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Third annual R.I. Startup Week to begin with ‘Innovation Crawl’

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Startup Week will kick off its third annual series of programming at the end of the month, beginning with an “Innovation Crawl” on Sept. 29. The...

Regent’s Seaglider completes inaugural flight over Narragansett Bay

PROVIDENCE – Regent Craft Inc.’s high-tech Seaglider took flight for the first time over Narragansett Bay, the company announced in September, paving the way for...

Sailing hall of fame organizations form partnership in Newport

NEWPORT –The National Sailing Hall of Fame and Herreshoff Marine Museum & America’s Cup Hall of Fame announced on Wednesday that their partnership will open an...

Gowrie Group launches ‘classic yacht’ insurance

NEWPORT – Gowrie Group, an independent marine insurance agency, is launching a “classic yacht” insurance program for high-end wooden-boat owners. To be eligible, boats must...
BANNER EVENT: Sail Newport Executive Director Brad Read, this year’s Volvo Ocean Race stopover executive director, and Sue Maffei Plowden, race event director, stand on the porch of the Sail Newport Sailing Center with the banner for Volvo Ocean Race Newport. The city is the lone North American stopover for the 2017-18 international race.
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Will experience pay off as Newport prepares to once again host...

Martha Parker looks back fondly on the 2015 Volvo Ocean Race Newport stopover and the favorable impact it had on her foul-weather sailing gear...
SKIFF WORK: Kirk Cusic, green shirt, executive director of the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, works with students on a traditional Westport skiff, as part of the Rhode Island Marine Trades Association’s Youth Summer Boatbuilding Program.  / COURTESY RIMTA/BILLY BLACK

RIMTA using youth boatbuilding program to combat ‘graying’ workforce

A major concern for Rhode Island Marine Trades Association CEO Wendy Mackie is the large number of Ocean State marine-trades and composite-manufacturing workers retiring...
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