Setting Up a Mobile Shop
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 »
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Museo della Barca Lariana — A Fine Place for Old Boats
There are places in this world that seem to have been blessed by the gods, Italy’s Lake Como being one of them. With local roads resembling tortuous paths, boats were… Read more »
What Is, and Why Is There, a Circular Mil (CM)?
As you’re wiring or rewiring a boat, you’ll need to include wire diameters in the calculations necessary to determine compliance with ABYC and ISO standards. The AWG conductor-sizing system… Read more »
Derating Standards for Bundled Wires
In Professional BoatBuilder No. 195, contributing editor Nigel Calder’s “Amped Up” explores the effects of increasingly high-amperage onboard DC systems that exceed the capacities of standard marine-grade electrical cabling and… Read more »
Walt Walters, Mister Lucky
You know you’re getting old when today’s generation of hot-shot designers tell you they’ve never heard of someone you consider an American hall of famer. Case in point: I was… Read more »
New Heyman Pilothouse Cruiser
For many, the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced a latent desire to leave terra firma and its worries behind, which resulted in a boating boom and the introduction of some tempting new… Read more »
Farewell to Tom Johannsen
Last July, we were saddened to hear of the passing of Tom Johannsen at age 88, a trailblazer in the development of lightweight foam-cored composite laminates, and a true gentleman… Read more »
Ghost Mount
LilliPad Marine, a Michigan-based manufacturer of pontoon boat accessories, recently introduced Ghost Mount, one of several products the company makes and markets that have won design awards. It’s a fitting… Read more »
HSBO 2021 Boat Report
Paul Lemmer, a United Kingdom writer and expert on rigid-inflatable boats (RIBs), went to Göteborg, Sweden, to attend last summer’s High-Speed Boat Operations Forum (HSBO), an invitation-only event for designers,… Read more »
Electric Foiling Catamaran from Recycled Parts
Scavenging parts and gear, a boatbuilder in the San Juan Islands creates an electric foiling catamaran for his private milk run. Following our two-part story about fiberglass disposal—or the… Read more »
