For those of you who park your bass Boat outdoors, what security precautions do you take to prevent your boat from getting stolen?  I am looking for ideas how to prevent, or at least make it more difficult to get my new boat ripped off.

all i use is a lock that fits in the coupler as if it was a ball.

electronics are stored in the garage.

You could point a spotlight at it with a motion sensor attached to it. A big chain wrapped around a tree or deck post and then put through the trailer axle might also act as a deterent. Do they make some kind of a lowjack thing that goes on a trailer tire? I just try to give the appearance that if someone wants to steal my boat they are really going to have to work for it. I also have a couple of targets set up out in my back yard. They seem to keep undesirables away pretty well  ;D

If you run out of any other brite ideas that you like better, you can always try.......... getting in a real big hurry to get it out of the way, then useing a 4 wheeler to drop it in a bunch of trees, so that it can't be reached with a truck and cover it with a camo screen. It also helps to make sure that you break your leg in the mean time, get several heavy rains plus haveing it placed where the tounge faces a ditch, leaveing it virtualy impossible to get back out for nearly 6 weeks. But I dought if anything will try to mess with it, unless you have horses and racoons, that is. Might not hurt to pick up anouther tail light to have onhand, just in case, for when you do try to back it out. But they're normally pretty cheap. :-/

Normally I use a hitch lock and run a security cable through one wheel and around the frame, tree or post when leaveing it.  It might not hurt to have a cable or lock on the motor either if it is a smaller one.

A guy I know lived in an apartment building, keeping his boat in the parking lot. Pretty often something went missing. With tongue lock on he also cabled the trailer wheels to keep them from going, ran a long cable through to outboard to steering wheel, to trolling motor, with padlock securing it to bow eye. But then he had people sitting in it smoking and drinking all night, leaving behind burns in the carpet, beer bottles, used condoms, etc. So he installed a siren alarm in it that went off whenever anyone got close to the trailer. It had to do with capacitance of the metal. It worked off a 9 volt battery and stopped the tampering completely. It worked so well the apartment manager gave him a fenced in storage plot to end the irritating siren problem.

Jim

I know Minn Kota sells a detatchable Trolling Motor bracket so it can be removed from the boat.