Well - this is not the message that i thought I'd be posting. I've just returned to Australia from Greece where I have my powercat berthed on the island of Corfu in a secure marina, having completed a two year cruise through the Med with my wife and daughter - a life changing and wonderful experience. It was time to return to our home - for a while at least, and to attend to some business and family matters. I listed the boat with a number of Brokers and through Gregor Tarjan at Aeroyacht in New York, had secured a sale, awaiting only paperwork formalities, our cat "Liquidity" was going to wonderful new owners in the UK. All was organised, so after visiting Corfu for a week to finalise matters, I returned to Australia. The night after I returned home (monday last), I received the news that Liquidity had been stolen from the marina where she was berthed on Corfu in Greece. This is no simple matter. the marina has 24 hour security and regular guard patrols. In addition to this, I had a paid caretaker sleeping on a boat not 10 metres from our cat. The boat was locked and the keys were not in the ignitions. Because of the proximity of Corfu to Albania - a lawless and troublesome neibour, there is a major coast guard installation in the bay where the marina is located, with 24 hour radar surveilance as well as 3 high-speed gun boats (aggressive surface-drive rockets) which patrol the waters of this bay constantly. The boat was in the middle of the marina amongst other boats of a similar size, was secured with 2 fixed bow lines as well as 4 stern lines and also a passerelle and power lead to a dock supply. So the boat was broken into, either hot-wired or the hiding place for the keys was discovered, engines started, lines dropped, electrical disconected, paserelle removed and the boat extracted from the confines of the marina, past the coast guard which has the area under surveilance, all without being seen by security, without waking the caretaker or being noticed by the coast guard - unbelievable!! Its now 2 days later without a single sighting. She had full tanks which gives her range to reach Greece, Italy, Albania, Croatia or even North Africa - the concensus of the authorities is that it was a professional theft and that the boat was loaded into a larger vessel and is well on the way to a port in the eastern bloc. This sounds likely as with such a distinctive boat, and with the coverage of coast guard and Interpol notification, it is unlikely that she could enter a port within 500 miles without being recognised. It's not an outcome that I had ever considered at all - it always seemed to me way too big an item to steal wholesale - a break-in was always was a possibility but the whole boat??? I am perhaps naive but I did think that we had sufficient lines of security in place to prevent even a break-in let alone a total loss. I wonder if we'll ever find out where our much loved and handsome vessel ended up? Peter Dowling Korora Bay, New South Wales, Australia