My wave sailing kit has been stolen from Mandurah terrace early this morning. Consists of:

92 L JP quad
3 piece skinny ezzy mast 400/430
Chinook boom
5.2 & 5.7 severne swat sails
6'6 Byrne thruster surfboard
Board travel bags

No sailing for me down south, bummer. Please call Baz on ######## if found cheers and happy new year.

its all on gumtree right now

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/mandurah/surfing/wind-surfer/1035530096

call the cops!

PM and text sent!

I can't believe that. At least the muppet has put it on GumTree and you can hopefully retrieve it. Good luck getting it back

We should ask Laurie to create a sticky thread on stolen gear, description, board serial numbers etc.
It could provide the shop owners and prospective buyers a place to check before they buy, and hopefully put the thieves off.

I still have he ad open in the window.

its a 2001 JP quad 92. not many around since reg didnt get any 2011 quads in (to my great disgust!) so very easy to spot!
the seaial number is easily read off the pic and is 10141107006

Great work Bertie, I hope it worked out for Bipolarbaz with gear back undamaged and thieves charged.

this reminds me of a friends story. Many years ago he spend 3 months over winter in Tarifa. He had a friend from Germany come down to visit over Christmas. On the second last night his friends custom board was stolen from the roof of their motorhome. It was near new and the only one picked from about 6 boards all in bags.

They reported it to police but no success in retrieving the board. About 5 weeks later my friend was having breakfast in a cafe in town when this guy walks up and asks if he is interested in buying a used near new custom board. Surprise surprise it was the very same board that had been stolen several weeks ago. Let's just say he didn't bother calling the police... I'll let your imagination run wild as to what happened next.

Good luck Bipolarbaz! I hope you get your gear back.

Windxtasy said..

Mark _australia said..



I am interested to see he talks about Reg getting in JP boards. That is not like the usual dude who breaks into cars and steals whatever



The thief is obviously into watersports and that is a concern. When caught please OUT HIM for all of us.

I think that's Bertie saying that...

don't mind me

www.seabreeze.com.au/Classifieds/Windsurfing-Boards/~a_s12/JP-Australia-2012-Twinster-Quad-92-7-7-92-litres.aspx?search=3s!zLRvniMZUZw85kIByIyg!AFNvGvIn

Gear now for sale on seabreeze!

What a tool!

I hate to think they are all too busy tryign to catch the "criminals" who are driving 55kmh in the 50kmh zone...

Any policemen in our ranks?

All excitement from the start by ol Bipolarbaz
Since then, anybody else notice ol Bipolarbaz hasnt said a bloody thing, no updates, no thanks no bloody zilch!!!! Very very strange indeed
The main man watching and keen, is Bertie who should be thanked for his diligent on keeping the matter on the front burner.
So lo mate Bipolarbaz be in cahoots with the seller.....maybe.....? and just monitoring the level of scrutiny til it blows over, but up some crap contact details then make a quick buck when the heats off?

Bertie said..
nam mike I've been on the phone and txting with Baz.

He informed me that the police are now involved and he will geve feedback once it has been sorted.

Maybe i should become a detective

Maybe mate, you sure have'nt given up on the issue, thats for sure Comended on your insistance to stamp this sort of crap out, well done mate
Glad Bipolabaz is a real person at least.

Great ending. Well done to those involved

Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you

OK here's the latest. I am a real person (just one of me) and don't suffer from schizophrenia . Thanks to the help from the windsurfing community my gear has been seized, an arrest has been made and evidently some charges laid... Due to a gag order I couldn't ellaborate any early as a police investigation was in progress and I didn't want to spook this noob and compromise the sting.

Big thanks again to the "Doctor", I might have to drop in for a beer on the way down.

Happy sailing

Awesome result very happy for you Bipolaz as Ritchie would say WHAT A CATCH dont you love a happy ending

In this case, and apology is in order. Obviously they were on the case.

I was never disrespectful to a policeman , but it's easy to get cynical when people break into your car or your house , and all you get from the police is the claim number over the phone to give to the insurance company.

But worse experience is me working abroad, and a number of thieves breaking up my front door, while my teenage daughter i hiding in the closed scared to death. They couldn't break in, but have seriously damaged the door. As my wife got home and called the police they told her to lock up as thy may come back. So you now have 2 scared girls in the house and the police showed up 2 hours later to write the report.

So, I have no doubts that the foot soldiers are working hard, and doing what they ere told to do, but someone is setting priorities for them, and sometimes these suck.

(BTW , I don't know what HWP stands for. )