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 »
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 »
From Ray Hunt Design comes a timely answer to the growing menace of outboard motor noise.
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 »
Long, skinny boats dominated West Coast offshore racing decades ago. A new build in wood composite is out to prove the concept is still valid.
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 »
A Dutch yard adopts composite panel molding technology to build boats from preshaped wooden hull sections.
How computer-aided design and software-controlled manufacturing technologies have reshaped custom and semi-production boatbuilding.
Typically, military ships are designed and built for specific missions, not to curb their carbon footprint. However, if the Dutch navy serves as an example, that is about to change…. Read more »
Reid Bandy designs and builds a stripped-down superefficient carbon fiber sportfisherman.
