PechaKucha At IBEX 2011
Among other firsts introduced at IBEX 2011 was Professional BoatBuilder magazine’s Design X PechaKucha for boat designers. What’s that? you ask. PechaKucha is a rigid, allegedly Japanese presentation format that… Read more »
Design
Building Foil-Shaped Centerboards
Traditional centerboards, with few exceptions, are pie-shaped (triangular), and pivot from their forward lower corner. They typically have little or no foil shape. As long as they are located such… Read more »
Design Challenge III Winners
Winners of Professional BoatBuilder’s “Design Challenge III: A Fast Expedition Sailboat” are featured in the Design Brief in No. 133, the IBEX issue of the magazine, scheduled for print and… Read more »
A Real Showstopper
Like them or not, boat shows are a fact of life for professional boatbuilders. Deep as we may now be into the digital era, no virtual presentation on a computer… Read more »
IBEX Seminars as Articles
Technical Seminars at IBEX and the Professional BoatBuilder Stories They Spawned Since the first IBEX (International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition) was created as an offshoot of Professional BoatBuilder magazine in 1990, technical… Read more »
Design Challenge III
Submissions closed, judging is underway. A Fast Expedition Sailboat Inspired in part by the worldwide popularity of raid-type events—multi-day racing and cruising expeditions sailed in small boats—we challenge you… Read more »
Predicting Bad Behavior
Consider the following cases: A 28′ (8.5m) lobsterboat, repowered for a race, turned turtle at high speed. A 23′ (7m) tournament-style bassboat would chine-walk violently at high speed. A 30′… Read more »
Design Challenge II Winners
Professional BoatBuilder and WoodenBoat magazines’ second design challenge drew 58 excellent submissions from professional and amateur designers in 17 countries. Our panel of judges had the pleasure of studying all… Read more »
Design Challengers
This scorching first week of July, we at Professional BoatBuilder were lucky to have some business to attend to on the water. Two boats built to designs from our 2009… Read more »
Daggerboard Debate
In March Professional BoatBuilder editor-at-large Dan Spurr visited with Pete Melvin, of Morrelli & Melvin Design & Engineering, in Huntington Beach, California. Melvin is an aerospace engineer by training and… Read more »
