Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation has delivered a second high-speed passenger ferry to Rhode Island Fast Ferry Inc., Quonset Point, R.I. The ferry will operate between Quonset Point and Martha’s Vineyard, alongside Ava Pearl, the operator’s first high-speed catamaran built by Somerset, Mass.-based Gladding-Hearn in 2012.
Designed by Incat Crowther, the new 320-passenger, all-aluminum catamaran Julia Leigh measures 113.5’x32.4′ and draws 6′. Entrance into the boat is through the...