“We can build just about anything,” said Ricky Baker with Sentinel Boat Company. “I’m an engineer, another owner is an engineer, and the third owner owns a bunch of businesses that deals with boats.”“The current boat we are building is a 65 catamaran, 25 feet wide, 65 feet long, and holds 149 passengers. It’s huge. This boat is so wide and so long, it’s pretty much two boats. The boat weighs about 105,000 pounds,” Baker said.
Once she hit the water, she didn’t stick around Wetumpka for long. They rode down to Mobile for a Coast Guard inspection, and then it’ll be a 3-week ride to her final home,Walking away for the last time, though, may be difficult. When I asked him if he’ll miss it? He laughed, “No, no, I won’t. I may be bittersweet.”
Because some of the locks in Michigan are shut down for maintenance this summer, they’ll have to take the long way around. Ricky says they’ll ride in the Gulf and the Intercoastal Waterway and go down the Florida Keys, around Florida and all the way up the Eastern Seaboard. From there, they’ll pass the Statue of Liberty and hop on the Hudson River. He says it should take about three weeks to get there by boat.
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