Red Right Returning presents news, notes and commentary about the marine assistance & salvage industry. This web site is published by Douglas Gould, and is not affilitated with any towing company or membership network. Its just one guy's opinion.

Fines for hiker rescue in New Hampshire

Maine Daily News – Portland Maine News | Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram.
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire plans to fine a Massachusetts teenager for the cost of rescuing him from Mount Washington in April.
A planned day hike turned into three nights alone in the woods for Scott Mason, a 17-year-old Eagle Scout from [...]

July 18, 2009 Read the full article →

Who’s in charge here?

Two days ago, I got this email:

Hello,

The coast_guard_e-newsletter mailing list is now only open to users
who have a uscg.mil mailing address. Because your email address does
not comply with this rule, you are being removed from the list. If you
would like to subscribe to the list with a valid uscg.mil email
address you can do so by [...]

June 26, 2009 Read the full article →

Travelers added to Dow Industrials

In case you missed it:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=al4izq9tLoDo
June 1 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp. and Citigroup Inc., crippled by the first global recession since World War II, were removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average and replaced by Cisco Systems Inc. and Travelers Cos……
Travelers, the second-biggest U.S. commercial insurer, joins JPMorgan Chase & Co., American Express Co. and [...]

June 11, 2009 Read the full article →

Slow month for RRR

A slow month for me as far as posting. All the latest news, like Genmar going CH 11, and SeaRay shutting down for 90 days; those stories are widely reported and I assume everyone has seen them. So much of the last 30 days’ boating headlines has been economically related, and we don’t need to [...]

June 5, 2009 Read the full article →

Block Island Town weighs in on “fee for rescue” issue.

Most of you know that I run a towboat out on Block Island each summer (see About Me Page). Today, the Block Island Times reports that the town is considering charging for the services provided by the volunteer Rescue Squad. [click here for complete story]

Rescue Squad may charge for services
05/16/09 – With the town facing [...]

May 18, 2009 Read the full article →

Treasury Agrees To Aid Insurers – washingtonpost.com

The Treasury yesterday granted preliminary approval for some of the nation’s largest insurance companies to receive capital infusions under the government’s Troubled Assets Relief Program, Treasury spokesman Andrew Williams said.
via Treasury Agrees To Aid Insurers – washingtonpost.com.
….your tax dollars hard at work. Remember when a TARP was a big heavy peice of canvas to cover [...]

May 15, 2009 Read the full article →

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