BEACON, NY — Clearwater is pleased to announce that it has established a Corporate Membership with Scarano Boat Building of Albany, NY. Scarano Boat Building designs and builds period wood, aluminum, composite, and steel boats that are Coast Guard certified for public transportation and excursions.
Founded by John Scarano in 1974, with Richard Scarano joining in 1984, Scarano Boat has found a niche in the production of replica sailing vessels and certified passenger vessels with classic styling and appointments, striving to provide customers with vessels that combine the best of old world charm and today’s most advanced, proven technologies. A leader in the industry, the company was contracted by the National Park Service in 1996 to build The Friendship of Salem, the largest operational sailing vessel built in the northeastern United States in the past 100 years.
Scarano Boat Building takes pride in its adaptability and craftsmanship and works in a wide variety of materials, including carbon fiber and Kevlar since the early 1980s. With over a quarter century of experience with composites, Scarano Boat creates and builds fast vessels with excellent strength to weight ratios, while maintaining high safety standards.
Scarano Boat Building shares Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc.’s commitment to protecting the environment and improving the health of our waterways. In addition to supporting Clearwater as a Corporate Member, Scarano is performing the sloop’s U.S. Coast Guard stability test as she completes extensive restoration work this spring. Scarano Boat Building is located at 194 South Port Rd., Albany, NY. For more information about Scarano Boat Building, visit www.scaranoboat.com.
“Clearwater is delighted to launch our Corporate Membership program and is actively seeking corporate partners who want to support the organization. We are pleased to have Scarano Boat join us and support our work and philosophy of thinking globally, acting locally,” said Executive Director, Jeff Rumpf, “We want to invest and do business with our Hudson Valley neighbors, and Scarano is a natural fit.”
Clearwater is a community made up of select group of small and large businesses that share a vision and passion for the Hudson River, and are key to the organization’s success, providing much needed funding for programs. Corporate Members also help in other ways, such as providing materials for our vessels and other in-kind donations. Corporate Members help Hudson River Sloop Clearwater keep costs down in order to deliver our many quality programs to the community.
Corporate Membership offers businesses the opportunity to develop a customized sponsorship program that meets the needs of a company, which can include community outreach programs, on-site presence at Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, educational programs, team building, corporate volunteer days and more!
NOTE: Corporate Memberships may not be accepted from entities associated with tobacco, alcohol, illegal products, gambling, adult services, the arms trade broadly defined, significant environmental polluters or those who countenance environmental degradation or oppressive labor conditions. Since Clearwater programs and actions must be based upon ethical, sustainable and ecologically responsible practices, Corporate Member entities are to be held to the same standards. Corporate Memberships must comply with Clearwater’s policies on conflict of interest, and Clearwater reserves the right to refuse or decline any Corporate Membership application at its absolute discretion.
For more information about the Clearwater Corporate Membership program, visit www.clearwater.org/membership/corporate-membership , or contact Suzanne Smith, Corporate Sponsorship Coordinator, at Sponsors@Clearwater.org, or 845 265 8080, x7161.
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