METSTrade 2022 – Picks from an Exhibition
At Professional BoatBuilder we focus obsessively on the technical and practical details of our trade, so it’s no accident that during the busy autumn and winter parade of boat and… Read more »
Events
Bay Marine Reopens
After months of cleanup and restoration, boat dealer Bay Marine, with locations in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Florida, recently reopened its Waukegan, Illinois, storage facility, which was severely damaged in a… Read more »
Annual ABYC Meeting Roundup
At its annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January, the American Boat & Yacht Council (ABYC) welcomed new board members and celebrated award recipients. Simultaneously, experts from all fields… Read more »
Marine Leadership Alliance: What Upper Management is Thinking
Imagine a marine conference filled with boatbuilders and suppliers talking about business strategy, not boatbuilding, and no one trying to sell anything. Such is the ambiance over the past 15… Read more »
E1 Racing Series for Electric Foilers
Powerboat racing on foils and electricity is not new, as the annual Energy Boat Challenge in Monte Carlo has proven since 2014. But as the goal of getting the most… Read more »
HSBO 2021 Boat Report
Paul Lemmer, a United Kingdom writer and expert on rigid-inflatable boats (RIBs), went to Göteborg, Sweden, to attend last summer’s High-Speed Boat Operations Forum (HSBO), an invitation-only event for designers,… Read more »
The Return of Two International Conferences
Back from the COVID-induced hiatus are two international conferences. One of them is the High Speed Boat Operations Forum, which will be held August 31–September 2, 2021, in Gothenburg, Sweden…. Read more »
New Life for Old Shrink-Wrap
For about two decades now, boats tightly swaddled in #4 low-density polyethylene (LDPE) shrink-wrap have been a common sight in marinas and service yards around the world, especially in wet… Read more »
IHS Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Foiling is fun and very efficient way of moving boats at high speed with less fuel. Over the past few decades it has graduated from a niche application for military… Read more »
Rowing Across the Pacific
One of the more intriguing Design Briefs we’ve published is on the 28‘ (8.5m) rowboat designed by University of Michigan–educated naval architect Eric Sponberg (see “Ocean Rowboat,” PBB No. 161)…. Read more »
