Door lock - Hanse 370

Hi, I do have a Hanse 370 bought from 2007. Unfortunately I don't have a door lock and I don't know where to buy. 

I think I still have my old pin on the boat if you want it.

I have one somewhere.   I’m sure I kept it but where?  My problem was that the hole in the original one was too small for the padlock I needed to use.   I made a replacement by cutting down a stainless steel bolt.   The cutting is easy with a hacksaw but to polish it up you need a grinder with a polishing wheel and compound.

Ratbasher, you are right. If a thief wants to break in they will. I had a break in a number of years ago and the cost of repair exceeded greatly the value of the stolen items. I was using the standard lock pin  and a small padlock and had to replace the broken Perspex washboard and get a new pin (oddly the padlock was undamaged). As you say the thefts are usually carried out by other boaters and are usually opportunistic. A friend of mine works in the security sector and his advice is, and this applies to your home as well, to not install or use visibly high security systems or measures as this is basically advertising that there is something worth stealing and will attract the people you don’t want. Instead his recommendation is to use a system or device that visibly makes breaking in more hassle or slightly more difficult than your neighbours. Not very nice, but he recommends that you basically have a security race with your neighbours and always stay visibly just slightly ahead of them. This way if there is going to be a break in you get left alone and you sympathise with your neighbour if it happens. Our yacht club has adopted this method and for a number of years have had no stolen equipment while our neighbours have had numerous incidents. We have however added slight upgrades to our visible security equipment to maintain the perception of being more hassle to steal from.

Ratbasher, couldn’t agree more. The big question is ‘what does good look like’? It’s usually very hard to actually work out what good is, but once you’ve done that it’s a simple case of breaking down steps and actions required to achieve good and doing them.