Rescue and recovery catamaran
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 »
Design
MDT’s Vector 40
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 »
Soft-Wing Sport Boat
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 »
Scantling Software Online
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 »
Vendée Evolution: Read the New Rules
In the latest issue of Professional BoatBuilder, No. 162, we turned to yacht designer Merfyn Owen for an analysis of new International Monohull Open Class Association (IMOCA) rules for the… Read more »
IBEX Opens Registration, Announces Seminars
Online registration is open for the 26th International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition and Conference (IBEX), which will be held October 4-6 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. Show organizers have… Read more »
Brain Candy for Naval Architects
Designers take note: It’s time to register for the Fifth Chesapeake Powerboat Symposium, which will be held June 14-15 at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. Produced by the Society of… Read more »
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 »
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 »
