Scavenging parts and gear, a boatbuilder in the San Juan Islands creates an electric foiling catamaran for his private milk run. Following our two-part story about fiberglass disposal—or the… Read more »
A new ocean research vessel will run on “green” methanol (meaning CO2-neutral), replacing the 30m (98.4‘) research cutter Uthörn, launched in 1982. The keel for the new 35m (114.8‘) vessel… Read more »
Hydrogen is heralded as the next fuel in the energy transition, but as boatbuilders gear up to bring the new high-pressure gas on board, availability, economy, and the true ecological… Read more »
As manufacturers and dealers in booming outdoor industries fret over delays, shortages, and even production shutdowns caused by COVID-19 and tariff-related disruptions in the just-in-time supply chain, some boatbuilding businesses… Read more »
CFD analysis of hull aerodynamics holds the potential to answer many performance questions, including the cause of an infamous side-by-side blow-over of identical high-performance catamarans during competition in Key West… Read more »
In its earliest days, composite boatbuilding was open to most anyone who could cut fiberglass fabric and spread resin. By and large, builders learned the trade in a repair shop… Read more »
She’s a slender double-ended ketch that kissed the water for the first time on May 15, 1951. Drawn by A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff, Arion measures 42‘ (12.8m) overall and… Read more »
HanseYachts AG, one of the world’s big manufacturers of recreational craft, located in Greifswald, Germany, with additional factories in Poland and France, and its Polish subsidiary, Technologie Tworzyw Sztucznych… Read more »
George Hazen, whose work revolutionized yachting as a pastime, a sport, and an industry, died from cancer on December 23, 2020, in Annapolis, Maryland. He was 69. Many boat owners… Read more »
If this Finnish builder of luxury yachts is any indication, composites made with natural fibers are inching closer to mainstream boatbuilding applications. Later this year, Baltic Yachts, operating 280 miles… Read more »
