“Zelensky” (the boat, not the man) has moved on to other seas

Well, Zelensky (also transliterated as “Zelenskyy”) has finally moved on to other seas. No, I don’t mean Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, who remains exactly where he should be, in Kyiv – I mean the boat that we purchased in fall, 2020 and re-christened Zelensky.

After 3+ years of giving me nothing but grief and costing untold amounts of money, I finally sold the darned thing over the long weekend. It finally ran the best it’s ever run right at the end of its tenure in our yard (after two more visits to the shop this spring, of course), which made it a very easy sell. I literally had a roster of potential buyers.

However, despite the stress that this vessel caused, it will forever go down in the history of Ukrainians in New Brunswick as the boat in the video that Serhiy Seniv produced and distributed in Ukraine, which enticed many dozens of families coming to Canada to settle on the Miramichi.

President Zelensky would undoubtedly wish that these people never had a reason to leave their native land, but fate and the brutal Rascist invaders deemed otherwise. With the Miramichi Ukrainian community being over 200 strong now, this boat will always occupy a tiny space in our province’s history and in my heart.