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 »
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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 »
Have Crew—Will Travel
from “Rovings,” Professional BoatBuilder No. 153 Compiled by Dan Spurr The practice is probably as old as the goatskin currach, but assembling a portable boatbuilding crew that travels to a… Read more »
How to Go From 0 to 60
The 100′ (30.5m) Comanche was designed to be the fastest monohull in the world—and her build was speedy too. For the past year, Hodgdon Yachts in East Boothbay, Maine,… Read more »
All I Need to Know About Running a Boatshop I Learned in a Band
Editor’s Note: While some people are lucky to have one great passion, John Harris has two: boatbuilding and music. The owner of Chesapeake Light Craft, the Maryland company featured in… Read more »
Going Up
Building the buildings at Front Street Shipyard. If there were a contest to determine what commercial builder in this country could erect the most infrastructure for a major boatyard in… Read more »
