It is for Gino LeBlanc, of Caraquet, N.B. 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 ...

The reunion was more than 40 years in the making and took place at Vancouver's Maritime Museum, where David Scott of Gabriola Island, B.C., had donated the hovercraft after building it in 1965.

A floating mishmash of rubber, fiberglass, paper mache, and a Jeep Grand Cherokee. Robert Tymofichuk spent a year building his hovercraft.

Robert Tymofichuk, a teacher in Alberta, Canada, spent nearly 2,000 hours building an operational hovercraft from salvaged car parts and with no blueprint. By Emmett Lindner On a cold spring day ...