Chris Rickborn doesn’t claim that his father invented the flying bridge, but he offers plenty of evidence that Commodore Harold C. Rickborn popularized it, beginning in the 1960s, when he… Read more »
The father-and-son design team of Steve and Dave Clark develops the UFO, a stable, affordable, production-built foiling beach catamaran. It’s June 2015. I’m chatting on the phone with my tugboat… Read more »
Chasing UFOs: A brief film about the UFO foiler Video by Billy Black When Dave and Steve Clark started designing the UFO (Unidentified Foiling Object) their intention was to make foiling technology… Read more »
The decisions that go into the design of a stepped hull are similar to the tradeoffs designers face with any other boat-design—every time you make one thing better, you compromise… Read more »
It’d be easy to assume that failure is not an option for Mark Richards. Profiled in Professional BoatBuilder No. 165 (February/March 2017), Richards has become famous in his native Australia… Read more »
Sailors will remember Ian Bruce as the “Father of the Laser.” The 13.8‘ (4.2m) cartopper ranks as one of the world’s most popular boats. Born in Jamaica and educated in… Read more »
SPJ Yachts in Queensland, Australia, designs and builds custom catamarans. Its most recent project is a 20‘ (6m) power catamaran for rescue and recovery. Developers plan to configure the design… Read more »
Last May, while on location near Stockholm, Sweden, preparing a profile of Hamnvägen-based Mannerfelt Design Team for Professional BoatBuilder magazine (see the cover story of PBB No. 163, Oct/Nov 2016),… Read more »
The men from Down Under—brothers Greg and Patrick Johnston—who described their revolutionary “soft” sail system in Professional BoatBuilder No. 140 (“Working-Class Wing”), and in more detail on our website ProBoat.com… Read more »
Relatively new to the growing group of scantling software is YACHTScant, from the U.K.-based company CompoSIDE, which promises that its array of design and data-management tools can deliver “up to… Read more »
