ABYC, Se Habla Español
Spanish-speaking applicants for the American Boat & Yacht Council’s Electrical Certification exam may now take it in their native language. The preparatory study guide is also available in Spanish. The… Read more »
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Yacht Design by Vripack
The Dutch naval architecture firm Vripack, perhaps the world’s largest private entity specializing in boat and yacht design, engineering, styling, and brokerage, recently published Yacht Design by Vripack, a large-format… Read more »
Gougeon Brothers Adds Bio-Based Resin System
The maker of WEST System and PRO-SET epoxy resins announced last January that it had acquired Entropy Resins of Hayward, California, a leader in bio-based renewable resins. Gougeon Brothers Inc…. Read more »
Energy 48 Power Cruiser
Noted in the last issue of PBB, in a Rovings item about Scully’s Boats in Morgan City, Louisiana, was the local economic predictor: “As oil goes, so goes Louisiana boatbuilding.”… Read more »
Unmanned GPS-Tracked Model Boat Program
Coming home to Belfast, Maine, 12 years ago, after another long offshore cruise, Dick Baldwin was tired, cold, wet and had had enough. In his late 50s, Baldwin decided to… Read more »
Voting for America’s Favorite Boat Brand
As a promotion, www.boattrader.com sponsored a competition in which viewers voted for their favorite brand of boat. (Of course, they were all powerboats.) Timed to coincide with the NCAA men’s… Read more »
Scully’s Aluminum Boats
As oil goes, so goes Louisiana boatbuilding. That’s the message I got loud and clear from visiting several yards along the Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Lafayette earlier this… Read more »
Donald Healey: Sports Cars and Sport Boats
In 1952, the Austin Healey 100 BN1 became an archetypal British roadster of the postwar era. A few years later, Donald Healey, who was also a keen water skier, dashed… Read more »
R2O at Viking
In the early days of composite boatbuilding before glass fibers, the pioneers experimented with natural reinforcement materials such as palm fronds and sisal. And once glass fibers were employed, builders… Read more »
The High End of High Speed
A six-year-old Dutch builder of large, high-speed, ax-bow motoryachts recently introduced its latest model, the VQ54 (16.5m). It joins the VQ32, VQ43 MK2, VQ48 and VQ48DC (9.8m, 13.1m, and 14.6m),… Read more »
