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POTW: Rigging Shoppe Overcomes Truck Theft Nightmare

January 22, 2026

Imagine this – you load two five-ton trucks with valuable boat gear to transport to the Boat Show for an all-important Mariners Marketplace booth. Lock up the trucks head home for sleep, but when Paul and Diane Reid, operators of Toronto chandlery, the Rigging Shoppe, headed back the next morning to transport everything to the Toronto Show, their trucks and truckloads of boat stuff had been stolen.

Thats what happened last week and it was going to spell disaster… but one of the trucks was later located and suppliers raced to deliver replacement items for the booth. A mad night and day scramble turned catastrophe into a hastily assembled, creditable booth. The team was so relieved they took this great shot together and that’s our Photo of the Week.

as late as two days ago, missing gear was arriving from suppliers to meet eager boat show buyers

Your Photo of the Week doesn’t have to include such high drama; it just have to reflect our lives and boaters.  Send your to photo@opmediagroup.ca and you could be our POTW shot next issue.  Thanks in advance!

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