Vancouver family elated after stolen homemade sailboat recovered by police
A Vancouver household that spent a yr constructing a sailboat from scratch, solely to have it stolen upon completion, says they’re grateful for its restoration by police after onlookers reported seeing it being rowed on an area waterway.
Duncan McDonald — collectively together with his spouse, Julie, and two younger daughters — spent greater than a yr constructing the sailboat from scratch. Christened by his daughters as “Salor Do That,” the boat’s maiden voyage was set for this Father’s Day weekend, off the waters of the Sunshine Coast.
However their plans have been wrecked when the boat went lacking early Friday morning, lower than a day after they accomplished it.
In a Facebook post, the household says the boat —a 14-foot flat backside skiff with a white base from bow to stern, and a blue sail on its mast — was stolen on its boat trailer close to Fraser Avenue and King Edward Avenue, by their East Vancouver house.
The publish was shared broadly and native media additionally picked up on the story.
On Saturday, Julie McDonald stated the Vancouver Police Division phoned her husband to say that it acquired a number of stories of the boat being rowed in False Creek, in downtown Vancouver.
She stated the VPD’s marine unit recovered the boat and took it to the Canadian Coast Guard station within the metropolis’s Kitsilano neighbourhood.
“It undoubtedly had been on an journey throughout the final 48 hours, however we’re actually blissful that it has been retrieved,” Julie McDonald advised CBC Information late Saturday.
VPD didn’t instantly reply to inquiries about who had the boat and if there’s a legal investigation into its disappearance and restoration.
McDonald stated that the Salor Do That’s broken however could be repaired. The trailer was not recovered.
She stated she and her household are grateful to everybody who noticed the social media publish or media tales and saved a lookout for the boat.
“It was an emotional challenge for us, and my first response was like, ‘Please see our boat, hold your eye out,’ however individuals responded like, ‘No, we’re getting this boat again,’ they usually responded with virtually as a lot emotion as we have been feeling,” she stated.
“And it acquired the boat again and I am extremely blissful. It simply provides to the story of this boat, so yeah we’re actually blissful.”
