So I did the Codzilla ride with my family yesterday. My kids, ages 11 and 15, loved it. My wife, not exactly a thrill seeker, had her concerns but I think had fun. I have been on boats my whole life and it was pretty fun – but it could’ve been better.
We Made reservations for Sunday on Saturday morning. Most rides were still available. We went in to the city, parked and wandered around a bit before heading to the boat. We got there about 15 minutes early and we could just walk on. Nope! They kindly pointed to the line of maybe 80 or 100 people. We were a bit concerned that we would not get to sit together, but it turns out we got an entire road to ourselves, Albeit toward the back of the boat.
When you head out into the harbor, you have to go fairly slow as there is a no wake zone until maybe a half a mile out. Then they go on it and the fun begins. Unless you are in the front you really cannot see anything ahead of you, but the views to either side we’re fine. Boston Harbor is quite busy with all sorts of boat including some large tankers so there was always something to look at. I was a little surprised and or disappointed that there best way of getting people wet seems to be slowing down into either waves or just slowing down the front of the boat comes down pretty fast and water shooting everywhere. I got fairly soaked two or three times and I was in the middle back of the boat. Some people on the outside edges were drenched.
The boat ride lasts about 40 minutes, I’ll be at maybe 15 of those minutes are spent with the guy upfront talking. But you do blast around for about 20 minutes.