The Landing School and the Flyfisher 22
At IBEX 2013, the Landing School will offer a free presentation on "The Evolution, Design, and Build of the Flyfisher 22" a cold-molded center-console boat built at the school.
With input from the head product developer and head marketing staff at the LL Bean hunting and fishing division, as well as several flyfishing guides, The Landing School and Van Dam Custom Boats developed custom plans for this boat, which was constructed by students at the school.
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Erik Seither on SNAME
Air Date
May 21, 2013
The Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers (SNAME) members have published literally millions of pages of original research defining the state of the art and best practices in naval architecture and marine engineering. These same members have also overseen the building of countless marine craft and structures of all sizes and descriptions.
Listen now to this week’s show, as SNAME Executive Director Erik Seither joins us to talk about the organization's Read more [...]
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Talent
Air Date
May 14, 2013
Rich Difede (Gold Coast Yachts) says, "Talent is critical… so what do we do to manage its development?" Rich joins PBRadio hosts Barbara Jean Walsh and Ann Avary in discussing talent from a variety of viewpoints: mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and professional.
Ann Avary will also share some information from a recent wage and benefit survey conducted by the Northwest Center of Excellence and Washington State University. "It includes a lot of questions about Read more [...]
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Comprehensive Immigration Reporm
Air Date
April 23, 2013
This week's show is all about Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR). Listen in to find out how CIR is going to affect you, even if every member of your workforce is someone you know personally to be a U.S. citizen. And keep in mind, millions of members of the U.S. labor pool do not actually have authorization to work here.
Once CIR is passed, though, that will change, and marine-industry employers will need guidance on how to handle any number of new situations that Read more [...]
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The Service Department: Outboard Repair
Air Date
April 16, 2013
Today, the marine industry is seeing a huge variety of outboards, from tiny solar-powered trolling motors to the largest single outboards ever built. While a few owners still enjoy tinkering with older engines, most boaters are happy to trust these increasingly complex machines to factory-trained service techs.
Listen now: In this preview of his IBEX 2013 seminar, John Bernier (North Atlantic Marine Services), reviews a series of questions that every service tech needs Read more [...]
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The Impact of Warranty Work
Air Date
April 9, 2013
For most people, the "impact of warranty work" means a financial burden, but it can be much more than that.
On this week's show, we learn how Brunswick Boat Group (BBG) takes warranty data and integrates it with additional quality information to improve the design of new models, as well as supplier sourcing.
BBG's Director of Quality Craig Laboranti joins us to discuss how the company manages this complex process. Laboranti has been with BBG for more than 10 years Read more [...]
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Surveyors Roundtable: Birth of a New Standard
Air Date
April 2, 2013
Surveyors Roundtable member Steve Knox was the chair of the committee that wrote the new ABYC standard A-33 Emergency Engine Cut-Off Devices in 2007 and 2008.
He likens it to making sausage – don’t dwell on how it came to be, just use it and enjoy it.
John Adey, President of ABYC, is our guest as we discuss who belongs to these committees, and what the process is to develop and review ABYC standards.
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Superyachts: Checking in at New World Yacht Builders
Air Date
March 26, 2013
The superyacht market is one of the most dynamic components of the marine industry with distinctive hull designs, colors and ornamentation set many yachts apart, effectively branding the companies that design and manufacturer them.
Join Ann Avary as she interviews Wes Fridell of New World Yacht Builders in Anacortes, Washington about the changing face of the industry: product diversification, trends, technologies, materials, and where the industry is heading. New Read more [...]
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Robin Coles and Keeping it Fun
Air Date
March 19, 2013
During the past couple years, as Robin G. Coles (owner of
TheNauticalLifestyle.com) has promoted her book Boating Secrets: 127 Top Tips to Help You Buy and Enjoy Your Boat at various boating events, she picked up on an all too familiar pattern, namely, how boating would be more fun if only. . . .
Click here to listen to our conversation with Robin.
This past year, at both the Providence RI and Strictly Sail Miami boat shows, Robin put a flip chart in her booth. Read more [...]
Scott Lewit: Lightweight Composite Boat Building
Air Date
March 12, 2013
Composite boat builders looking for lighter weights are often also looking for lower costs in materials, labor, and propulsion, too, while some builders have found they must actually pay more for materials and labor.
