The article with the above title, written by PBB’s technical editor, Steve D’Antonio, in the October/November 2004 issue (No. 91), recounts with unfortunate-though-necessary brevity the incredible career of a modern-day… Read more »
Our French correspondents, writer Gérald Guétat and photographer Henri Thibault, continue to present us with enthralling vignettes of old small boats of historical significance. Here it is Ona II, a… Read more »
≡ Chris-Craft, one of the oldest names in modern American boatbuilding, has new owners…again. This time it’s a nonnautical corporation big in the leisure industry—none other than RV manufacturer Winnebago… Read more »
Last fall, a couple of years since winning awards for their 18V TSC 55 Cordless Track Saw and BHC 18 Cordless Rotary Hammer Drill, Festool introduced a new line of abrasive… Read more »
Even after publishing a short item on the cause of pink stains on white vinyl boat seats and cushions, the frequency of this phenomenon escaped me. Turns out, says Gestalt… Read more »
News came to me from a sailor friend, Charless Fowlkes, that Jensen’s Motorboat Anchor Jensen’s boatyard on the Seattle waterfront will be sold, possibly for a future restaurant. He and many… Read more »
The name Peter Winkert popped up rather unexpectedly in a press release from a subsidiary of QMP (Quality Machine Products) called High Strain Dynamics. Winkert was an early contributor to… Read more »
You know how it is said that the only two guarantees in life are death and taxes? Well, in Rovings, I’d amend that to death and newly minted hullforms. We… Read more »
Johan Ullman, an occasional PBB contributor and maker of shock-mitigating seats for high-performance recreational and military boats, recently brought to our attention the achievements of German boatbuilder SAY GmbH, which… Read more »
My fellow nutty historian from Great Britain, Charles Lawrence, has published British Offshore Powerboat Marathons, yet another compilation of powerboat races, beginning with the 1969 Round Britain and ending with the same… Read more »
