“Green” Methanol for Ocean Research
A new ocean research vessel will run on “green” methanol (meaning CO2-neutral), replacing the 30m (98.4‘) research cutter Uthörn, launched in 1982. The keel for the new 35m (114.8‘) vessel… Read more »
Design
The Hunt for Hydrogen
Hydrogen is heralded as the next fuel in the energy transition, but as boatbuilders gear up to bring the new high-pressure gas on board, availability, economy, and the true ecological… Read more »
Expedited Delivery: The Longtail 30
As manufacturers and dealers in booming outdoor industries fret over delays, shortages, and even production shutdowns caused by COVID-19 and tariff-related disruptions in the just-in-time supply chain, some boatbuilding businesses… Read more »
CFD for Powerboat Design, Part 2
CFD analysis of hull aerodynamics holds the potential to answer many performance questions, including the cause of an infamous side-by-side blow-over of identical high-performance catamarans during competition in Key West… Read more »
CFD For Powerboat Design, Part 1
In its earliest days, composite boatbuilding was open to most anyone who could cut fiberglass fabric and spread resin. By and large, builders learned the trade in a repair shop… Read more »
Arion Celebrates Her 70th Anniversary
She’s a slender double-ended ketch that kissed the water for the first time on May 15, 1951. Drawn by A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff, Arion measures 42‘ (12.8m) overall and… Read more »
Hanse Opens Baltic Design Institute
HanseYachts AG, one of the world’s big manufacturers of recreational craft, located in Greifswald, Germany, with additional factories in Poland and France, and its Polish subsidiary, Technologie Tworzyw Sztucznych… Read more »
George Hazen 1951–2020
George Hazen, whose work revolutionized yachting as a pastime, a sport, and an industry, died from cancer on December 23, 2020, in Annapolis, Maryland. He was 69. Many boat owners… Read more »
Baltic 68 Café Racer
If this Finnish builder of luxury yachts is any indication, composites made with natural fibers are inching closer to mainstream boatbuilding applications. Later this year, Baltic Yachts, operating 280 miles… Read more »
SAY 42 Carbon Runabout
Recently word reached us from SAY Carbon Yachts, the German builder of sleek lightweight runabouts, about the delivery of the first new SAY 42 (12.96m). Company CEO Karl Wagner—who in… Read more »
