Sometime around 2010, German boatbuilder Friedrich Deimann built his first flax-fiber composite boat, a two-person kayak, as a project to qualify as a master boatbuilder. In the ensuing 16 years, the art of building boats with natural-fiber composites has come a long way.
Boat Evolution’s 3D-printed tender is made from recyclable plastic feedstocks, so it’s fully recyclable at end of life. They plan to be in production this fall.
Fogg’s Boatworks embraces the latest in electric propulsion as it delivers practical metal hulls for work and pleasure. Anyone who has ever used a backing-out plane or an oyster knife… Read more »
The best journalistic source is one who knows full clear details of the story you are reporting. Ideally, they’ve been around from before the full arc of the narrative commences,… Read more »
It’s rare to find a truly new approach to a problem that’s plagued seafarers for millennia, but Finsulate film wrap offers such a fix for marine fouling. Life abounds in… Read more »
Fiberglass boatbuilding started small with dinghies, skiffs, and runabouts—low stakes structures that early adopters could experiment on as they pushed the structural limitations of the new material. Big boats were… Read more »
Its alluring blue waters appear idyllic in travel brochures and color charts, but the Caribbean is not a gentle sea. Generations of mariners have been challenged by its seasons of… Read more »
Multihull pioneer Walter Greene kept a deliberately low profile as he built some of the legendary racing sailboats of the last century at Greene Marine, a disarmingly modest yard on… Read more »
In the eye of the discerning boatbuilder or buyer, beauty is more than skin deep. Not just the glossy surface finish determines the quality of a paint job; the underlying… Read more »
I first visited Tern Boatworks (Lahave, Nova Scotia) in the spring of 2022. At that time, the two-campus boatyard with a crew of about 12 was focused on readying the… Read more »
