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Baby Boats
Manufactured by: Allan Herschell Company
Built in: 1963?
Ride Type: P.T. Boats
Capacity: 14
Number of Boats: 7
Height Requirements: Riders over 46" in height may not ride.
This is a simple ride. You have an oval water trough built into the ground with some boats that travel around the water in a circle for a couple of minutes. Not exactly your best thrill ride, but for a little kid who love boats, they will love the ride.
When the ride was originally built, the boats were wood. The lead boat was a small powered tug boat. In 1992 Lagoon replaced the old wooden boats with new fiberglass ones. It was then that the tug boat was replaced with the new boring lead boat.
Regardless of the boring lead boat, this ride still remains one of the more popular Kiddieland rides. Little kids enjoy riding around the water trough and ringing the bell provided on each boat. What a better way for your kid to spend their day than driving everyone around the ride nuts with constant ringing bells.
Lagoon's Baby Boats is slightly unique. Most PT boats these days are built raised, but Lagoon had theirs built into the ground. Although this makes the ride entertaining for kids, it makes a lot of wear and tear on the poor operator's knees.
In 2000 Lagoon added a kneeling pad to the cement edge of the ride. Although this made it a little nicer for the operators to kneel down with, most still had sore knees by the end of the day.
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