Batteries Not Needed?
A Swiss firm, Silicon Fire AG, is making some bold claims about replacing batteries, and conventional fuel, with hydrogen-methanol on board boats. “Electricity can be stored at any time in… Read more »
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Professional BoatBuilder Issue 180, Aug/Sep 2019 — German yacht company SAY aims to concour the high-end runabout market
Recent Posts
A Real Showstopper
Like them or not, boat shows are a fact of life for professional boatbuilders. Deep as we may now be into the digital era, no virtual presentation on a computer… Read more »
Three New Aluminum Boats
In the Design Brief in Professional BoatBuilder No. 131, Albert Nazarov of Albatross Marine Design in Thailand discusses the concepts that went into designing and constructing a pair of relatively… Read more »
A Fix for Waterjet Fouling
March 1965. Forty-six years ago. That’s when Jack Hargrave came up with the then-unorthodox idea of combining supercharged diesels with waterjet pumps, along with a special steering system, and installing… Read more »
IBEX Seminars as Articles
Technical Seminars at IBEX and the Professional BoatBuilder Stories They Spawned Since the first IBEX (International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition) was created as an offshoot of Professional BoatBuilder magazine in 1990, technical… Read more »
Magic Repairs
Late last December, 13 years after I designed and built the prototype Commuter 36 (11m) Magic, her owner, Erik DeBoer, brought the boat back to me at Parker Marine, in… Read more »
Generators Done Right
The change is noticeable. Just 15 or 20 years ago, generator-equipped boats under 40′ (12.2m) were a rarity. Today, gensets are available in diminutive sizes, making installation possible in locations… Read more »
Rowable Classics: A Collection and Its Book
Boating, of course, manifests itself in myriad forms (power, sail, oar, paddle) and sizes (skiffs, superyachts), in a wide range of environments (ponds, open ocean). Whether deliberately or inadvertently, many… Read more »
Huckins Motoryacht With a Pod Drive
In Professional BoatBuilder No. 129, contributing writer Eric Sorensen reports on the repowering of a 1954-vintage Huckins Fairform Flyer by a crew at Yachting Solutions in Rockport, Maine. Noteworthy is… Read more »
Cutting a St. Ayles Skiff
For anyone who has spiled and cut planks from rough lumber or plywood stock, seeing a computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine make short and precise work of the task is humbling. A… Read more »
