Viking Takes First Steps Toward Sanding Automation
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 »
Rovings
From Langan Design Partners, a Classic Cutter
Designing, engineering, and building sailing yachts 90′ (27.4m) or more in length once was common in the U.S. It’s happening again at Rockport Marine in Maine: Project Ouzel, a 95′… Read more »
Isobel Combines Classic Looks and Modern Tech
From the drawing board of Stephens Waring Design (Belfast, Maine) comes Isobel, a 26’6″ (8.5m) 1950s-inspired runabout being built at nearby Belmont Boatworks. The boat was commissioned by a longtime… Read more »
Raptor Deck: From Startup to Global Supplier
“We had no inkling of creating a business or anything. It was just a total fluke.” Dan Kaseler still chuckles when he relates the story that led him to start… Read more »
Saildrone Launches 65′ Aluminum USV
Richard Jenkins, an Englishman trained in mechanical engineering, stepped into the limelight on March 26, 2009, in California’s Mojave Desert by setting a 126.1 mph (203 km/h) land sailing speed… Read more »
Gunderson Marine Pays Welding Students
Gunderson Marine of Portland, Oregon, recently side-launched Makani Loa, a 438‘ x 105‘ (133.5m x 32m) container barge for Lynden/Alaska Marine Lines from its 58-acre (32.5-hectare) manufacturing site in the industrial area north… Read more »
Crushing the Marine Canvas Crunch
“Think outside the box” is more than a business school cliché, and Mike Beemer, department chair at Skagit Valley College’s (SVC) Marine Technology Center in Anacortes, Washington, is on a… Read more »
Stitch-and-Glue Canoe
As renowned wooden boat designer and builder Sam Devlin transitions into the calmer waters of his career, he’s handing the reins of Devlin Designing Boatbuilders to his son McKenzie and… Read more »
Rybovich Refit Revisited
A recent visit to Port Townsend, Washington, included a stop at Sea Marine to check on the refit of Lone Eagle II, a cold-molded 53‘ (16.15m) Rybovich from 1967 that found its… Read more »
Amphfoil marries Air Props and Hydrofoils
In the wake of the Miami International Boat Show in February, longtime builder of quality cruising sailboats Shannon Boat Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, announced the rollout of the Amphfoil… Read more »
