Atlanta Magazine Photograph by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Tracking the long, strange trip of the Golden Ray A boat carrying 4,200 cars capsized in St. Simons Sound in September 2019—and it’s still there. 648 People began to gather on the pier at daybreak—in ones and twos at first, dog walkers and early birds and retirees, but the crowd grew as the sky lightened and the sun pierced the horizon over the ocean. Actually, the sun was not the only thing piercing the horizon. Some improbable object, too, chugged steadily forward across the water. From the pier, it looked like St. Louis’s Gateway Arch, but yellow and sort of steampunk—less like a boat than a piece of heavy construction equipment. Which, essentially, it was: The