propellers stolen in Fort Lauderdale

Lauderdale Marine Center certainly have security cameras installed all over the place and some footage of the theft should be available?

Just out of curiosity: Was the stolen propellers mounted on boats in dry storage, or taken from one of the Contractor's shops on the property?

The other week some props where stolen from another near by ship yard who's name I do not want to cause problems for.
Makes me wonder if there is some sort of scam going on.
Keep eyes peeled!

stolen props

That would need a forklift and decent pickup truck, inside job ??

How much would a prop weigh for your average 120 130ft displacement yacht?

They always looked heavy so I never tried man-handling one before..

Call and report to local law enforcement. Difficult to say for sure, of whereabouts, but also phone and/visit local metal scrap yards. If it went to scrap yard, it most likely would have been received already "cut-up". Sad that people steal and destroy, for the scrap value of very expensive products. Hopefully not!

40m boat, 55 inch NiBrAl wheels with 4.5 inch bore ... around 560 lbs (254 kg)

Maybe a $1000 in scrap value? Somebody must have been pretty confident about getting away with it ... not much money for a felony conviction and jail time.

Yes,not much money, for the possible consequences. But people who do steal things, as alike the props, don't think!! Sad!!

Thieves rarely have a moral compass and they don’t care what happens to the stolen property once they have sold it on. Last year thieves stole the large bronze name plates from Plymouth (UK) war memorial. The plates were never found and it is assumed that they were melted down. It probably didn’t even occur to the thieves that the guys whose name plates they stole had given their lives so that those bilge rats could live in freedom.

I recently had over $600,000 of raw material stolen and sold to a scrap yard. The three thieves, who plead guilty and are now in jail, all worked for me and received about $20,000 in cash from the scrap dealer.

If they went to a scrap dealer, then the props are gone by now. But these would seem to be very very valuable if they could be sold to the right owner. I hate to point this out, but not all yacht owners are of the highest moral character.