Increasing boats are being targeted for their brass (Scrap Brass £2600 per ton) mushrooms and the only ones to benefit from this apart from the 'Never do well low life' are the chandlers. In one Fenland town a number of streets had all the brass numbers and door fittings removed in one night. Peterborough is getting petty bad for this, along with a increasing numbers of Eastern Europeans living rough along the riverbank. All the fittings were ripped out out of the shower block on the embankment sometime ago. It was replaced at great cost, but within week's it was again ripped out. My own choice is the tiller bar, hold in such a way that it lookers like a large bore shotgun, They soon do a runner. If they try anything its a bone buster.
Firesprite
In the Wet and Windy Fens