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 »
Materials
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 »
An All-Titanium Yacht
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 »
Three New Aluminum Boats
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 »
IBEX Seminars as Articles
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 »
The Switch to Closed Molding
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 »
Temperature-Controlled Molding
The combination of temperature-controlled infusion tables and a controlled radical polymerization additive for vinyl ester resin makes the infusion of thick laminate stacks in one shot—a relatively worry-free process. These… Read more »
Gougeon Book, The Fifth Edition
Meade Gougeon may have been the prime mover behind, and principal author of, The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction: Wood and WEST System Materials, but it wasn’t until the book’s… Read more »
Rondal Spars
Everything about the Royal Huisman yard and attached Rondal fabrication shops in Vollenhove, The Netherlands, is clean and professional. And big. When a carload of Professional BoatBuilder staff landed there… Read more »
