City and county officials are putting the "marina" in Marine City.Currently, there aren't any slips for boats traveling the St. Clair River to dock at in the city. In fact, there aren't any public slips available for 17 nautical miles along the river between St. Clair and Algonac. If a storm…
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Paul Gallas joked last week that he went into a “kind of retirement mode” when he more recently moved to Marine City.
But docking his 67-foot, double-deck tour boat along the Belle River would bring him out.
“The city of Marine city is, in my opinion, so ready and so ideal for a smaller tour boat operation, and I just thought I might be able to do something really good for the town here and give myself something to do as more of a semi-retirement kind of gig,” Gallas said.
His vessel called the Friendship, which can seat roughly up to 150, used to be based on the Clinton River in Mount Clemens. In a letter to Marine City officials at the end of April, he proposed leasing a long triangular piece of city-owned property just south of the LaBuhn Bridge on Main Street to dock that passenger boat, as well as a smaller 53-foot steel hull vessel called the Captain Paul.