Custom 43′ Coastal Commuter
With a new build project on the home stretch at Hylan & Brown, regular PBB contributor Reuel Parker submitted this brief about a new coastal commuter: In 1996 I designed… Read more »
Design
The Efficiency of a Foiling Powercat
Motivated by his own boating experience and America’s Cup foiling technology, a startup builder launches the Matanzas 29, a new breed of powercat for fishing and cruising. Wherever Jan Brandt… Read more »
Piotr Zin’s New Electric Runabout
Following the lead of European builders such as SAY Yachts (see “a = F/m,” PBB No.180) venturing into high-speed electric runabouts by combining advanced carbon construction with powerful motors and… Read more »
Butterfly 46: A Yacht for 2050
The winning entry from IBEX’s 2019 Design Challenge looks to a future of scant leisure time, responsible resource consumption, and increased systems connectivity. Close your eyes and think back…way back…. Read more »
Pakayak Bluefin: Portability in Six Parts
The Pakayak Bluefin is a 14‘ (4.3m) six-part nesting kayak made of rotomolded polyethylene with silicone gaskets and 300-psi clamps that its maker says can be assembled by anyone in… Read more »
Gunboat is Back
Actually, this builder of high-performance luxury cruising-catamaran sailing yachts has been back since 2016, the year Grand Large Yachts (parent of Allures, Garcia, and Outremer) bought the assets of… Read more »
One Good Zurn Deserves Another
So might say Bob Johnstone, who in 2002/2003 commissioned the first of five stylish MJM motoryachts from Marblehead, Massachusetts, designer Doug Zurn; so might singer/songwriter Billy Joel, who catapulted Zurn… Read more »
Take a Free Copy
As a designer and engineer, I use computer programs I’ve written for hydrodynamic research, performance prediction (sail and power), and hull design. My 14‘ (4.3m) sailing catamaran design was the… Read more »
Take 5 for Jim Kyle
The ambition of boatbuilder and designer Jim Kyle to correct deficiencies in Albert Hickman’s famed Sea Sled and in the process to develop a more perfect small powerboat hullform (see… Read more »
The writings of Tom Fexas
Autobiographies and biographies of yacht designers are entertaining and occasionally instructive. The recent publication of Dick Carter’s and Ron Holland’s self-written stories (Dick Carter—Yacht Designer in the Golden Age of… Read more »
