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 »
Rovings
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 »
Ray McLeod Jr: 1932–2018
Last February we lost Ray McLeod Jr., who told me many years ago while I was researching a history of fiberglass boatbuilding, that he joined his father’s modest boatbuilding and… Read more »
A Bénéteau with Foils
Followers of extreme sailing may know of Bénéteau’s several-year program to develop a production monohull with foils. Well, let’s qualify the term foils. The new 32‘ (9.75m) Figaro Bénéteau 3… Read more »
Remembering Ian Farrier
New Zealand multihull designer and builder Ian Lindsay Farrier, 70, died suddenly in San Francisco, California, on December 8, 2017, culminating a career that began in 1973 in Australia. While… Read more »
