REGENT Completes the World’s First Seaglider Factory in Rhode Island

REGENT completes the world’s first Seaglider factory in Rhode Island

REGENT Craft, the Rhode Island company building what it calls an entirely new category of maritime transportation, announced June 16 that it has completed a 255,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, purpose-built for a vessel that travels like a boat, lifts onto underwater foils like a racing yacht, and then takes off to […]

World’s First Seaglider Factory Is Ready to Roll in Rhode Island

Every engineering startup out there, no matter the field it operates in, lives on the edge until the production lines for whatever product they make are up and running. When that happens, you can bet their ideas, no matter how wacky, will become a reality. A while back, we started talking about a new kind of sea vessel being researched in the U.S. by a company called Regent. Officially classified as a Seaglider, this vessel is, in essenc... (co…

Regent Craft Finishes Electric Seaglider Production Center in Rhode Island

Regent Craft, the Rhode Island-based developer of electric, wing-in-ground effect (WIG) seaglider vessels, said Tuesday that it completed the facility that will anchor its global manufacturing activities. The 255,000-square-foot site at 1 Seaglider Way in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, will handle end-to-end production for Regent’s 12-passenger Viceroy craft, as well as Squire, its autonomous, hybrid-electric military variant. The company is als…