Two businessmen have teamed up with a United States
company to develop a 1,300-foot-long zip-line that would send riders flying along a cable in the air above Cane Garden Bay at speeds up to 62 miles per hour.
Several dozen residents gathered at the Cane Garden Bay Community Centre last Thursday evening to hear details of a proposal from Albion “Bobby” Hodge and Jenaro Callwood to build the ride, which the men claim would benefit the area by generating extra tourist traffic.
During the ride, which was designed by the American firm Zip-Flyer LLC but would be operated locally by Messrs. Hodge and Callwood’s company Zipline Entertaining, participants would experience a 520-foot vertical drop, said Shawn Lerner, Zip-Flyer LLC’s CEO.
The proposed ride would begin from a tower located at property owned by Mr. Hodge’s family on the hillside in the northern part of CGB and carry riders suspended at least 40 feet in the air down to a tower on property that Mr. Callwood’s family owns near the beach, the developers said.
The ride would consist of four 0.75-inch cables running parallel to each other and would take riders over the water for a significant portion of the ride, according to plans presented by VI architect Richard Courtney deCastro.
See the April 19, 2012 edition for full coverage.
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