Aquidneck Home started after I realized Rhode Island was home. Years at sea took me a lot of places, but Rhode Island is where I feel fully connected.

Two decades working on boats — as a sailor and professionally from 2004 onward, running and maintaining complex vessels offshore. That kind of work teaches you something specific: when the owner steps aboard, everything works. Systems running, weather read right, problems caught before they're problems. At sea, "that's not my job" isn't an answer. You learn the electrical, the plumbing, the hydraulics, the rigging, the electronics — or the trip doesn't happen.

That same standard is what Aquidneck Home brings to houses. I'm a licensed Rhode Island general contractor (GC-52561) serving Newport to Narragansett.

After coming ashore, I lived on the Point in Newport's historic district for years before settling into another old house in Wakefield. Old houses have their own logic, and the ones I've owned have been good teachers.

The work runs from your punch list — picture hanging, cabinet adjustments, the small things that have been bugging you for months — to complicated installations and integrated systems where three trades have to coordinate cleanly. What you don't get from me is the contractor who shrugs at anything outside one narrow lane. Years at sea taught me how to think across systems, troubleshoot under pressure, and stay calm when something unexpected shows up. That's the part most homeowners are actually paying for.

Off the clock, I'm a dog parent, a skier, a cyclist, a serious coffee drinker, and over a decade into foiling water sports. When you arrive, everything works.

— Matthew Reinhardt