The 52nd annual Newport International Boat Show presented by BankNewport will include a wide variety of educational activities for attendees and boating enthusiasts. This year’s show will take place Sep. 14-17, 2023, at the Newport Yachting Center in downtown Newport, R.I. New educational offerings will include a series of educational and interactive seminars as part [...]

Advanced Textiles Association (ATA) will present a webinar discussing the market outlook for group benefits, health insurance and retirement plans as 2024 approaches. The webinar will be held August 23, 2023, from 1–2 pm ET and is free for ATA members and nonmembers. Given rising interest rates, high inflation, and a possible recession looming, business [...]

The American Boat and Yacht Council (ABYC) has published its 63rd supplement to Standards and Technical Information Reports for Small Craft. The annual publication provides the international marine industry with the latest updates to the boat building and repair standards used for over 90% of the boats constructed in the United States. On Aug. 16, [...]

The 2024 MFA Fabrication Excellence Awards program is now open for entries. The deadline to submit projects is October 31, 2023. From design excellence to quality workmanship, the MFA Fabrication Excellence Awards program showcases projects that represent the breadth of the industry—from tops and covers to interior and exterior upholstery. Categories include: •Hybrid Enclosures: Sailboat [...]

Advanced Textiles Association (ATA) has joined with more than 500 trade associations, professional societies, businesses and employers to form the Tomorrow’s Workforce Coalition, established to build support for the Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act (S. 722 / H.R. 1477). The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and the Professional Certification Coalition (PCC) lead [...]

Registration is now open for the next webinar in the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and American Boat and Yacht Council (ABYC) free online USCG/ABYC Risk Mitigation Series. Taking place Nov. 1, 2023, from 2-4 p.m. EST, the upcoming webinar will be "Navigating Compliance in the Age of Evolving Technology." ABYC and USCG experts will explore [...]

The deadline to submit speaker presentations for the Advanced Textiles Association (ATA) Women in Textiles Summit taking place Feb. 12–14, 2024, in Phoenix, Ariz., is August 3, 2023. This is an opportunity to share expertise, empower others and shape this event with bold and valuable content. Event organizers are seeking speakers who support the Women [...]

Registration remains open and the full schedule is now available for the Marine Fabricators Association (MFA) Northwest Regional Workshop being held Sept. 22–23, 2023, at Oyster Creek Canvas, Bellingham, Wash., and the MFA Great Lakes Workshop being held Nov. 17-18, 2023, at Chicago Marine Canvas in Chicago, Ill. The workshops will provide networking and hands-on [...]

A comprehensive binational independent study of the economic impacts in the U.S. and Canada of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway navigation system for the 2022 shipping season details billions in economic activity and hundreds of thousands of jobs supported by the industry. Titled “Economic Impacts of Maritime Shipping in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Region,” the [...]

The most recent episode of the Advanced Textiles Association “Talking Textiles” podcast is entitled “Making Marine Canvas from 9-to-5.” Host Kyle Van Damme, co-owner of Marine Tops Unlimited Inc. in Omro, Wis., sits down with guest Mike Charlton who, with his wife Rachel, owns Charlton’s Marine Canvas in Yorktown, Va., to have a candid conversation [...]