It took a decade of searching, but Dean Fatovic finally located and returned the jet boat to Gibsons, where the CBC TV series was filmed.
It took years of searching, more than a little persistence, and the luck of being in the right place at the right time, but the original jet boat driven by “Relic,” on the beloved TV series The Beachcombers, has been returned to its rightful home — Gibsons, B.C.
“It was the early '90s and things kind of fell off the map,” says Fatovic, who has worked in transportation in the TV and film industry in Vancouver for the past 20 years. “We didn't quite have the internet and nobody knew anything about it. But when my wife and I started looking for a place , I started thinking about Relic’s boat.”
The couple then started asking about the boat at every commercial harbour they visited along the West Coast of B.C., with the idea someone had to know something about this boat. It was a stop in Secret Cove that got the ball rolling. “One of them said, ‘I think that boat actually used to sit up the block here in the back, I do recall that boat,’” says Fatovic. “Then he says, but it hasn’t been here for years, but if you want to talk to the owners, he’s sitting right over there at the burger shack having fish and chips. And, I’m like, 'You’re kidding.'”
Fatovic says the first thing they did was look for identifying markers, including its length and width, original dents on the hull, the rear swim grid and some numbers that were welded on the old dashboard of the boat.
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