Printing Small Parts
In Port Townsend, Washington, Brandon Davis, with his company Turn Point Design, has carved out a niche for boat design, composite tooling, precision machining, and prototyping all kinds of things… 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
Recent Posts
Sailing to the North Pole
The number of records for exploring our water-covered planet is limited only by one’s wild imagination…first to sail solo nonstop around the world, first to do the deed the “wrong… Read more »
The Rambler, a 38′ Aluminum Center-Console
A start-up boat company based in Newport, Rhode Island, aims to compete with the growing number of luxury sport boats in the 35‘–65‘ (10.7m–19.8m) range. As examples of this genre,… Read more »
ABYC, Se Habla Español
Spanish-speaking applicants for the American Boat & Yacht Council’s Electrical Certification exam may now take it in their native language. The preparatory study guide is also available in Spanish. The… Read more »
Yacht Design by Vripack
The Dutch naval architecture firm Vripack, perhaps the world’s largest private entity specializing in boat and yacht design, engineering, styling, and brokerage, recently published Yacht Design by Vripack, a large-format… Read more »
Gougeon Brothers Adds Bio-Based Resin System
The maker of WEST System and PRO-SET epoxy resins announced last January that it had acquired Entropy Resins of Hayward, California, a leader in bio-based renewable resins. Gougeon Brothers Inc…. Read more »
Energy 48 Power Cruiser
Noted in the last issue of PBB, in a Rovings item about Scully’s Boats in Morgan City, Louisiana, was the local economic predictor: “As oil goes, so goes Louisiana boatbuilding.”… Read more »
The Rudimentaries of Rudders
Like other systems and gear aboard cruising and commercial vessels, rudders have terms to identify their parts and functions. When measuring a rudder, the span and chord are the vertical… Read more »
Unmanned GPS-Tracked Model Boat Program
Coming home to Belfast, Maine, 12 years ago, after another long offshore cruise, Dick Baldwin was tired, cold, wet and had had enough. In his late 50s, Baldwin decided to… Read more »
Voting for America’s Favorite Boat Brand
As a promotion, www.boattrader.com sponsored a competition in which viewers voted for their favorite brand of boat. (Of course, they were all powerboats.) Timed to coincide with the NCAA men’s… Read more »
