Newport International Boat Show Celebrates 50 Years
Aug 10, 2021
3 minutes
—Kim Kavin
On September 24, 1972, The New York Times wrote about a naval architect and Vietnam veteran named Paul Dodson who, following the path of a new and exciting sailboat show in Annapolis, Maryland, had “incorporated the built-in magic of Newport, America’s Cup land, into another successful outdoor sailboat show.”
That was year two of the Newport Sailboat Show in Rhode Island, an event that today is known as the Newport International Boat Show. When the docks open this year from September 16
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