Couple finds pearl digging for clams in Narragansett

newsblog.projo.com – The couple, in their early 50s, dug a bucket of clams in the beautiful weather, Ken Wunschel said, bought some lobsters and went home for a feast.

Cathy Wunschel said she put some littlenecks on the grill so they could snack while the lobsters were cooking.

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Learning aboard a legend

Herreshoff boating program utilizes 1929 sailboat

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The music video – NYYC RACE WEEK at NEWPORT presented by Rolex

Race results posted here.

Herreshoff Classic Regatta – Aug 27-29

The 2010 Herreshoff Classic Regatta is an annual event drawing hundreds of participants from around the world. Classic and Herreshoff boat owners gather for a weekend of challenging races and social events.

The weekend includes the race for the prestigious Bill Swan Memorial Trophy, the Livingston’s Wind Hill Trophy for Herreshoff 12 1/2s, and a traditional New England Clambake on the waterfront.

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Super Models

In recent years, advances in technology and science have enabled humans to create almost anything so quickly and efficiently that we’re often shocked and unsettled when asked to wait for something. We’re living in an age where many photographers and filmmakers shoot “digitally”. Art, architecture and design are often created on computers and correspondence is instantaneous and “online”. However, there are still some objects that time, science and technology have yet to plot a shortcut to. Finely detailed custom models of ships and yachts are among those objects. A great model builder requires a mastery of many exacting skill sets. He or she must at the very least be a draftsman, a woodworker, a machinist, a jeweler and a painter. It should also help to have infinite patience and the hands of a surgeon. Joseph Wheeler Appleton (1900 – 1958) was just such a craftsman.

The Appleton exhibit was put together by Jay Picotte in the new IYRS library. It’s only there until Sept. 15 and it is an unbelievable collection of some of the best yacht models ever built, all from private collections. (more…)

Be Prepared

If you are looking for hurricane preparation information and resources check out Gowrie Groups new hurricane resources page!

NOAA’s 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook calls for an 85% chance of an above normal season. They estimate a 70% probability of the following: (more…)

All the cool boats show up in Newport!

This VICEM 72 just arrived in Newport. She’s featured by VICEM Yachts Newport and available.

She is a 2008 VICEM 72 Classic flybridge, and has been VICEM’S European demo yacht since new. With 1550 hp (ea) MAN power plants she can easily cruise at 28 knots. Equipment includes: twin Onan generators, a set of Trac 250 stabilizers, and a full set of Raymarine electronics. This 72 is a 3 cabin 3 head layout, with the galley down, and a lower salon, and crew cabin with two berths and a head.

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John Kerry skips town on sails tax

myfoxboston.com – Isabel - Kerry’s luxe, 76-foot New Zealand-built Friendship sloop with an Edwardian-style, glossy varnished teak interior, two VIP main cabins and a pilothouse fitted with a wet bar and cold wine storage – was designed by Rhode Island boat designer Ted Fontaine.

Isabel is at Little Harbor in Portsmouth. Rhode Island

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Political shipwreck – 7 mil to New Zealand

bostonherald.com - New England boat builders say shame on Sen. John Kerry for buying a $7 million New Zealand-built luxury yacht while local ship makers struggle to find work.

“Darn, that would have been a wonderful job for a Maine builder,” said Jane Wellehan, president of the trade group Maine Built Boats. “If someone comes to build a $7 million boat that would employ half the population of some towns for a year or two. Boat building is such a critical component of our coastal economy.”

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America’s Cup TV trials

Day 1 rushes posted: The rushes from the first day of the America’s Cup TV trials

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Local waters warmer than usual

“When you have higher temperatures, you’re at a higher risk to have those low oxygen events, and that can cause fish kills,” Stoffel explains.

Warmer water can also help fuel hurricanes. “That’s definitely on our radar,” Stoffel said.

The Cup Isn’t Coming to Newport…BUT

newport-now.com – NEWPORT, R.I. – Newport will not play host to the next America’s Cup.

Just days after the Cup and members from BMW Oracle Racing visited Rhode Island on an east coast victory tour, team CEO Larry Ellison announced that San Francisco would be the only American city considered for the next Cup match.

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Stormy

Monday July 20. The first half of the biennial New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex, which finished up yesterday for seven classes, has also now concluded for five more one-design classes that have been racing since Saturday. The catch, however, was that today’s first race had to be abandoned and then competition cancelled when severe thunderstorms passed over Rhode Island Sound, leaving winners to be determined by cumulative standings posted yesterday.

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Rhode Island’s Tall Ship

Update!

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) just accepted the plans for going forward on modifications to the 130-foot steel hull of the ship, which is currently at Promet Marine in Providence. (An animated 3-D drawing of the ship’s hull can be found at http://www.baymarine.us/animation/animation.html

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US SAILING Sailor of the Week

America’s Cup with the kids

Ben Rosenberg of EGYC is picked as sailor of the week for his participation in the BMW ORACLE Racing Team Q&A during the cup visit.