Checking In

Prestige Yacht Sales has announced that career broker Fletcher Ryan has joined the sales team at the company’s Essex, CT office.

When Rich Wilson of Marblehead, MA sets sail in the Vendée Globe non-stop solo ‘round the world race on Sunday, November 6, 2016, he might be alone on the boat, but more than 500,000 school kids will be tracking his progress.

Offshore Sailing School is adding a new venue for its popular racing programs, at the Marriott Autograph Collection® Scrub Island Resort, Spa & Marina in the British Virgin Islands.

The Moorings has announced its newest charter destination in Puerto Rico, available to book now for vacations beginning in January 2017.

PassageMaker Magazine is presenting a series of Cruiserport University seminars during the Newport International Boat Show in Newport, RI.

Newport Exhibition Group has announced that its 46th Annual Newport International Boat Show will take place September 15 – 18, 2016 at the Newport Yachting Center in downtown Newport, Rhode Island.

Spike Lobdell, founder and President of New England Science & Sailing Foundation (NESS) in Stonington, CT, will receive the National Recreation Foundation’s 2016 Robert W. Crawford Achievement Prize in recognition of his service to the youth of New England.

Boating industry advertising and marketing veteran Elio Betty, who joined BoatUS Magazine in 2009 as Director of Advertising, has been appointed Publisher.

Sail Newport, a community sailing center in Newport, RI, has launched a $10 million Campaign for Blue Space to expand public access sailing programs, broaden its marine education programming, and build a new Mid-Park Marine Education and Recreation Center on the waterfront at Fort Adams State Park.

Hall, Inc. (Hall Spars & Rigging and Hall Composites) in Bristol, RI has announced that Tom Rossi is the new President and CEO of the company.