The first boat built for the soon-to-be-launched Citywide Ferry Service set sail for New York City from Alabama last Tuesday, March 21. Twenty boats are to be built specifically for the ferry service and this first vessel departed from the Horizon Ship Yard in Bayou La Batre, Ala. and will sail 1,742 nautical miles across the Gulf of Mexico, through Lake Okeechobee and up the East Coast of the U.S.