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catamarans for Catalina Express. The largest, the Catalina Jet, moves 450 passengers at a time, has two air-con- ditioned inside decks plus open-air seating on the top deck. Australian fast-ferry seating specialists Beurteaux supplied the seats. Seat-level windows provide the views.
The 144-foot vessel cruises at 35 knots and has a computer-stabilized ride. Designed by Incat Designs and built in 1999, its interior was com- pletely refurbished in 2006. In 2007, the Catalina Express upgraded to low emission engines and new water jets.
Boston Harbor Cruises
Founded by Matthew “Matty”
Hughes in 1926, Boston Harbor
Cruises (BHC) has grown to 32 vessels and 200 full-time employees carrying foot passengers to an extensive network of destinations and activities. Along the way, BHC has become the largest private operator of passenger vessels and is now operated by Matty’s grand- children and great-grandchildren.
BHC’s operations encompass foot ferries to the islands of the Boston
Harbor Islands National Recreation
Area; whale watches to the Stellwagen
Bank Marine Sanctuary; passenger vessels to Salem, Massachusetts, and
Provincetown on Cape Cod, plus a
Boston Harbor water taxi, sightseeing cruises, Codzilla, private charters and an outdoor waterfront bar called “The
Landing.”
For the price of an $88 round trip ticket, the Provincetown Cape Cod
Fast Ferry arrives at the tip of Cape
Cod within 90 minutes. The vessel,
Salacia, is the largest and fastest cata- maran in the U.S. Another high-speed catamaran carries 149 passengers to
Salem, Massachusetts, in less than one hour. Beyond this, the company has partnered with the New England
Aquarium for three-hour catamaran
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