At IBEX 2012, Scott Lewit (Structural Composites Inc.) took part in a panel discussing the spectrum of lightweight boatbuilding and reported on his company's work on lightweight composites in military applications. Lewit joins us now with the final results Read more [...]
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Surveyors Roundtable: Boat Moving and Blocking
Air Date
March 5, 2013
Seems like just yesterday that establishing proper methods for boat hauling and storage was the hot topic in boatyards and ABYC's TY-28 Guidelines grew out of those discussions. Well, how time flies. That was 15 years ago, as the latest issue of Professional BoatBuilder magazine reminds us. For this week's episode of ProBoat Radio, we'll review the practices that prompted the writing of TY-28 and talk about what's changed since then. Meanwhile, take a look at these "kids Read more [...]
Eric Sponberg: The S Number
Air Date
February 26, 2013
In a conversation with this week's host Ann Avary, yacht designer Eric Sponberg tells us, "S# (pronounced 'S-Number') is a concept I work with in developing new sailing yacht designs with customers. S# rates sailboat performance on a scale of 1 to 10. The performance of any sailboat is pretty much fixed by only three factors: Length, boat weight, and sail area. Traditionally, we use Displacement-Length ratio and Sail Area-Displacement ratio to evaluate sailboat Read more [...]
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Out-of-Autoclave Prepregs
Air Date
February 19, 2013
Mike Bergen (Custom Technologies LLC) and Mark Bishop (Waterfront Composite Solutions LLC) join us with a preview of their IBEX 2013 seminar on this process which offers and interesting alternative to VARTM.
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Bergen starts by giving his perspective from the Navy side, although he has recently separated from the service and has started his own company.
The Navy became interested in this technology as early as 2001 as a possibility for Read more [...]
Boat Vibration Causes and Solutions
Air Date
February 12, 2013
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During the past five years, Bill Johnson (Engineering Concepts LLC) has explored numerous causes and solutions to boat vibrations. In this preview to his IBEX 2013 seminar, Bill offers a few ideas about what type of mount might be better suited for a particular application.
Bill Johnson’s website opens with the offer to give your boat an EKG. What’s shaking? Johnson got into the marine industry from as his work in manufacturing Read more [...]
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Surveyors Roundtable: Forensics
Air Date
February 5, 2013
For a discussion about forensic surveying, our regular roundtable members are joined by Greg Davis, Senior Managing Consultant of ESI, and founder of Davis & Co. Davis has more than 38 years of experience investigating marine incidents, and is a Board Certified Forensic Examiner (Fellow) of the American Board of Forensic Examiners.
Listen to this show by clicking here now.
Greg Davis is now Senior Management Consultant with ESI, but he also still owner of Davis Read more [...]
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Grantsmanship
Air Date January 29, 2013
Our ProBoat Radio West host, Ann Avary, sits on the other side of the desk for this show, filling us in on a major grant received by Skagit Valley College. We start our conversation by finding out a little about what the grant covers.
“This is a consortium grant,” says Avary. “It’s a $20 million Dept of Labor Grant, affecting 10 colleges that are involved in aerospace training. The lead entity is Spokane Community College. The grant will run for three years, Read more [...]
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Legendary Marine: 2012 Dealer of the Year
Air Date: January 22, 2013
Listen in now as we have a conversation with Fred Pace, managing partner and founder of Legendary Marine, named North America’s #1 Boat Dealer in 2012 as voted by the editors of Boating Industry magazine.
Under Pace's direction and leadership, Legendary Marine has consistently earned top national and regional performance ranking, capping with this most recent pinnacle of achievement.
We begin by talking about how Legendary Marine became Boating Industry’s Read more [...]
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My-Villages with Kevin Hutchinson
Air Date January 15, 2012
Our guest is Kevin Hutchinson, CEO and founder of My-Villages an online collaborative where boat owners, service providers, and builders can connect online in a powerful new network.
During our conversation -- click here for the link -- Hutchinson tells us that this innovative resource will provide marine industry professionals with new tools for working with their service customers, as well as a revolutionary way to connect and share information.
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Innovation Awards 2012
Air Date: December 18, 2012 Alan Wendt, chair of this past year's IBEX panel of judges from Boating Writers International, joins us to discuss the 2012 Innovation Award winners.
"From a five-dollar part to highly engineered superyacht technology, the judges found innovation for all classes of boating," he says, "These are the products that make boating not only more affordable but also easier for the consumer."
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