Freshwater Fishing Tips

Alarms for boats are something you really need if you leave your boat in the water all the time. If you do, you sure don’t need some auto alarm system that’s not designed for boats. You want something that will let you know if someone is stealing your boat and alarms that will let you know if your boat is sinking.

So you don’t think your boat will sink while you’re around to take care of it. Lol, you would be wrong. According to respected marine surveyor David M. Pasco tens of thousands of boats sink right at their docks. If they’d have had boat alarms they went off when the boat was filling with water, the boats wouldn’t have sunk.

A simple system to monitor how far the bilge was filling up could have saved a lot of those boats. Heh, I’ve had a boat sink at the dock, twice. Not a big deal as it was a 12 ft aluminum fishing boat and you just pull it on shore and dump the water out and everything is fine. No sense having alarms for boats on a boat that small.

A bilge alarm would have saved me a bit of time the two times I forgot to put the plug in the boat. No harm done either time except for the major embarrassment. However if I’d have had a bilge alarm for the boat I’d have known there was a major problem a lot sooner than I did.

According to the Wisconsin DNR over 11,000 boats are stolen each year. Worse yet the average of getting your boat back is only 10 – 15%. Makes sense that you’ld want some motion sensing security for boats. The problem with motion sensing security systems is boats that are kept in the water are always in motion. Besides, if it’s theft from your dock you’re worried about you really want something other than motion sensing.

You want something to keep the boat from being stolen. Motion sensing is good for a lot of things but this isn’t one of them. One of the best things you can do to keep your boat from being stolen is simply don’t leave the keys in your boat. Turning the wheel all the way to the right or left and then locking it in that position will help in keeping it from being towed away by thieves.

For people with bots on trailers that are parked in the yard or garage motion sensing security for boats might work pretty well. It would depend on how sensitive the sensor was to the motion of the boat but it could work pretty well. One of the best things you can do to keep your boat from being stolen is simple lock the hitch with a security padlock. No one’s going to tow it very far when they can’t get the hitch over the ball. Your motion sensor should be notifying you that someone is messing with the boat, too.

So alarms for boats and motion sensing security for boats can be a good way to get lower boat insurance costs. Thee are other things you can do to keep your boat from sinking or being stolen but if you follow this tips you should cut your odds by a ton and save money. That’s always a good thing when you own a boat.