Cowboy & Indian Summer Tour, Part V—Look Mom, No Truck

Three things I have learned so far by joining Kiran Pinisetti and Kelly O’Hara in Cowboy & Indian, their DCB Performance Marine M37R Widebody catamaran, for several events this summer:

1. How to put a Marine Concepts cover on a catamaran on a tilt trailer.
2. How to buff the side of a hull.
3. How a Ford F-350 tow vehicle can be stolen and recovered in the same evening.

On the same night it was stolen, DCB M37R catamaran co-owner Kiran Pinisetti’s Ford F-350 truck was recovered.

I learned lesson No. 3 last night with Pinisetti, his wife, Jessica, and two of their friends after a late dinner at Pepe & Dolores, a fine Italian eatery in Cincinnati, ahead of this weekend’s Rock The River Fun Run. The locked truck—key words—was parked across the street in a well-lit, paid-fee parking lot.

But full of fresh pasta and ready for bed, we were greeted by an empty space. No broken glass or other signs of forced entry. And definitely no truck.

As anyone who’s ever had a vehicle stolen can tell you, it takes a moment for your mind to accept what your eyes are telling you when you come upon such a scene. Then acceptance turns to anger and a whole lot of (sanitized) “How the actual bleeping-bleep did they bleeping do that? The bleeping thing was bleeping locked. Those mother-bleepers.”

The “how,” at least in the opinion of the four members of Cincinnati’s finest who met us at the vehicle when we located it—via the Ford locator app on Pinisetti’s phone—in a neighborhood I’d rather not visit again at midnight, is something called a “frequency receiver.” It’s a hot item among car thieves these days, and though the technology is a bit over my head it works on today’s code-locked vehicles.

Aside from a lightly damaged rear fender and missing wheel cap, the truck was unscathed. The $30,000 worth of propellers were still on the rear seat. But a legal and licensed firearm was gone. (In the unlikely chance that the thieves are speedonthewater.com readers, first, bleep off, and second, the firearm theft was reported on the spot.)

“That’s usually what these thieves are looking for,” said one of the police officers. “Weapons.”

Walking away lucky.

Thanks to some seriously fancy tow-truck driver work, the truck is back at the marina just a few yards from the Cowboy & Indian DCB cat. Pinisetti is an automobile dealer, and one of his employees is bringing a new key fob for the truck from his Indianapolis headquarters. The story ends happily.

And even if the morning’s rain and thunder persisted through today’s lunch run and street party, we’d still be the happiest—and luckiest—group in town for this weekend’s event.

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