
Rob Valdes, a Life in Boats
Not long ago I was speaking with Rob Valdes, service manager at Sailor’s Wharf boatyard in St. Petersburg, Florida, and asked if he was the same Rob Valdes who co-founded… Read more »
Not long ago I was speaking with Rob Valdes, service manager at Sailor’s Wharf boatyard in St. Petersburg, Florida, and asked if he was the same Rob Valdes who co-founded… Read more »
It was 36 years ago, in 1983, that multihull designer Chris White hung the proverbial designer’s shingle, Chris White Designs, outside his Massachusetts home. He now boasts more than 80… Read more »
It’s not a secret that the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding (NWSWB) in Port Hadlock, Wash., attracts students from far-flung places and diverse backgrounds who want to acquire skills that… Read more »
Craig Henderson, whose Bullfrog Boats of Bellingham, Washington, has sold more than 600 RIBs (rigid inflatable boats), calls conventional air-filled technology “deflatable” boats. “Poke a hole in it and gonzo,”… Read more »
Aside from company and product news, 178 Short Cuts also remembers Andrew Higgins, Raye Montague and Charles Everhart, three meritorious individuals of the boatbuilding and design trade who sailed for… Read more »
The article with the above title, written by PBB’s technical editor, Steve D’Antonio, in the October/November 2004 issue (No. 91), recounts with unfortunate-though-necessary brevity the incredible career of a modern-day… Read more »