Bill Prince designs high-end replicas
Last we spoke with Bill Prince of Bill Prince Yacht Design (BPYD) was about a highly engineered hardtop for a 78-mph Schiada Boats express cruiser, destined for Kuwait (Professional BoatBuilder… Read more »
Black Plastic Boats
Tideman Boats had to define material-appropriate scantlings and build protocols before starting production of its line of high-density-polyethylene workboats featured in Professional BoatBuilder Issue 179, June/July 2019
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Diesel Outboards find bigger market
It is well known in the boating industry that the popularity of outboard motors continues to trend upward. I/Os are dead in the water. Inboards now seem relegated to midsize… Read more »
Raider Outboards are Military Grade
The High Speed Boat Operators (HSBO) Forum in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a gathering unlike any other. Uniforms are part of the ambience, as 370 delegates including search-and-rescue, police, customs, special… Read more »
Westlawn Students Chime In
In the December/January issue, No. 176, we invited Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology students past and present to share their experiences with and opinions about the 89-year-old distance-learning school specializing… Read more »
178 Short Cuts
Aside from company and product news, 178 Short Cuts also remembers Andrew Higgins, Raye Montague and Charles Everhart, three meritorious individuals of the boatbuilding and design trade who sailed for… Read more »
Hickman’s Imagination and the Dawn of Surface-Piercing Props
The most commonly recognized innovation of inventor and boat designer Albert Hickman is the inverted V hullform he patented and brought to market as the Sea Sled in the mid… Read more »
Unsinkable: The History of Boston Whaler
Paul Herzan, member of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum’s board of directors, has wide-ranging interests. The Smithsonian Institution’s website lists 53 objects he has been involved with, encompassing drawings, prints,… Read more »
Eight Bells: The Amazing Mr. Moesly
The article with the above title, written by PBB’s technical editor, Steve D’Antonio, in the October/November 2004 issue (No. 91), recounts with unfortunate-though-necessary brevity the incredible career of a modern-day… Read more »
Dunkirk Little Ship: Savior and Survivor
Our French correspondents, writer Gérald Guétat and photographer Henri Thibault, continue to present us with enthralling vignettes of old small boats of historical significance. Here it is Ona II, a… Read more »
Patch and Release: Refitting a Sportfisherman
Most yacht refits start with a well-worn or slightly outdated boat and a motivated owner looking to make it like new again. This one starts with a brand-new boat, the… Read more »
