In another life I am a volunteer at Rockingham Volunteer Sea Rescue Group.

Recently we have had to have our main rescue vessel "Jaimee Lee" undergo a major refit at a cost of $85000.00 that we had to bear ourselves from our sponsors donations.

Luckily some of our sponsors assisted with this, but it seriously put us behind.

And now this:

Back in the water for 10 days and some bottom feeders decided last night (Sunday at about 11pm) to jump the security fence on the mooring pontoon, cut through the back locked cabin doors and help themselves to our 2 x Furuno Navnet 3D chartplotters that were dash mounted. Total stolen and damage caused around $20000.00 to repair.

Cut all the wiring with cutters and then helped themsleves to all the life jackets on board and the flare kits.

In their rush it appears that at least one of the screens has been damaged as they left the rubber finger pad behind.

So this vessel is off the water now until we can get the necessary repiairs sorted. Luckily we have a 2nd vessel we can use.

We do have some CCTV footage of the incident which Police are reviewing.

We have had really good assistance today from DFES, Police, Gregs Glass (back doors), Taylor Marine (Furuno) Servitech (Life jackets) Midway marine (Flare kits)

We would appreciate any information whatever from you guys and that can be as little a a phone call to our main HQ number 9527 9988 and you can remain anonymous.

Thanks

Doug