As a child, Sam Ozier grew up spending summers at Possum Kingdom Lake with his family. Now he captains a pirate ship there.
“It’s always been a dream of mine to build a pirate ship,” said the senior Texas A&M engineering student.
He decided during the pandemic lockdown to put together a business plan and Possum Kingdom Pirates LLC was born.
A search of Facebook Marketplace led him to purchase the well-used, former houseboat from a fellow in Illinois. They had it shipped down to Texas and upon further inspection, realized the bottom of the deck was heavily rusted. So, they stripped it down to just the pontoons and built up from there.