Balboa Island’s ferries are one step closer to going green after receiving more funding to convert their fleet to an all-electric design.
“We can’t live in the past forever,” Seymour Beek, president of the Balboa Island Ferry.
The Balboa Island Ferry has been a fixture in Orange County for more than 100 years, since it was founded in 1919. Beek’s father, Joe, received the first contract to operate the first vessel, which would take one car between the island and the peninsula in Newport Beach. A couple of years later, he expanded to a larger boat that could hold two cars. A century later, the old wooden ferries bring three cars across the bay.
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