Daggerboard Debate
In March Professional BoatBuilder editor-at-large Dan Spurr visited with Pete Melvin, of Morrelli & Melvin Design & Engineering, in Huntington Beach, California. Melvin is an aerospace engineer by training and… Read more »
Know When (and How) to Fold ’Em – Professional BoatBuilder Issue 201, Feb/Mar 2023 — Folding multihulls
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Laminated Replacement Ribs Installed Before Cure
Despite their pedigree and connoisseur value, former presidential yachts still fall into disrepair. When they do, there are yards like Moores Marine (Riviera Beach, Florida and Beaufort, North Carolina) with… Read more »
Rondal Spars
Everything about the Royal Huisman yard and attached Rondal fabrication shops in Vollenhove, The Netherlands, is clean and professional. And big. When a carload of Professional BoatBuilder staff landed there… Read more »
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 »
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 »
