The Standards for Seacocks
There’s a right way and a wrong way to go about any task. You really don’t want to choose the wrong way when installing a seacock. Think of it like… Read more »
Black Plastic Boats
Tideman Boats had to define material-appropriate scantlings and build protocols before starting production of its line of high-density-polyethylene workboats featured in Professional BoatBuilder Issue 179, June/July 2019
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Strapping It Down
Heavy batteries and fuel tanks are systems components that you definitely don’t want coming adrift and slamming around in a boat on a rough day. Yet their attachments often range… Read more »
Multimarine Composites: Not Your Usual Niche Market
We last looked in on Multimarine Composites in Professional BoatBuilder No. 119, page 10, to report on the United Kingdom builder’s recently launched 49′ (15m) multihull for a client who… Read more »
Gold Coast Yachts
Gold Coast Yachts partners Rich Difede and Roger Hatfield are veteran boatbuilders who’ve seen almost all the changes in techniques, materials, styles, budgets, and buyers in the modern multihull market…. Read more »
Risk of Engine Drowning
When the yard I managed became the dealer for a 30′ (9.1m) production powerboat, a colleague and I embarked on a passage from Chesapeake Bay to Bermuda to emphasize the… Read more »
Schooner M2 Rollover
The 58′ (17.7m) Nigel Irens–designed fusion schooner M2 in build at Covey Island Boatworks in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, was something to witness even in last summer’s stop-motion video of her… Read more »
Wave Power
Engineers wielding pumps, dams, and turbines have long pursued the potential of “free” energy harnessed from kinetic ocean forces, such as tides and waves. Indeed, France and Canada have built… Read more »
ABYC Standards Update
For those of you who have not read the new manual, I’ve summarized the major revisions, amendments, and additions below. This report is purely informative and is not to be… Read more »
Trend Spotting – Efficient, Wireless, Hybrid
A handful of recent product introductions confirm progressive trends in the industry. Efficient. Wireless. Hybrid. These terms are redefining industrial sectors—ranging from energy generation to consumer electronics and automobiles—that seem… Read more »
Sweating the Small Stuff
How many times while working around a boat shop or yard have you heard the phrases “Don’t sweat the small stuff”; “Keep the big picture in mind”; or “Don’t get… Read more »
