Professional BoatBuilder to resume publication

Professional BoatBuilder magazine will resume publication in 2025, with the details to be worked out. IBEX purchased ProBoat in November 2024 and Aaron Porter will continue as editor. More information at /A Letter From The Editor - Professional BoatBuilder Magazine https://www.proboat.com/2024/12/a-letter-from-the-editor/

 

Professional boatbuilder magazine is one of the few magazines along wooden boat magazine to publish good articles about boat design, however these magazines should focus on amateur boatyards (individual boat kit building has failed miserably and is a no-go zone) to revive sailing boats with wood, we have millions of tons of wood being thrown to landfills daily and we could detach from composite scam and create the foundations to build wooden sailboats with todays knowledge of fiber and sandwich construction

 

Re (1) publish good articles about boat design.
While not following DCockeys Title Subject and information, this thread does offer a place to introduce a concept that would help all boat builders. That being inexpensive
access to ABYC guidelines. Many of the questions posed by thread creators questions can be answered by reading their manual. Often contributors will cite these standards but access
is expensive. Rightly so as ABYC does not have income from advertisers (not suggesting that they should) The manual that I purchased maybe 15-20 years ago runs over 400 pages plus
supplements. I believe that I paid $300 -$400 for it and am not sure what the cost is now. It is 2 inches thick.
I would recommend to anyone building a boat to buy these standards.

RE (2)these magazines should focus on amateur boatyards
How would the publication pay its way? The advertisers in PB need to have their products exposed to as many companies as possible not just low volume niche customers.

 

That's muddy waters, if you check Panope amateur research on YouTube with anchors it doesn't come as surprise that ABYC and RYA are somehow poor and dangerous.

There's ISO, ANSI, ASME, etc standards and they usually remake standards with an increased safety factor given a material or different scenarios so 1990s standards are pretty obsolete and dangerous.


Besides theres Lloyds, solas, imo etc guidelines and on the other hand theres IOR, ORR, world sailing, etc recommendations besides offshore classes as mini transat, golden globe, vendee, etc and the recent class globe 5.8 which brings plenty of safety guidelines as watertight compartments while most of boat reinforcements came with the 79 fastnet damage report

There's a need of bringing recycled wood to the table, sharing new construction methods with boatyards ateliers and increase safety guidelines that are usually filled by corporate inventions, to make boatbuilding accessible and safe for communities of amateur boatbuilders

 

Hi Barry;

I believe ABYC membership gives you access to an online up-to-date version of ABYC Standards. Individual membership (I believe) is $250/yr; not cheap but reasonable value. I think it’s worth having access to up to date standards, so much has changed since I built boats years ago. If you wish to have a hard copy of the standards they can be purchased in the ABYC store.

Glad to hear that Proboat magazine is going to make a go of it again.

 

The magazine has been free for amateur boatbuilders that can read and download it online, they usually have little marvels of articles however it's a magazine with tons of advertising while sailing has to be demonetised just like rest of society as well.

If the likes of Panope and all amateur researchers would be able to edit ABYC guides, they could be free and more detailed and safe, people should be contributing with content rather than with tokens checks

 

Thank you for your opinion!

 

Why did you not start a new thread about this different topic?

 

Excellent magazine!