Oyster Marine is Bought and Sold
Last March, British entrepreneur Richard Hadida, 52, bought beleaguered Oyster Marine, which had been in administration only since February, a result of the Oyster 825 Polina Star III sinking off… Read more »
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Survivor III: Mark Bruckmann
Editor’s Note: The following article first appeared in Professional BoatBuilder issue No. 139. It is one of a series we’ve published since the Great Recession of 2008, profiling boat builders who… Read more »
Survivor II: James Betts
Editor’s Note: The following article first appeared in Professional BoatBuilder issue No. 129. It is one of a series we’ve published since the Great Recession of 2008, profiling boat builders who… Read more »
Survivor I: Dennis Choate
Editor’s Note: The following article first appeared in Professional BoatBuilder issue No. 126. It is one of a series we’ve published since the Great Recession of 2008, profiling boat builders who… Read more »
Dead Boats: Headache or Opportunity?
There are no mandatory regulations for disposing of recreational boats in Europe. But there probably will be in the next couple years, according to an ICOMIA (International Council of Marine… Read more »
U.K.’s Multimarine Approaches 30
Economic cycles, as those of us in the business know all too well, are particularly tough on boatbuilders. Periodic recessions and fuel crises take a deadly toll. Many businesses fell… Read more »
IBEX Preview: Training Days
During this year’s IBEX seminar series, speakers will share how they developed shop-floor training and apprenticeship programs to fill the skills gap. In major cities around the country, training centers… Read more »
Growth Through Diversity
The enterprising and innovative forays of boatbuilders and yacht designers beyond the marine sector have been well documented through the years: Nathanael Herreshoff made steam engines; W. Starling Burgess created… Read more »
Pedrazzini at 101
from “Rovings,” Professional BoatBuilder No. 155 Compiled by Dan Spurr In 1906, Augusto Pedrazzini, age 22, left his Lake Como home to try his luck working for the boatyards on Lake Zurich,… Read more »
A Better Breakwater
Reading Paul Lazarus’s feature about the Maine Yacht Center and Brian Harris (“Some Assembly Required” in Professional BoatBuilder No. 155) reminded me of an interesting story Brian told me when… Read more »
