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Boat Buyers Beware...Mysterton Mystery


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Be aware that 6 boats have gone missing from Mysterton Marina and are being offered for sale to unsuspecting buyers.

One of the boats had a deposit taken and was ready to be moved to a new location by the buyers. The boats name had a single digit changed.

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'NERYS' 'CATKIN'
- registered number 73670 with Lister engine 30ft day boat registered number 65968 - photograph awaited

'PEERESS' 'KERRY'
- steel narrowboat registered number 52907 41ft steel narrowboat registered number 73235 powered by Isuzu diesel engine


'COUNTESS II' 'CHIRBURY'
March 2017 C816472
55ft steel narrowboat registered number 50689 57ft steel narrowboat registered powered by Isuzu diesel engine number 509159 powered by Beta Marine diesel engine - photograph awaited

 

Sorry , copy and pasted from a pdf.

 

 

And to keep you all happy...

SIX NARROWBOATS MISSING FROM MAESTERMYN MARINE near Oswestry - reported 10th March 2017 Shropshire Police crime reference 241SEO8317

 

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2 hours ago, matty40s said:

Be aware that 6 boats have gone missing from Mysterton Marina and are being offered for sale to unsuspecting buyers.

One of the boats had a deposit taken and was ready to be moved to a new location by the buyers. The boats name had a single digit changed.

 

This bit seems puzzling. If stolen, how do you know sale of them is being attempted? Can't a policeman apply to buy one and arrest the seller?

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Bit difficult to imagine how they were taken. If moved by water, even a single boat is a bit hard to lose in that part of the Llangollen. On the other hand, lifting six boats to move by land will entail using a specialist boat mover, not the sort of thing to be done without the right gear. Also likely to be spotted on the roads, such as they are around there! dmr might well have the right line . . . 

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55 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

This bit seems puzzling. If stolen, how do you know sale of them is being attempted? Can't a policeman apply to buy one and arrest the seller?

A SE based broker was asked to lift one of the boats in, and had already got the pdf on Saturday so let the buyer know to contact police.

Another had been spotted on the Coventry, if the pdf had been properly circulated on Friday, I would have seen it, as I have done that run on Sunday, Monday 

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I've seen a couple of them heading south. Still painted and sign written for the hire company. There was a thread on here a few weeks ago about them all being up for sale. Proper advert on the Internet etc. I assumed the ones I saw had the happy new owners on board.

 

This seems strange.

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Seems very odd, Maestermyn went into administration back end of 2016. In January 2017 approx 13 of the boats were advertised on Boats and Outboards, all accurately described in terms of year built, engine specs, interior layout etc (worked there several years ago so know the boats). An open day was held to allow viewing, hence keys, documentation etc would assume to be available. The marina site itself is now for sale, a Google search on marine business for sale in Shropshire should find it. The property sale includes the same boats previously advertised separately. As someone else has commented probably a disputed ownership issue with the receiver(s), rather than theft. 

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7 minutes ago, Exturnaroundman said:

Seems very odd, Maestermyn went into administration back end of 2016. In January 2017 approx 13 of the boats were advertised on Boats and Outboards, all accurately described in terms of year built, engine specs, interior layout etc (worked there several years ago so know the boats). An open day was held to allow viewing, hence keys, documentation etc would assume to be available. The marina site itself is now for sale, a Google search on marine business for sale in Shropshire should find it. The property sale includes the same boats previously advertised separately. As someone else has commented probably a disputed ownership issue with the receiver(s), rather than theft. 

if it were a dispute with the receivers why would they be on a stolen boat site? http://stolenboats.org.uk/

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1 minute ago, Graham Davis said:

How much checking does that site do checking how "correct" the reports are?
Do we have a Police Crime number for these?

they have a stolen boat ID and were only put on the site 10th march, btw the submit button don't work when you try to make a report.

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10 minutes ago, GoodGurl said:

if it were a dispute with the receivers why would they be on a stolen boat site? http://stolenboats.org.uk/

Because who ever is selling the land believes the boats were part of the sale, but some other company believed they had them. This isn't boat theft in the normal sense of some scumbag breaking into a boat and taking it away, fraud it may be possibly ? Probably end up in the courts.

 

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9 minutes ago, GoodGurl said:

they have a stolen boat ID and were only put on the site 10th march, btw the submit button don't work when you try to make a report.

Isn't there a Police Crime number in #2 or do you mean some other sort of number I am unaware of?

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1 minute ago, Jerra said:

Isn't there a Police Crime number in #2 or do you mean some other sort of number I am unaware of?

Description: 'Catkin' - 30ft steel narrowboat - more info to follow 
Stolen Boats ID: 6241 
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2 minutes ago, Jerra said:

Isn't there a Police Crime number in #2 or do you mean some other sort of number I am unaware of?

Indeed there is in the second posting here, but it wasn't exactly obvious!!

""Shropshire Police crime reference 241SEO8317""

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1 hour ago, Exturnaroundman said:

There is no Shropshire Police. Shropshire is covered by the West Mercia Constabulary.

I know, but that is what is quoted in reply 2, above. 

As has been said by others, something in this "story" doesn't add up.

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A crime number really isn't strong evidence that a crime has taken place, you just phone the police, tell them something has occurred and get a crime number. In many cases the police will not do any investigation at all. Though the need to get a crime number might deter some people where they know there is no real crime (domestic ownership dispute etc), I suspect that as long as someone thinks a crime might possibly have been committed they will probably be comfortable to report it to the police and get the crime number,that is probably the case here.

...............Dave

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2 hours ago, junior said:

As somebody else has said, there is no such thing as 'Shropshire Police'. 

The plot thickens.

Could it not just be a case of sloppy use of terms/names.  I note the Shropshire Star begins an article with the title "Shropshire Police Dog Campaign"  but the first words in the article are "West Mercia Police".

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