Richard Scarano is the Vice President of Scarano Boat Building, located in the Port of Albany, Albany, New York. The primary business of Scarano Boat is to design and build period wood, aluminum and steel boats, Coast Guard certified for public transportation and excursions. Richard Scarano is responsible for business development and management, and for systems installation, quality control and production of SB passenger vessels. Scarano Boat has developed a national reputation for modern wood construction. The business was founded by John Scarano in 1974 and Richard Scarano joined the company in 1984.
Scarano Boat has found a niche in the production of period and replica sailing vessels, and certified passenger vessels with classic styling and appointments. Among their achievements, Scarano Boat was contracted by the National Parks Service in 1996 to build The Friendship of Salem, one of the largest wooden vessels constructed over the past fifty years in the United States. The Friendship is a replica of a full-rigged ship, which has an overall a length of one hundred and seventy feet and is permanently located in Salem, Massachusetts, as a public museum.
Richard Scarano also operates Classic Harbor Line and Sailing Excursions, offering public sails on Schooners Imagine, Adirondack I and II and the classic motor vessel Manhattan. These vessels, each eighty feet long, designed by Scarano Boat, are owned by the company in two locations, historic Newport, Rhode Island, and New York Harbor. Richard Scarano is professionally associated with a number of public programs and cultural organizations serving the New York Harbor and the Hudson River waterfront. Adirondack Sailing Excursions offers educational programs on the water through sail training to inner city youth and support for institutions preserving US maritime heritage and history.
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