Loxo 32: Pogo’s Power Cruiser
Pogo Structures, a French builder of racing and performance sailing yachts, expanded into the power market with the Loxo 32 (9.5m/31.17‘). This simple low-impact coastal cruiser is now also offered… Read more »
Pilot Boat Evolution – Professional BoatBuilder Issue 188, Dec/Jan 2021 — Launching Polaris III
Recent Posts
Oscar, Your Virtual Lookout
Deadheads, sleeping leviathans, wayward shipping containers, maybe a disabled autonomous surface vessel, or a drifting wreck: countless unknown (and unseen) floating objects (also referred to as UFOs) that populate the… Read more »
Legend Relaunches Wheeler Brand
When we write about classic boats, successful yards, and legendary naval architects, it’s easy to overuse the word iconic. But in the recent revival of the Wheeler Yacht Company with… Read more »
The Quest for Eco Composites
Boat yards and design offices embrace new fibers and resins that promise to reduce pollution, consume less energy in production, and yield composite boats that can be recycled. “It is… Read more »
Nordlund’s Family Ties
Nordlund Boat Company of Tacoma, Washington, is one of the few remaining family-owned yacht builders in the U.S. When I was researching the story of the two pilot vessels the… Read more »
BoatSense Renders Sensible Advice
Catching up by phone recently with fellow writer and esteemed colleague Doug Logan sent us two boat scribes of a certain age fishing for the treasures that drift in the… Read more »
IHS Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Foiling is fun and very efficient way of moving boats at high speed with less fuel. Over the past few decades it has graduated from a niche application for military… Read more »
Farewell to Dugie Freeman
In 1969, Dugie Freeman and his father, Ed, along with Jim Howard formed Freeman-Howard, a company that built oceangoing commercial fishing boats. The first one was an all-steel Edwin Monk–designed… Read more »
Tullio Abbate – A Tribute
The scene was filmed somewhere in the Mediterranean, off the French coast. A speedboat bearing the signature “Tullio Abbate” and the name Mister Nicolas on the hull was running on… Read more »
Angle-Rite Welding Clamp Streamlines Fabrication
To get it straight, start with a curve. That, in a nutshell, is Tim Uecker’s pitch for the Angle-Rite clamping system he invented and patented. It’s a plain yet sophisticated… Read more »
