{"id":3392,"date":"2010-12-15T07:06:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2010-12-15T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T20:44:11","slug":"morning-read-kingston-boat-builder-expands-in-clayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/12\/15\/morning-read-kingston-boat-builder-expands-in-clayton\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Kingston boat builder expands in Clayton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Country has been a boat-builders&#8217; mecca for a century and a half, and the St. Lawrence River town of Clayton &#8212; with its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abm.org\/\">Antique Boat Museum<\/a> &#8212; is one of the epicenters of that tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Watertown Daily Times is reporting that the town&#8217;s boat-building industry will grow a bit in the coming year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MetalCraft will supply five models of 28- to  45-foot aluminum patrol boats, which will be known as the Sentry series,  under a recent supply agreement with Brunswick Commercial and  Government Products, Robert Clark, MetalCraft contracts manager, said  Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MetalCraft, which branched out to Clayton about a decade ago, now is short on manpower and space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our shop in Clayton is already full and  we&#8217;re looking for space to rent right now. We&#8217;re also looking to hire  five to six new employees by next spring,&#8221; Mr. Clark said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MetalCraft is HQ&#8217;d in Kingston, Ontario.\u00a0 Which means that this is also another Canadian company boosting its investment south of the border.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20101215\/NEWS03\/312159977\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Country has been a boat-builders&#8217; mecca for a century and a half, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[880,4849,10,878,4848],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}