The Army Corps of Engineers evaluating proposal to deepen Intracoastal Waterway in Riviera Beach

Plans are moving forward to dredge the area around the Palm Beach inlet, Peanut Island and the Port of Palm Beach. We should know more later this year. This could affect the size of yachts that can visit the Rybovich marina. Click title for link to article.

 Boatyards like Rybovich support the plan to dredge because mega yachts are getting bigger and bigger and some of the world's largest cannot fit into the boatyards because the Intracoastal Waterway isn't deep enough.
"There are occasions now we have to turn people away because they don't have the draft to make it," Jason Sprague with Rybovich Boat Co. said.
Three hundred employees work at Rybovich now. If the Intracoastal is deepened to accommodate the larger yachts, Sprague estimates the company could hire as many as 300 more employees.