Growing wealth in Brazil, China, Australia and India has created new markets for boat deliveries, said David Holly, chief executive of Peters & May in Southampton, England, another major player in the business, which delivers thousands of new boats worldwide.
These facilities can be used at certain times to transfer goods between boats and delivery vehicles, but are available for other uses at other times.
The shipment was unloaded at sea and brought to shore by small fishing boats before delivery to Manila's Chinatown, he said.
The delivery boat carrying Donaldson's Phyfe commissions sank in the Cape Fear River.
By 9 p.m., most of Venice's gondolas are moored at their docks and the delivery boats are gone.
When the cola-delivery boat stops over at the little-visited island of Akwatupu, Toyo arranges for me to "hammock surf" at a friend of his cousin's.
It was rush hour in Venice, so the canal's usual tumult of crosscurrents and tides was churning with the wake of water taxis, ferries and delivery boats.
Vaporetti powered past us from both directions, water taxis darted by, and delivery boats loaded with appliances, vegetables and bottled water chugged along.
And for a traveler seeking a sense of place, there is little to compare with the sensation of drifting through the same waters as Renaissance princes, past 17th-century palazzi with mollusks embedded along the waterline, while a parade of delivery boats putt by and gondoliers shout "Oye!" as they approach a blind turn to warn other boaters they're tilting around the corner.
In 2013, DeChristopher helped organize another protest designed to test the necessity defense – this time with two activists using their lobster boat to block the delivery of coal to a New England power plant.
