Loosen Up: A New T-boat for Fishing Charters on Chesapeake Bay
Frank Carver’s new 51′ charter boat Loosen Up was designed by DLBA and built by Weaver Boatworks in Deale, Maryland.
Lights in the Darkness: Navigation lights, the best protection against nighttime collisions, are worth getting right
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Keeping it Upright: Notes on Vessel Stability
Graphics by Patrick Bray Editor’s Note: Stability considerations are at the core of designing and building buoyant seagoing vessels. Yet with centuries of naval architecture and boatbuilding experience behind us,… Read more »
At the Intersection of Electric, Aluminum, and Oysters
Fogg’s Boatworks embraces the latest in electric propulsion as it delivers practical metal hulls for work and pleasure. Anyone who has ever used a backing-out plane or an oyster knife… Read more »
Vanishingly Rare: Augusto ‘Kiko’ Villalon, 1931-2025
The best journalistic source is one who knows full clear details of the story you are reporting. Ideally, they’ve been around from before the full arc of the narrative commences,… Read more »
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
It’s rare to find a truly new approach to a problem that’s plagued seafarers for millennia, but Finsulate film wrap offers such a fix for marine fouling. Life abounds in… Read more »
Corrosion Evasion, Part 2: Corrosion Risks in Stainless Steel and Aluminum
We continue our primer on corrosion vulnerabilities of common marine metals from Part 1: Preventing Galvanic, Stray-Current Corrosion in Professional BoatBuilder No. 212. Stainless Steel Since its accidental discovery nearly… Read more »
Corrosion Evasion, Part 1: Preventing Galvanic, Stray-Current Corrosion
There’s a conversation I find myself having on too many occasions that goes something like this: Jim: “Hey Steve, I’m interested in purchasing/building this vessel. It’s XX feet, does XX… Read more »
New Masts for Reef Chief
Text and photographs by Reuel Parker Allen Cody Taube sailed his wooden Block Island Cowhorn Island Belle from California to Florida nearly 50 years ago. Landing in Key West, he… Read more »
Cast Away: Irons Bros. Tradition of Supplying Metal Keels to Boatbuilders Globally
The 77m (252.6′) superyacht M5 (ex-Mirabella V) has several claims to fame. When launched in 2003, she was the biggest single-masted sailing yacht in the world, and her 291′ 11″… Read more »
Farewell to Delta Marine’s Ivor Jones
Fiberglass boatbuilding started small with dinghies, skiffs, and runabouts—low stakes structures that early adopters could experiment on as they pushed the structural limitations of the new material. Big boats were… Read more »
