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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The article on titanium in the August/September 2011 issue of Professional BoatBuilder (No. 132) discusses, in a sidebar, the 42′/12.8m Titan Lady—a sailing cruiser custom built entirely of titanium, including… Read more »
In the Design Brief in Professional BoatBuilder No. 131, Albert Nazarov of Albatross Marine Design in Thailand discusses the concepts that went into designing and constructing a pair of relatively… Read more »
Technical Seminars at IBEX and the Professional BoatBuilder Stories They Spawned Since the first IBEX (International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition) was created as an offshoot of Professional BoatBuilder magazine in 1990, technical… Read more »
As we report in Professional BoatBuilder No. 126, Danish builder Luffe Yachts has made the change from open- to closed-molding—a changeover completed with help from its resin-and-reinforcements supplier, Bodotex Composites,… Read more »
