Fair Warnings
From “Rovings,” Professional BoatBuilder No. 156 Compiled by Dan Spurr They seem to be everywhere these days, often declaring the obvious: the presence of nuts in a nut mix, the… Read more »
Author: Aaron Porter
Design Challenge IV Call for Entries
For pure fun, speed, and versatility on the water, it’s hard to beat the family runabout. Whether for fishing, picnicking, waterskiing, or just whizzing around on a sunny summer’s day,… Read more »
PechaKucha At IBEX 2011
Among other firsts introduced at IBEX 2011 was Professional BoatBuilder magazine’s Design X PechaKucha for boat designers. What’s that? you ask. PechaKucha is a rigid, allegedly Japanese presentation format that… Read more »
Design Challenge III Winners
Winners of Professional BoatBuilder’s “Design Challenge III: A Fast Expedition Sailboat” are featured in the Design Brief in No. 133, the IBEX issue of the magazine, scheduled for print and… Read more »
IBEX Seminars as Articles
Technical Seminars at IBEX and the Professional BoatBuilder Stories They Spawned Since the first IBEX (International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition) was created as an offshoot of Professional BoatBuilder magazine in 1990, technical… Read more »
Huckins Motoryacht With a Pod Drive
In Professional BoatBuilder No. 129, contributing writer Eric Sorensen reports on the repowering of a 1954-vintage Huckins Fairform Flyer by a crew at Yachting Solutions in Rockport, Maine. Noteworthy is… Read more »
Cutting a St. Ayles Skiff
For anyone who has spiled and cut planks from rough lumber or plywood stock, seeing a computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine make short and precise work of the task is humbling. A… Read more »
Design Challenge II Winners
Professional BoatBuilder and WoodenBoat magazines’ second design challenge drew 58 excellent submissions from professional and amateur designers in 17 countries. Our panel of judges had the pleasure of studying all… Read more »
Design Challengers
This scorching first week of July, we at Professional BoatBuilder were lucky to have some business to attend to on the water. Two boats built to designs from our 2009… Read more »
School Launchings Spring 2010
Just a few years ago the most frequent complaint among boatbuilders was the scarcity of good experienced workers and reasonably skilled entry-level employees. Most builders would happily trade their current… Read more »
