NEW HAVEN >> Mike Vespoli has been a team player all his life. So when it came time to transition to retirement, he picked a model that shifts the responsibility of ownership to the biggest team of ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, Mi (WPBN/WGTU) -- Lake Leelanau Rowing Club unveiled nine brand new Vespoli racing shells Sunday to kick off its competitive season. The shells cost a total of $215,000 and were ...

NEW HAVEN — Mike Vespoli has been either rowing or building racing shells — those sleek, missile-like boats that oarsmen and women propel for recreation and glory — for 52 of his 69 years. He was a ...

Sitting inside the 45-foot Vespoli racing shell, five teenage girls dip their oars in the murky gray waters of Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in preparation for the bob drill. “I’m the ...

A New Haven company’s products are being put to the test at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Vespoli USA builds racing shells for rowing teams and Olympians have competed in them dating back to the 1984 summer ...