An Iowa couple reviews the first 3,000 nautical miles on Electric Philosophy, their custom built solar-electric catamaran, and their preparations for an off-grid adventure cruise to high latitudes. We commissioned… Read more »
A 2017 story in the United Kingdom daily The Guardian titled “Carbon fiber: The wonder material with a dirty secret” explains the blessings of this increasingly popular structural material for… Read more »
Don’t call his number again. Eddie Lane is “out of the office” for good. Charles Edward “Eddie” Lane, of Lexington, North Carolina, passed away on Monday, November 7, 2022, at… Read more »
Matt Steverson and Janni Petersen, experienced cruisers in their mid-30s, are restoring Mike Plant’s first Open 60, Duracell, in Port Townsend, Washington. They document their doings on their own YouTube… Read more »
After a decades-long career in the field, I’ve come to define multihull naval architecture as: the use of predominantly lightweight composite materials whose properties can be accurately determined only through… Read more »
Mark and Isabel Hardesty have lived aboard their Seawind 1160, JollyDogs, since 2014 and logged more than 26,000 ocean miles, visiting places in Mexico, French Polynesia, and Hawaii, from where… Read more »
It’s refreshing just looking at the team photo with more than three-dozen students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne taking a break from their ambitious high-tech… Read more »
Having blazed the trail for flax composites for a dozen years, Greenboats in Bremen, Germany, now leads a boat-building trend that is gathering momentum. As the warming global climate yields… Read more »
Some good news about doing business with Europe made headlines in late October: The U.S. and the European Union reached an agreement on a trade dispute that had vexed U.S…. Read more »
Here’s how two experienced repair and refit technicians improved efficiency and stopped paying rent by switching from brick-and-mortar to a mobile shop. My partner Pete Grundvig and I have had… Read more »
