Our story was featured on the front page of the Local section in the Thursday, September 23rd 2011 York Daily Record!! Thanks to the YDR for the boat publicity, Bill Landauer for all your reporting about Alicia, and Chris Dunn for the photos.
The Alicia Marie is the creation of their daughter, sister and friend. Alicia Marie Daugherty had started building the boat, but never got to finish it. She died in a car accident in Selinsgrove on June 3. She was 21 years old.
So, the family finished it for her….
Before she died, Alicia had completed and tested the pontoons. That was the hard part.
The family took the finished boat on her maiden voyage in August on the Conewago Creek. “We learned about balance,” Denny said. The Alicia Marie had tipped, sending them all into the water. But she floated.
“It was therapy,” Karl explained.
On Aug. 21, Alicia’s family hosted a ceremonial launch for the boat in Gifford Pinchot State Park. Sixty people came.
