New Balboa Island ferries will be battery powered — with ‘smokestacks’

Q: I was pleased to read that funding is in place to keep the Balboa Island ferries running. Where will the new ferries be built? We like to take out-of-town visitors to lunch, which include a no-frills cruise.

– Ron Lesovsky, Huntington Beach

A: Excellent choice of fun, Ron.

You reminded Honk to get his family out there soon — it’s been too long for the ol’ gent.

The family-owned company, born in 1919, that carries people, bicycles and cars across Newport Bay is replacing...