A Vancouver family that spent a year building a sailboat from scratch, only to have it stolen upon completion, says they are thankful for its recovery by police after onlookers reported seeing it being rowed on a local waterway.

Duncan McDonald — together with his wife, Julie, and two young daughters — spent more than a year building 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.

But their plans were wrecked when the boat went missing early Friday morning, less than a day after they completed