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Senator Reed joined representatives from Deepwater Wind, Blount Boats and Rhode Island Fast Ferry, and other elected officials to celebrate the construction of a new support vessel to service the Block Island Wind Farm project.

The support vessel is now under construction at Blount Boats’ Warren shipyard, where approximately 70 Rhode Islanders are working to build the 70-foot catamaran, the first of its kind in the United States.  The ship is scheduled to be put into service by the spring of 2016. 

Rhode Island Fast Ferry’s Atlantic Wind Transfers contracted with Blount Boats to build the vessel locally and will provide crew and equipment support during the construction of the Block Island Wind Farm.  Once the wind farm is up and running, Rhode Island Fast Ferry will provide operations and maintenance support for the next 20 years.

The Block Island Wind Farm is the first offshore wind farm in construction in the United States.