The process of building a large sportfishing boat is not a fast one. From the day a contract is signed to the day the owner shoves off from the dock the first time, two years can easily and quickly ...

When I first stepped into the Maverick Boat Group’s P2 factory in Fort Pierce, Florida, the first thing I noticed was what was missing. In most other boatbuilding facilities I have visited, I’ve been ...

The gleaming, high-polished mahogany hull denotes a different time in American boating. A time when skilled craftsmen made things by hand to quality standards. Grand Craft Boats has a storied past, ...

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Balsa core is laid up into the hull of Innovation Yachts’ 2023 Ocean Tribute Award-winning LBV35 catamaran.The reinforcement is volcanic fiber (i.e., basalt), the matrix a room temperature-cured, ...