Now I don't want to get anyone's hopes up but I did chat with the dev I know and right now he is busy working on another project that was dead thanks to the dev leaving. However he is going to ask someone he knows that might be interested in taking over boat and bringing it back to life. I'll keep everyone posted once I get some news on this which I hope to be real soon.
This is awesome news for all the people involved. Thanks for the heads-up!
You're welcome my friend, if this one doesn't go through I got another dev that could be interested. The only problem I seem to be facing right now is that the Boat community is not active which is a negative on the devs I'm talking too. I have put to them that Boat does have some positives like being listed on 2 exchanges TradeSatoshi and Coinexchange, we have a working wallet with 30+ active connections, listed on CMC, a working explorer and that the chain is almost 2 years old. I also believe we still have the community, its just that most ain't active here anymore and maybe if they see that a dev has taken over the project that they will become active again. I know one thing for sure and that is I'm not giving up on finding someone to take over Boat.
Another good news from you, awesome!
As for the community I suggest a Bounty campaign - Twitter, Facebook, maybe a sig campaign, Discord, Telegram, this will mobilize people and also will bring more new one on board.