All articles by Bob Greenwood – Page 3
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Propulsion | Sealine and Zeus: Zeus drive for Sealine
The first European series-built boat specifically designed for Zeus pod drive propulsion is now in full production at UK builder Sealine. bob greenwood visits the company’s plant at Kidderminster to look at the development and production engineering behind this ground-breaking SC47 sports convertible cruiser.
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Composites | High Modulus: High Modulus at 30
New Zealand-based composite manufacturer High Modulus has been a major influence on boatbuilding engineering for 30 years. bob greenwood looks at how it has influenced the market and asks its CEO — Richard Downs-Honey — how builders should meet the challenges that lie ahead in these uncertain times.
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Marketplace | Marine lighting: Bright ideas
LEDs have been the most significant technical development in lighting in recent years but while light emitting diode technology has multiplied the range of lighting options available to boatbuilders, not everyone sees it as the only shining path
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World news focus | Suzuki outboards: Suzuki outboards start new cycle
While its sales of outboards continue to climb amid growing concern about falling boating markets, Suzuki has gone full circle in its product development programme by launching replacements for the first of its present generation of four-stroke models. These new 70hp-90hp units are lighter, smaller, quicker, leaner and more refined ...
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Backlog | Alexis Lepoutre: Sub-out your worries
When recession bites it makes economic sense for companies to use subcontracting services, argues Alexis Lepoutre, managing director of French fitted boat furniture producer Navi Line. He believes good relationships with subcontractors allow builders to concentrate resources on marketing and developing their brands.
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Sunreef yachts | Pioneering Pole cats
In the historic shipyards of Gdansk a French-owned boatbuilder has struck gold by pioneering a new, and as-yet sparsely populated, market niche for cruising flybridge catamarans over 18m (60ft).
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Application News | Garmin installation: Black boxes blackballed
With a full suite of marine instruments operated on ‘intelligent’ touch-screen displays, Garmin is now offering easy-to-fit and fully-featured navigation systems that promise to save installation time.
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Propulsion | Mochi hybrid: Silent running
Ferretti’s new Mochi Long Range 23 expedition yacht makes hybrid drive a reality for production boats.
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BUSINESS REPORT | RCD 10 years on: Good progress, but could do better
A burdensome extra layer of bureaucracy or an aid to trade? Ten years after the EU’s Recreational Craft Directive (RCD) came into force, it has established a solid framework of boat construction standards that has made it easier for boatbuilders to market their products internationally. But while most of the ...
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Marketplace | RIBs: High flyers
At this time of market uncertainty, the multi-role versatility of the rigid inflatable boat (RIB) is paying dividends for the industry that produces them. One area in which they have been particularly successful has been in their expanding role as superyacht tenders
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Backlog | Tony Rice: Watching the directive
Ten years ago this June, the EU Recreational Craft Directive came into force. Seen as helpful by some — and a bureaucratic hindrance by others — it has, according to ICOMIA, already proved its worth. The association’s secretary general, Tony Rice talks to bob greenwood.
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Yard round-up | Focus: Canada - Southern border blues
the high value of the canadian dollar has left some of canada’s big-boat builders fighting for survival and has forced many to rethink the way they do business
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World news focus | Webasto Marine: Widening the comfort zone
With its acquisition early this year of half of Indel Marine, German mobile heating, air-conditioning and ventilation group Webasto is driving forward its mission to provide total, fully-integrated onboard environmental control options to the boating industry worldwide. Denis Merle, director of Webasto Marine Comfort, reveals his business strategy.
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BUSINESS REPORT | Germany
In the past year Germany’s boating industry has been competing well, both in its buoyant domestic market and in the wider European zone. But, as with boating industries elsewhere, it is anxious about the worsening world economic picture.
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Marketplace | Marine coatings
How do you solve a problem like Volatile Organic Compound targets? Amid a growing mass of regulation, yacht coatings manufacturers continue to explore ways of reducing the environmental impact of their products while maintaining the high quality of finish that yacht owners demand.
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Backlog | Wilan van der Berg: Duck reborn as Swan
ETAP Yachting’s avian emblem may have been shot out of the sky but under new owner Dehler, with financial backing from Buchanan Capital, the Belgian builder is set to rise to new heights. Dehler CEO and major shareholder — Wilan van den Berg — speaks to bob greenwood.
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Application news | Tecnorib: PZero and the value of Pi
Digital switching is helping style meet function in what is arguably Italy’s most glamorous range of RIBs — the Pirelli PZero.
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Show Preview | 2nd Antibes Yachts Show: Going for brokerage
A growing new superyacht brokerage show is carving a niche for itself at the beginning of the Mediterranean yachting season.
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Backlog | Ronny Skauen: Lateral thinking
Look at the bowthruster in a boat and there’s a good chance it will be a Sleipner Side-Power model. Ronny Skauen — export manager and part owner of the Norwegian company — tells bob greenwood how this business niche is developing.
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Najadvarvet | Cleaner lines
Najad, one of Sweden’s iconic sailing cruiser brands, is trying to shake off its traditional image by investing in fresh designs, advanced construction methods — and a new factory. bob greenwood visits the all-new epoxy moulding plant to find out how its builder, Najadvarvet, sees the future.
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