STOLEN PONTOON, SAND LAKE (Deer River area)

[Gus]

Sometime between Monday, May 21st and Thursday, May 24th someone stole a pontoon from our neighbors dock on Sand lake. This was our old pontoon, and I'd love to see if anybody has seen it moving or heard of anything.

It's a 1980's era 20 foot Harris Float Boat. Brown in color. Was setup for fishing with a livewell and a nice gray bimi top. Had a 2000ish Mercury 25HP four stroke.

My dad took a boat cruise around the lake and did not see it anywhere on the lake. It is believed to have been stolen.

If anybody has any information please contact me via PM, email, or Cell.

Thank you, and good luck to you all.

gustafson_tim@hotmail DOT COM

SIX ONE TWO 716-3443

[OnAFly]

Wow, that's a shame. Good luck finding it.

[Gus]

Photo of boat. And some cool eagle. Only picture I could find of the boat.

[Gus]

BOAT HAS BEEN FOUND

Sheriff said it was found. I don't have any other info yet, but will update later.

[chaffmj]

Great! What kind of bird was that?

[BartmanMN]

Glad it was located. Hopefully it is not damaged.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

BOAT HAS BEEN FOUND

Sheriff said it was found. I don't have any other info yet, but will update later.

It's later... do have an update for us?

[Gus]

An overdue update. Sorry about that guys!

The boat was recovered with no problems other than an empty gas tank. Although the owner wasn't sure how much gas was in it to begin with. Only damage was to our boat prop when we got too shallow and hit a rock trying to recover it.

The mystery of how it got loose or was let loose still remains. The boat is tied to the dock with a stainless cable run through the dock sections and then clipped to the front and rear eyes on the pontoon. The cable had not broken. The clips had not broken. The cable had not been pulled at through the dock sections... the boat was just free.

The other neighbors reported that they thought gas had been stolen from their boats so it could be a possibility.

We haven't had any problems the rest of the summer so hopefully nothing will happen again.

Thanks guys.

Gus

[reinhard1]

glad you got it back. sooner or later people that do these things get caught. good luck

[Finns]

Thanks for the update.

[Jim Uran]

Great! What kind of bird was that?

Look like a young eagle to me

[Stick in Mud]

That would've been my guess...immature baldie. No expert here, though.

Good to hear you got it back!