{"id":312266,"date":"2026-03-04T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312266\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:36:08","slug":"napier-rowing-boat-builder-appeals-for-stolen-25000-package-to-be-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312266\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier rowing-boat builder appeals for stolen $25,000 package to be returned"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was taken between 6.45am and 7.20am on Friday, February 27.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe larger of the two boxes pictured was allegedly stolen soon after being dropped off. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

The package included eight carbon sweep riggers, destined to be used on a new eight-man boat at the Maadi Cup competition later this month.<\/p>\n

A huge amount of work had gone into the design.<\/p>\n

Unless they are returned, there is no way replacements can be made in time, causing huge headaches for SL Racing and the impacted high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are worth a lot of money to us but to anyone else, they look nice, but there is absolutely no use [for them],\u201d Lack said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t modify them. You can\u2019t change them. They are built for our boats.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"WhatWhat the missing carbon sweep riggers look like. Photo \/ SL Racing<\/p>\n

He called on anyone who knew their whereabouts to get in touch, or drop the package somewhere it could easily be found.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they drop them off somewhere and let us know, no questions asked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want them back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although they have insurance, he said he was more concerned about recovering the parts, and was offering a $200 reward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not really about the money, it\u2019s about getting them on the water, in use, and trying to win races.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that while he could not be 100% certain the package was stolen, he could not think of another plausible explanation.<\/p>\n

He has reported the incident to the police.<\/p>\n

He said the 20kg package could not have fitted into a small car and would \u201cneed to be a van or station wagon or trailer, that sort of thing\u201d.<\/p>\n

Another smaller package was also dropped off by the courier but was not taken.<\/p>\n

Lack did not want to comment at this stage on why a valuable package was left unattended at the gate by the courier, and is in talks with his contracted courier company.<\/p>\n

He has cameras outside his business, but the cameras did not capture the incident.<\/p>\n

SL Racing is a highly-regarded boat maker and its customers include Olympic athletes, such as gold medallist Emma Twigg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police confirmed they have been notified of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was taken between 6.45am and 7.20am on Friday, February 27. The larger of the two boxes pictured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8990,74,7818,28654,5761,13916,5195,682,8988,6383,15972,2082,71,2944,3242,3607,111,139,69,22367,17146,12971,169819,213,4736,61,102,19985],"class_list":{"0":"post-312266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-8990","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-allegedly","11":"tag-appealing","12":"tag-appeals","13":"tag-asked","14":"tag-be","15":"tag-being","16":"tag-builder","17":"tag-driveway","18":"tag-equipment","19":"tag-for","20":"tag-from","21":"tag-inside","22":"tag-large","23":"tag-napier","24":"tag-new-zealand","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-nz","27":"tag-package","28":"tag-questions","29":"tag-returned","30":"tag-rowingboat","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-stolen","33":"tag-to","34":"tag-with","35":"tag-worth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}