Mark Lindsay, a Life in Boatbuilding
In Professional BoatBuilder No.182, Paul Lazarus noted the September 6 passing of Mark Lindsay, and included a personal appreciation of his work and influence in the boatbuilding industry and on… Read more »
Author: Paul Lazarus
States of the Tooling Art
Longtime editor Paul Lazarus’s deep dive into the capacities and promise of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures & Composites Center in “Large Print,” Professional BoatBuilder No. 181, spurred him… Read more »
Meade’s Trove of NASA Wood Fatigue Data
The two pages of compression-fatigue data shown here, along with secondary properties, represent the heart of an expensive, years-long study of lab samples and full-scale specimens—of wood/epoxy construction for composite… Read more »
Work in Progress
Our profile of independent Swedish naval architect Petter Håkanson in Professional BoatBuilder (see “Fast Boats for Professionals. Plus a Few Yachtsmen.” PBB No. 167, June/July 2017) concentrated on his career… Read more »
Designer/Builder Dave Sintes: 1947–2016
The name may not be familiar to many in the marine industry, but Dave Sintes enjoyed a strong following among those who knew him and his work. It was two… Read more »
Sonny Levi: 1926-2016
In 1992, designer-engineer Renato “Sonny” Levi (pronounced levee) published Milestones in My Designs, a large-format hardcover book highlighting then-40 years’ worth of his marine “projects,” which he summarized this way:… Read more »
MDT’s Vector 40
Last May, while on location near Stockholm, Sweden, preparing a profile of Hamnvägen-based Mannerfelt Design Team for Professional BoatBuilder magazine (see the cover story of PBB No. 163, Oct/Nov 2016),… Read more »
Ken Raybould on Structural Cores—Part 2
During the late 1990s, marine-composites expert Ken Raybould, based in Southampton, U.K. but consulting internationally, was an important contributor to Professional BoatBuilder’s IBEX seminar program as a speaker and a… Read more »
Ken Raybould on Structural Cores—Part 1
Now retired (well, mostly retired), Ken Raybould has had an impressive career in the marine industry that can be said to have begun with raceboats. In the realm of power,… Read more »
Ambiguous Ancestry
Born and raised in Nova Scotia but schooled in Britain, Commodore Fraser Fraser-Harris flew carrier-based fighter-bombers and fighter planes throughout the Second World War, and later captained surface combatants… Read more »
