| Paddleboat Picking Up Passengers Around Lake Lanier |
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'The Spirit of Lanier' is already attracting tourists and cruising up and down the lake. The owner, Bill Odrey, now hopes to gain permission from the City of Gainesville to use its parks as a passenger loading site. Based at Holiday Marina, the restored stern-wheeler is a 65' paddleboat that travels at 5-miles an hour up and down the lake. With its own retractable walkway for passengers to get off, it can park at any shoreline. Though 'The Spirit' has a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers to cruise the expanse of the lake, it needs permission to retract its 2' wide walkway on city governed land. It currently has permission from the City of Cumming to use Mary Alice Park as a passenger loading site. The agreement went into effect on July 20th and expires in January. As part of the agreement, boat passengers would pay for parking and admission fees to Mary Alice Park. Bill Odrey wishes for a similar agreement with the City of Gainesville. Mayor Bob Hamrick of Gainesville believes it would benefit the city by attracting tourists, but wants a recommendation from Parks and Recreation to decide if it is a compatible use.
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