12 Lessons from a Mid-Ocean Collision
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 »
In Good Company: Donald L. Blount – Professional BoatBuilder Issue 199, Oct/Nov 2022 — Donald Blount tribute
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James Wharram Remembrance
James Wharram, one of the last multihull pioneers from the postwar period, has embarked for the Great Perhaps. He died December 14, 2021, in Devoran, United Kingdom. The early seafaring… Read more »
SP80 Record Chasers
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 »
Northwest Rybovich Refit
A Rybovich in the Pacific Northwest, where the water rarely warms beyond 55°F (13°C), is not a common sight, but that’s about to change. The large workshop of Sea Marine,… Read more »
Greenboats Pioneers Flax Boatbuilding
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 »
An Aluminum Expedition Catamaran
Hauling toys beyond the horizon is the raison d’être for a rugged go-anywhere catamaran designed and built in the U.S., a notable exception in the world of big yacht projects…. Read more »
Mini 650 Rehab
Every two years a solo race across the Atlantic leaves from France and finishes in the Caribbean, with a stop in the Canary Islands along the way. It is known… Read more »
Eight Bells: Vic Porter
Victor Butler Porter of Decatur, Indiana, serial entrepreneur and chairman emeritus of Formula Boats, died October 24, 2021, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, at the age of 90. In an announcement,… Read more »
ABYC Awards Marine-Service-Technology Instructors
The American Boat & Yacht Council’s Foundation announced its picks for the 2021 Educators of the Year, an award that recognizes individuals who distinguished themselves as marine-service-technology instructors teaching in… Read more »
Notes on Sailing-Yacht Hullforms, Part 2
In “Notes on Sailing-Yacht Hullforms” (Professional BoatBuilder No. 196, page 32) naval architect Jay Paris, citing drawings and photographs of his own designs as well as the lines of other… Read more »
