Blount Marine Delivers 192-Foot Dinner/Excursion Boat M / V Spirit Of Boston

Blount Marine Corporation, Warren, R.I., recently announced the delivery of the M/V Spirit of Boston to Holiday Cruise II, Inc., a subsidiary of Cruise International headquartered in Norfolk, Va.

The 192-foot-long by 35-footwide dinner/excursion boat carries a crew of 75 who are responsible for vessel operations, gourmet food ser- vice, and entertainment. The vessel will operate in Boston Harbor and is certified for 600 passengers on three fully enclosed, carpeted, climatecontrolled decks. The ship provides a luxurious change of pace for dining, weddings, company functions, and special events.

The Spirit of Boston will join six other ships built by Blount for Cruise International. They are based in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington and New Jersey.

Luther H. Blount, president and founder, has specialized in building dinner boats. While visiting France in the late 1960s, he studied the operation of the Bateaux Mouches, one of the first dinner boat enterprises, which began in Paris in the early 70s. The Bateaux Mouches served as a model for Blount's first dinner boats, the Lebateaux fleet which operated out of Washington, D.C., and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

For free literature detailing the facilities and capabilities of Blount Marine, Circle 3 1 on Reader Service Card

Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 60, Jul 1990

Read Blount Marine Delivers 192-Foot Dinner/Excursion Boat M / V Spirit Of Boston in Pdf, Flash or Html5 edition of July 1990 Maritime Reporter

Other stories from July 1990 issue

Content

Maritime Reporter

First published in 1881 Maritime Reporter is the world's largest audited circulation publication serving the global maritime industry.