Ambiguous Ancestry
Born and raised in Nova Scotia but schooled in Britain, Commodore Fraser Fraser-Harris flew carrier-based fighter-bombers and fighter planes throughout the Second World War, and later captained surface combatants… Read more »
Design
Crash Course
Availability of cheaper, better accelerometers opens up the possibility of do-it-yourself impact-data collection for boat designers and builders. But how they collect those data depends on the sort of impacts… Read more »
Valerio Corniani on Wild Oats XI and other PechaKucha Highlights
Three years ago, the design and engineering team for the 100′ (30.5m) Wild Oats XI faced a fairly common problem: how to update an old boat. Except the boat wasn’t… Read more »
IBEX Preview: Why Boats Sink
Simply put, the failure to keep water outside the hull is the essential reason boats sink, but there’s more to it than that, as marine investigator Daniel K. Rutherford has… Read more »
IBEX Preview: ‘Question Everything’
Like anyone else, Rob Kaidy likes a good night’s sleep. Yet the moral issues that have cropped up over the years in the career he loves—that of a naval architect… Read more »
Solar-Powered One Design
When Marnix Hoekstra and his colleagues at Vripack compare the V20, a solar-powered wing-in-ground (WIG) hydrofoiler, to Formula 1 racers, it seems a bit of a contradiction. After all, how… Read more »
Testing Foils with Chainfalls and a Capsize
In the latest issue of Professional BoatBuilder (No. 156), you can turn to page 40 to read naval architect/engineer Doug Schickler’s story about Gunboat’s G4. The foiling catamaran’s original and… Read more »
A Race Between Breeze and Brawn
To win the Race to Alaska, a 750 mile “engineless race” that started on June 4, a boat should “sail well and row well, probably not extreme in either direction… Read more »
Fast Company—At a Clip
In the 1960s and ’70s, powerboat drivers worked closely with boatbuilders like Bertram and Cigarette to develop fast boats that won races. That meant the drivers often found out what… Read more »
“Chucked About” on a Class 40
Editor’s Note: Though Class 40s are better known in Europe, Brian Harris, general manager of Maine Yacht Center in Portland, has carved out a successful side business outfitting and refitting… Read more »
