Boat Disposal Plan Progresses
Last year PBB investigated several potential solutions to reduce waste from composite boatbuilding and to dispose of the pile of unwanted used composite boats. Those included developments in carbon fiber… Read more »
Materials
Epoxyworks Archives Online
Gougeon Brothers, makers of WEST System and PRO-SET epoxy resins and related products such as fillers and disposables, recently announced that its Epoxyworks newsletter now has 500 articles online at… Read more »
Carbon Fiber Tubes
During a visit with Russell Brown last summer at his shop in Port Townsend, Washington, we caught up on changes he has made to his 18‘ 5“ (5.6m) PT Skiff and… Read more »
Thoughts on “Recycling Dead Boats”
Seventeen years ago, I wrote an article for Professional Boatbuilder magazine called “Recycling Dead Boats” (issue #60, August/September 1999, available online here). It summarized a seminar about boat recycling I organized… Read more »
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 »
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 »
