Professional BoatBuilder - February-March 2018

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very busy autumn boat-show sea-

son is an opportunity to see new

designs, models, ideas, and hardware

from the boatbuilding industry.

Some times those new approaches are

e ective and attractive, while other

innovations and details are less than

stellar. As I wander the marinas and

docks looking closely at the o erings,

I o en  nd myself wondering, “Why

didn’t I think of that?” or, “Why the

heck did they do that?” I see bad old

ideas rear their ugly heads, reinvented

and repeated. I also see old and persis-

tent problems intelligently resolved,

or simple, high-quality instances of

good standard boatbuilding prac-

tices. Every set of eyes that looks over

a boat at a boat show belongs to a

potential customer. For that reason

alone, what’s on display should be of

the best quality.

Lets take a look at what builders had

on the docks in 2017.

Boat Show and Tell

ANNE BRYANT

Fall boat shows and crowded docks yield a wealth of

instructive examples of what boatbuilders

do well...and not so well.

Text and photographs

by Bruce Pfund

(except where noted)

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