SP80 Record Chasers
It’s refreshing just looking at the team photo with more than three-dozen students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne taking a break from their ambitious high-tech… Read more »
Design
An Aluminum Expedition Catamaran
Hauling toys beyond the horizon is the raison d’être for a rugged go-anywhere catamaran designed and built in the U.S., a notable exception in the world of big yacht projects…. Read more »
Notes on Sailing-Yacht Hullforms, Part 2
In “Notes on Sailing-Yacht Hullforms” (Professional BoatBuilder No. 196, page 32) naval architect Jay Paris, citing drawings and photographs of his own designs as well as the lines of other… Read more »
Newport Yacht Builders Streamline Production
A group of boatbuilding and refit specialists in Newport, Rhode Island, who had been collaborating successfully for several years, recently hung out a new shingle as Newport Yacht Builders (NYB)…. Read more »
Setting Up a Mobile Shop
Here’s how two experienced repair and refit technicians improved efficiency and stopped paying rent by switching from brick-and-mortar to a mobile shop. My partner Pete Grundvig and I have had… Read more »
Museo della Barca Lariana — A Fine Place for Old Boats
There are places in this world that seem to have been blessed by the gods, Italy’s Lake Como being one of them. With local roads resembling tortuous paths, boats were… Read more »
New Heyman Pilothouse Cruiser
For many, the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced a latent desire to leave terra firma and its worries behind, which resulted in a boating boom and the introduction of some tempting new… Read more »
Electric Foiling Catamaran from Recycled Parts
Scavenging parts and gear, a boatbuilder in the San Juan Islands creates an electric foiling catamaran for his private milk run. Following our two-part story about fiberglass disposal—or the… Read more »
“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 »
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 »
