On November 13, 2017, Vripack will host its annual Pecha Kucha for boat designers in Amsterdam. Taking place the evening before METS (Marine Equipment Trade Show), the event will mark… Read more »
Recently the crew at Front Street Shipyard in Belfast, Maine, was faced with a challenge. How do you remove a damaged V-8 engine from a 135’ (41.1m) motoryacht without cutting… Read more »
Professional BoatBuilder readers may remember Kiko Villalon from Dan Spurr’s 2008 article “Out of Cuba” (issue No. 114), which describes his journey from his homeland of Cuba to an indirect… Read more »
Last year PBB investigated several potential solutions to reduce waste from composite boatbuilding and to dispose of the pile of unwanted used composite boats. Those included developments in carbon fiber… Read more »
In boatbuilding, when you see old tools, they’re likely doing the same job they’ve been doing dependably for many decades. At Commodore’s Boats, for instance, Paul Hansen prefers to use… Read more »
Chasing UFOs: A brief film about the UFO foiler Video by Billy Black When Dave and Steve Clark started designing the UFO (Unidentified Foiling Object) their intention was to make foiling technology… Read more »
The decisions that go into the design of a stepped hull are similar to the tradeoffs designers face with any other boat-design—every time you make one thing better, you compromise… Read more »
It’d be easy to assume that failure is not an option for Mark Richards. Profiled in Professional BoatBuilder No. 165 (February/March 2017), Richards has become famous in his native Australia… Read more »
It seems the off season is now show season. January is a busy month for marine industry events, and Professional BoatBuilder editors will be attending several trade shows and conferences. Here’s where we’ll be: ABYC… Read more »
In recent issues of PBB, Nigel Calder pointed out that statutory changes in fuel and emissions standards have caused unfortunate trade-offs for marine diesel engines. For example, where’s the environmental… Read more »
