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WISTA Chapter Hosts ‘Lunch & Learn’ With SCI’s Tom Rhoades The Rev. Tom Rhoades, center, with members of the New Orleans chapter of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

The Rev. Tom Rhoades, center, with members of the New Orleans chapter of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

WISTA Chapter Hosts ‘Lunch & Learn’ With SCI’s Tom Rhoades

March 9, 2020

The New Orleans chapter of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) hosted a “Lunch & Learn” event March 4 featuring the Rev. Tom Rhoades, river chaplain with Seamen’s… Read More

Industry People On The Move

October 21, 2019

Stuart Gordon has been named operations manager of Economy Boat Store’s locations in St. Louis, Mo., and Wood River, Ill. Gordon, who has been with the company since 2008 and… Read More

Historic Boat-Builder’s Journey And Where It Led The replica flatboat Patience moored at the Economy Boat docks in Wood River, Ill.; a member of boat-builder Scott Mandrell’s crew looks on. (Photo courtesy of Scott Mandrell)

The replica flatboat Patience moored at the Economy Boat docks in Wood River, Ill.; a member of boat-builder Scott Mandrell’s crew looks on. (Photo courtesy of Scott Mandrell)

Historic Boat-Builder’s Journey And Where It Led

August 9, 2019

Scott Mandrell’s journey began as a story about boating “back then.” But it turned into a story about the river community today. Mandrell is a native son of Mississippi River… Read More

Four Long-Timers—Cumulative Experience, 200 Years—Retiring From Economy Boat Store Economy Boat Store, Davenport, Zupan

Four Long-Timers—Cumulative Experience, 200 Years—Retiring From Economy Boat Store

December 14, 2018

No sooner had this story—which is about two soon-to-retire rivermen who have spent their entire careers with the same company—started to take shape than it quickly doubled in scope. Two… Read More