Parting Shot: “Berthright”
As I recover from what seems like an endless boat show season, I have a question for boatbuilders and designers: What is it you don’t get about beds? You weren’t… Read more »
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Catching up with Chris White
It was 36 years ago, in 1983, that multihull designer Chris White hung the proverbial designer’s shingle, Chris White Designs, outside his Massachusetts home. He now boasts more than 80… Read more »
Bullfrog Boats are the “Undeflatables”
Craig Henderson, whose Bullfrog Boats of Bellingham, Washington, has sold more than 600 RIBs (rigid inflatable boats), calls conventional air-filled technology “deflatable” boats. “Poke a hole in it and gonzo,”… Read more »
Westlawn Students Chime In
In the December/January issue, No. 176, we invited Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology students past and present to share their experiences with and opinions about the 89-year-old distance-learning school specializing… Read more »
178 Short Cuts
Aside from company and product news, 178 Short Cuts also remembers Andrew Higgins, Raye Montague and Charles Everhart, three meritorious individuals of the boatbuilding and design trade who sailed for… Read more »
Hickman’s Imagination and the Dawn of Surface-Piercing Props
The most commonly recognized innovation of inventor and boat designer Albert Hickman is the inverted V hullform he patented and brought to market as the Sea Sled in the mid… Read more »
Unsinkable: The History of Boston Whaler
Paul Herzan, member of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum’s board of directors, has wide-ranging interests. The Smithsonian Institution’s website lists 53 objects he has been involved with, encompassing drawings, prints,… Read more »
The Patented Petestep Hullform
You know how it is said that the only two guarantees in life are death and taxes? Well, in Rovings, I’d amend that to death and newly minted hullforms. We… Read more »
Robotopia: Aluminum Boatbuilding with Welding Robots
Duisburg, Germany, an industrial city of roughly half a million in the most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, is at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It… Read more »
A Matter of Precision – Variable Deadrise and Longitudinal Steps
Norson Design’s development of several customizable 7m–12m (23‘–39.4‘) LOA RIBs for Ophardt Maritim, intended for professional users, required a three-way balance between high speed, good seakeeping, and comfortable running. At… Read more »
