He made his fortune manufacturing construction products and was dragged into boating in 1998 when Mr. Julius bought Riva, an Italian boat maker that had once made the Riviera's signature craft but had fallen into decline.
The W90 is waterproof to 20 feet, so you can take it snorkeling, boating or into the backyard pool.
His lifelong passion for fishing and boating turned into a second career when he used his retirement funds to purchase and rejuvenate a successful fishing supply shop, Three Lantern Marine.
Occasionally I have to rewind and watch the same clip over and over again (I'm talking about you, girl falling into boating lake).
"We brought together the group that had a boat but couldn't get rid of it and the group that wanted to get into boating but it didn't make financial sense for them," he said.
Authorities would not discuss the investigation into the boating trip.
"I always stress that we're into family boating," he said.
They called it Croslite and molded it into a boating and water-sports shoe they named "Beach". The shoes quickly developed a following among landlubbers as well.
Houses, shops, and other buildings burned, and bodies were left to rot in the streets as the survivors fled any way they could: walking to other towns and villages, or boating across the lake into neighboring Chad.
