What I feel is that, ok the wood was missing and the outboard was gone. But you really don't have the proof that he did it. If this fella run's in bad co., thies items could have been taken by someone else.
Is the fella trouble? Maybe. Would he steal from you next door? Prolly not.
He might have someone else do it. Just be careful, my friend, you are not being too judgemental on the whole situation.
Make sure your reading into this correctly. About your neighbors, being spineless, you can't do anything about that, just try to encourage them to handle their own business.
This might be part of the problem. Too many neighbors feeding bad info into the whole deal.
