It was supposed to be a momentous Father’s Day weekend for the McDonald family.
Duncan McDonald, together with his wife Julie and two young daughters, spent more than a year building a sailboat from scratch. Christened by his daughters as “Salor DoThat,” the boat’s maiden voyage was set for this Father’s Day weekend, off the waters of Sunshine Coast.
But their plans were wrecked when the boat was stolen.
McDonald says he discovered Salor DoThat was missing early Friday morning, less than a day after they completed it.
In a Facebook post, the family says the boat was stolen on its boat trailer near Fraser Street and King Edward Avenue,
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