UPDATE: $150,000 wakeboard boat stolen in West Kelowna located

A $150,000 wakeboard boat stolen from a home in West Kelowna earlier this week has been located.

Central Okanagan Crime Stoppers issued a media release earlier today, Nov. 7, to say the 27-foot white and red Cobalt wakeboard boat was stolen from the 1500 block of Pinot Gris Drive in West Kelowna on Nov. 5, along with a 2018 EZ Loader trailer.

Crime Stoppers now says the boat has been located but did not say where or when the boat was found.

— This story was updated at 2:34 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, to say the stolen boat had been found.


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Rob Munro

Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics