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Boat washes up in Cadboro Bay Travis Paterson News Staff
The owner of the 55-foot boat that washed ashore in the middle of Cadboro Bay beach early on Dec. 5 is offended the District of Saanich and media have referred to it as derelict. Cyril Manuel was living on the vessel, the Pacific Sun King, for six years until last Friday’s violent storm forced the 40-tonne boat to drag anchor from a spot midpoint in the bay. Prior to last week, Manuel lived in Esquimalt waters near the navy base. “I just paid $600 to get towed here, it took me two attempts,” said Manuel, who was at the boat salvaging tools and personal belongings Monday night. “I take offence to the term ‘derelict,’ I’ve been a boater for 15 years.” Manuel was there with his girlfriend long past nightfall Monday as they took advantage of low tide. He interacted with sympathetic beachgoers and also posted a sign on shore asking for patience and understanding from local residents and beach visitors while he tried to recover from the situation. “Esquimalt was squeezing me out,” Manuel said. “I was threatened by the harbourmaster, the RCMP was going to visit me. So I wasted all my money getting here and now I’m broke.” Manuel said he is willing to do anything he can to recover the boat, and is considering giving it away.
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Cyril Manuel with his Pacific Sun King boat that washed up in Cadboro Bay during the early hours of the 90 km/h windstorm on Dec. 5. Manuel is upset the boat is being referred to as derelict. “It’s my home, I was trying to save it.” “Take it, use it, or if anyone can help me recover it, please.” His arrival on shore is an intense story that includes a daring escape from the Pacific Sun King. Manuel said the waves were so big, it took five minutes to get into the skiff. He then “literally surfed” the skiff to shore, with his girlfriend aboard, guiding it with a paddle through a series of huge waves. “People try to make it look like I’m the bad one, like live-aboards are the bad ones, but I’m the one who lost a home here,” Manuel said. Manuel said he was lucky to survive as he and his girlfriend endured the hours-long storm with waves higher than the boat. Manuel described rollers that reminded him of the Perfect Storm, but had faith his ship, built of concrete and rebar, would endure. “As a live-aboard anchor boater, it’s not that I was planning to leave my boat and run off. Now I’m left with no home, I’m left feeling like I’m some outcast,” he said. “I’m
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hearing that I’ve done terrible things to the environment, and I appreciate that. I’m a skim boarder, I should be skim boarding right now. I love the coast, I don’t want this to happen.” Manuel said he’s put $40,000 into the boat over the past six years, outfitting it with a durable sheet metal roof. It also has a generator and a wood stove, common features for the local anchor boater community. “I gambled and I lost,” Manuel said. As of Monday, Saanich workers staked the beach area around the boat with ribbon. Another boat, a sailboat 1. Duplex on 11,800sf View Lot 73 about 20 feet long, also washed last week. It lies Sylvan Lane ashore $1,099,000 MLS 351211 near Hibbins Close on the east end of Cadboro Bay. Saanich is still assessing whether boat seaworthy 2. Renovated Legalthat Duplex withisViews and trying to find the owner, saidRoad outgoing Saanich CAO 1828 Crescent $1,199,000 MLS 353190 Andy Laidlaw. 3. Gordon Point Executive Home 4516 PLEASE SEE: Point Drive $1,175,000 COMING Saanich not in Gordon position to remove boat, Page A10 SOON
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