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A weekly summer series about boating in the Ocean
State
The stories
7.24.2006
Lazy days of kayaking
just a memory for racer
NORTH KINGSTOWN -- This was just a light training paddle a few days before a big race, but Wesley Echols had brought his fastest boat: a 21-foot carbon fiber surf ski shaped like a stiletto, a racing boat fast enough to shred the common image of kayaking as genteel recreation.
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7.10.2006
The admiral of Lilliput
WARREN -- Twenty years ago, when George Greenhalgh's garage workshop began overflowing with tools for building his model yachts, he expanded his operation to a spare bedroom.
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7.3.2006
Where 'there's
no traffic, no lights'
PROVIDENCE -- Primitive man is said to have enjoyed using boats during the Stone Age. Ray Robbio dates his personal appreciation for them to July 4, 2001. That night he and his wife, Cheryl, rode a ferry to Newport to watch the fireworks. Under a rain of crackling lights, they marveled at all those silhouetted boats anchored in the harbor. Soon after that summer holiday, the Robbios found themselves on the showroom floor at South Attleboro Marine.
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A guide to the City by the Sea, from its mansions to Cliff Walk.
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Boating news, helpful links and more about plying the waters of the Ocean State.
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Sail into the season with a guide to local events, places, food and fun.
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