Until recently the pursuit of sustainability has set any boatbuilders who subscribe to it on a rough and somewhat lonely path. Since the dawn of series-built composite boat production in… Read more »
Recycling end-of-life composite boats or the production waste from composite boat building has been a subject of interest at IBEX and Professional BoatBuilder during the past decade. As with many… Read more »
A flawless laid teak deck has long defined the aspirational expectations for yacht owners, but scarcity of the hard, rot-resistant tropical wood and shifts in aesthetic sensibilities and a market… Read more »
Recyclable thermoplastic resin and a crew of trainees are put to the test building a commercial fishing boat at DJ Marine in Pointe-Sapin, New Brunswick.
Designing, engineering, and building sailing yachts 90′ (27.4m) or more in length once was common in the U.S. It’s happening again at Rockport Marine in Maine: Project Ouzel, a 95′… Read more »
“We had no inkling of creating a business or anything. It was just a total fluke.” Dan Kaseler still chuckles when he relates the story that led him to start… Read more »
As renowned wooden boat designer and builder Sam Devlin transitions into the calmer waters of his career, he’s handing the reins of Devlin Designing Boatbuilders to his son McKenzie and… Read more »
Long, skinny boats dominated West Coast offshore racing decades ago. A new build in wood composite is out to prove the concept is still valid.
A Dutch yard adopts composite panel molding technology to build boats from preshaped wooden hull sections.
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) Technical and Research Program, in cooperation with the Hampton Roads, Virginia Section of SNAME, will host the Sixth Annual Powerboat Symposium… Read more »
