Recycling Dead Boats
Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Professional BoatBuilder August/Sept 1999, issue No. 60. Read a new introduction by Eric Sponberg here. For more about recycling boats, also see “Boat… Read more »
Materials
Engineered Ebony Veneer
Oakwood Veneer Company, a Michigan-based supplier of veneers and related products, recently announced a new Italian Macassar ebony design. Oakwood Veneer’s David Rodgers notes that so-called engineered veneers—made by slicing… 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 »
Du Plessis Book, the Fifth Edition
Previously on Proboat.com we posted an article of mine about the 5th edition of The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction—widely considered the definitive manual on wood-epoxy composite construction. Among other… Read more »
Eric Greene on Laminate Testing
Given the complexity of modern boat construction, particularly in composites, the number of potential technical topics to cover in Professional BoatBuilder is, if not inexhaustible, then certainly enormous. One testament… Read more »
Material Differences
Although the two booms looked the same, they were not. The first clue that they might be different was their location. Fitted up side by side across a broad wooden… Read more »
Why Not Wet-Preg?
In his article about Boston BoatWorks (“The Builder Under the Bridge,” Professional BoatBuilder No. 157), Paul Lazarus writes that he is surprised that more production boatbuilders haven’t also adopted pre-impregnated… Read more »
Boatbuilding, Then and Now
In 2015, IBEX, founded by Professional BoatBuilder magazine, marks its 25th show on September 15-17 in Louisville, Kentucky. Longtime Professional BoatBuilder editors Paul Lazarus and Dan Spurr weigh in on the… Read more »
Keeping Paint on Aluminum
Early in my career I worked for a dealership that sold production boats, every one of which was equipped with painted aluminum arches. Invariably, the paint would blister, in some… Read more »
A Lesson in Tolerance (and Other Tips for Joining Plywood)
In his Design Brief in Professional BoatBuilder No. 152, yacht designer Dudley Dix writes about the Didi 950 (9.5m/31′2″), the plywood raceboat he designed to meet Class 950 rules. It… Read more »
