The Canadian Coast Guard is calling and they want you to buy a hovercraft.
Not a familiar scenario?
It is for Gino LeBlanc, of Caraquet. He was not surprised when the call came in last fall.
“In the world of big hovercraft, it’s a small world,” He jokes.
Gino LeBlanc, left, shakes hands with Paul Tobin of the Canadian Coast Guard in Vancouver when the hovercraft was officially handed over in May. (Submitted by Gino LeBlanc/Facebook)
But if they thought they had found the perfect buyer, LeBlanc at first said no. For one thing, he already had one.
Eventually, after a visit to the coast guard’s hovercraft base on
