Riverboat Friendship docks in Marine City, begins cruises
JACKIE SMITH, Times Herald (Port Huron)
July 4, 2021
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1of3Marine City resident Paul Gallas, is photographed on his docked his 67-foot, double-deck tour boat on the Belle River in Marine City, Mich., on Thursday, June 24, 2021 . Gallas will start holding cruises aboard his boat in July. (Brian Wells/The Times Herald via AP)Brian Wells/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3Marine City resident Paul Gallas has docked his 67-foot, double-deck tour boat on the Belle River in Marine City, Mich., on June 24, 2021. Gallas will start holding cruises aboard his boat in July. (Brian Wells/The Times Herald via AP)Brian Wells/APShow MoreShow Less
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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.