Rockler Plywood Challenge
Chris Salomone, Ben Uyeda, and Mike Montgomery like to make things—anything. They like to think outside the box and encourage others to do so. Salomone describes himself as a “husband,… Read more »
Design
Beneteau’s Airstep Hullform
The old saying that there’s nothing new under the sun certainly has variants. Tracing a succession of patents on stepped powerboat hullforms, proves it. Professional BoatBuilder has covered this topic… Read more »
Eight Bells: John Letcher
John S. Letcher Jr. died at age 76 in Bangor, Maine. (Although he had a PhD in aerodynamics from the California Institute of Technology, he seldom seemed to invoke that… Read more »
New Boat, New Record by Fabio Buzzi
Last we visited with famed Italian powerboat designer, builder, and racer Fabio Buzzi was in 2016, when we published a Design Brief of his SAR 60 (18.3m), developed to help… Read more »
Foiling Part 2: From Niche to Market
When we started to discuss a story about foiling powerboats, we’d heard about scattered projects that were developing boats of this kind, consulting with designers who had become household names… Read more »
Inventing the Adaptive Stand-Up Paddleboard (ASUP)
This article is a companion piece to, and continuation of the research into, morphing hulls the author and aerospace engineer Charles Palamé introduced in the print edition of Professional BoatBuilder… Read more »
Reverso Air: Stackable, packable, sailable
Just when we thought all prayers for a chic and functional nesting dinghy were answered with the kit of the adorable PT 11 by Port Townsend Watercraft , here come… Read more »
Hydrofoils: Past and Renaissance
In Part 1 of our foiling story in Professional Boatbuilder No. 172 we take a look a the history of this technology, from the pioneers in the early days of… 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 »
A Study in British Luxury Afloat
The British design studio Claydon Reeves (a partnership founded in 2010 by James Claydon and Mike Reeves) had a busy 2017, announcing the launching of several elite projects. Among them… Read more »
