Manufactured sheet goods are essential to modern construction practices. Few residential or commercial structures built today are completed without a significant investment in plywood, OSB, MDF, sheetrock, melamine board, etc…. Read more »
Reading the Small Print Easily stored in a garage or closet and transportable on a bicycle, surfboards are some of the simplest buoyant watercraft on the market today. But as… Read more »
Until recently the pursuit of sustainability has set any boatbuilders who subscribe to it on a rough and somewhat lonely path. Since the dawn of series-built composite boat production in… Read more »
Recycling end-of-life composite boats or the production waste from composite boat building has been a subject of interest at IBEX and Professional BoatBuilder during the past decade. As with many… Read more »
In this age of relentless automation, even boatbuilding is subject to tech-driven change as everything from components assembly and supply-chain management to service scheduling and systems diagnostics are being entrusted… Read more »
As the tides of editorial staff and contributors at Professional BoatBuilder ebbed and flowed through my two decades with the magazine, I’ve been grateful that one of the constants in… Read more »
In my professional life, I’ve dismissed most artificial intelligence (AI) tools I stumble across as manifestations of a flawed invention consistently oversold by hubristic tech bros and investment con-artists. For… Read more »
A flawless laid teak deck has long defined the aspirational expectations for yacht owners, but scarcity of the hard, rot-resistant tropical wood and shifts in aesthetic sensibilities and a market… Read more »
Dear Professional BoatBuilder magazine subscribers, After three months of uncertainty about the future of the boatbuilding industry’s technical journal, I’m happy to report that we will continue to publish in… Read more »
Recyclable thermoplastic resin and a crew of trainees are put to the test building a commercial fishing boat at DJ Marine in Pointe-Sapin, New Brunswick.
