They’ll Take The Shirt Off Your Back……….. or boots in my case!!

Posted on 2 March, 2015 Neil Greentree

The last couple of days have seen some great forecasts for blasting in the Wells Channel. But the team bus is in for extensive renovations to its back end and is out of use at the moment. That meant today I had to commission somewhat of an unusual vehicle to transport my kit to the beach. Yesterday I used my wife’s Range Rover which was perfect for the job but today she was using it so my options were very restricted. So I strapped my S-1’s, masts, boom and Freewave 86 into the back of the ‘Sooty Van’, this is my daily run around when I’m working on my barn, but seemed Ok for the job today.

I popped down to the bodyshop to check  progress on the Team Bus (see picture with Team Bus in the background) and set off for Wells. Andy Holland, Nixon (Geoff), Arther Fox and Kieron Roan were there to join me in the channel. I parked at the bottom end of Wells car park near the pinewoods – somewhere I park often and has always been super secure with crime almost non- existent. The wind was absolutely hummin blowing, leaving me super overpowered on my 4.8 S-1 Pro (God what a sail…….. worth every penny of the £600!!). 

After 2 hours I came in and de-rigged my sail to find the yellow strop I used to keep the board secure in transit missing! Uhhh I thought and carried on as I had a spare in the cab. I had left the cab unlocked….basically as I don’t have a key for the doors, and inside was my iPhone 6, wallet, and some change left in the ashtray (silly I know but I’ve never had a problem and frankly am not particularly security conscious). I took off my drysuit and went to put on my boots and socks which I had left tucked in the rear buck just behind the cab and they too had gone!!

Some b@@sted had stolen my boots and socks and the yellow strop!!!…….. but the twist is that the dozen feken pykies had left the 2 Severne S-1’s in the buck (value £1200) and not bothered to try the cab doors which would have given them much more expensive goodies to steel!. So I was left to drive home with no socks or shoes on, having to stop at the Shell garage for fuel and pop into Dereham with nothing on my feet – very weird I’m sure people thought I was.

So there lies a lesson – Even at Wells you mustn’t take any liberties with security……… and if you are unfortunate enough to be broken into…..hope that the twat that stole from vehicle as they are clearly not clever enough to remember their own name………..

PS:  When I told Sara my wife the story her response was: “Well, Jesus had no shoes…….”    Exactly…..Lol

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