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Expanding boat company seeks new emissions permit

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 01/08/09

In these tough economic times, one Annapolis boatbuilder is staying afloat - and then some.

Paul W. Gillespie - The Capital

TOP: Performance Cruising owner Tony Smith talks about his company's boats, the Gemini catamaran and the Telstar 28 trimaran. The Annapolis company plans to expand its boat-building operations, but is facing some resistance from neighbors in getting a new air-emissions permit from the state.
BOTTOM: Glenn Pierce seals a bag around the fiberglass mold of a hull for a boat he's working on at Performance Cruising. Workers use a vacuum technology to make the fiberglass instead of messy spraying. Company officials said the technique results in lower emissions, but they need a new state air-emissions permit to increase production, and some neighbors are concerned.

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Performance Cruising, on Edgewood Road along Back Creek, recently built a new building on its campus, part of an expansion to accommodate a state-of-the-art process for building a trimaran called the Telstar 28.

Tony Smith, company owner and president, said the $80,000 boat is the next wave in boat building. He said he hopes it will appeal to younger buyers interested in a small, fast, fun boat.

"Nobody in the world has a boat like this," he said, walking through the final assembly line.

But ramping up production...

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