retty sucky experience though hope it turns out well and you get your stuff back

That was my first thought but they only took little things from inside the house. It's more like they came then back with a car to take the kayak or tipped off an associate who did.

The only stuff I really care too much about is my partner's family heirloom jewellery. That can't be replaced.

[Hairy Little Dwarf]

Typical of the "I Want, So I'll Take" society we have now unfortunately

Pair of eyes up here in the BOI for ya buddy and will put the word out with the yakkers I know in the district.

HLD

[xtreamz]

Wellington Hurricanes colours! Will definitely stick in my mind being that colour so will keep an eye out in Welly for ya.

[petecanaan]

Sorry to hear mike.
Will keep eyes open n spread the word.
That pf400 is pretty distinctive being yellow/black.
Hopefully see you in a new one soon!

[MikeAqua]

Sorry to hear mike.
Will keep eyes open n spread the word.
That pf400 is pretty distinctive being yellow/black.
Hopefully see you in a new one soon!

According to the person I spoke to at Viking it's the only yellow and black P400.

It will be interesting to see what the insurance company offers ...

[xtreamz]

Sorry to hear mike.
Will keep eyes open n spread the word.
That pf400 is pretty distinctive being yellow/black.
Hopefully see you in a new one soon!

According to the person I spoke to at Viking it's the only yellow and black P400.

It will be interesting to see what the insurance company offers ...

What insurance company can I ask? I use to be with State, who told me if my fishing gear got stolen they would pay out an amount of what they think it is worth at the time, whereas AA told me they would replace it with the exact same model, brand new, or unable to, the closest model match they can.