‘I’m proud of the people’: Long-time Victoria pickleboat captain signs off
“At several points he stopped in the water, and the police boat was about 100 feet away from him, and he talked very, very politely and calmly to the police, and then they’d say we’re going to come over and get you and he’d put it in gear. So it took forever — but it was funny, it was so funny.”
Most of the captains in his small fleet are retirees, like himself, that have the gift of gab and the love of meeting new people.They’ve also been called on to step up as heroes. Hobbis estimates the ferry crews have participated in at least 30 rescues on the water. “One rescue, the captain got a Royal Lifesaving award — it was just an amazing thing that he did. He wrecked the boat, but he saved a young man from drowning,” he said.
Then there is the famous Pickle Pub Crawl — an idea Hobbis got from local University of Victoria students — that lets passengers hop on and hop off the vessels to take advantage of the city’s numerous waterfront drinking establishments.The first year they ran the program, 300 people stepped aboard. The second year, it was 11,000.
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