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Making Waves: Aritex – The Art of Steel

It can be overlooked as merely utilitarian, but Aritex takes pride in all the stainless-steel hardware it has built for many of the world’s outstanding yachts since the business started in 1983 in a small rented space. Today the company has three locations and employs 300 people in tasks from design and engineering to steel polishing.

Stowable Carbon Fiber Boarding Stairs

A new company in the yachting equipment marketplace, Bristol Yacht Components, has introduced its premier product line: Bristol Boarding Stairs. Bristol Boarding Stairs are made of carbon fiber to provide a durable, lightweight, easy-to-deploy access system with an aesthetic design to enhance the look of any motoryacht or sailing vessel.

Hemisphere: Lorima Carbon Masts

Lorima, a 10-year-old company that specializes in carbon composite masts and spars, is located in a former submarine facility, which played a key role during World War II. The bomb-resistant facility built by the Germans to conceal their U-boats during the war, closed as a French Navy facility in the early 1990s. It is now home to various businesses, including the company that was contracted to build the main mast of the world’s largest catamaran.

Cloud-Based Job Costing Comes To The Yard

Late delivery and budget overruns are among the biggest bugaboos of the yachting industry. If a Fort Lauderdale company has its way, those may soon be things of the past. StellarPM has developed a cloud-based job costing and tracking system called ProjectPerfect specifically for the marine construction industry.

Mahogany splendor

With a modest output of mahogany boats, each built by hand and customized down to the smallest detail, the Hacker Boat Company has established itself

The case for wood

In the past we have examined the advantages of using aluminum (Yachts International, June 2010) and composites (Yachts International, February 2010) in yacht construction. We

Breaking the glass ceiling

Looking for the wow factor? Designers can come up with a seemingly endless list of innovative materials, but glass, with its multiple properties—ability to distort,

The charm of wooden construction

Wood construction has become a niche specialization in most areas, except perhaps Turkey, where there are still many craftsmen skilled in woodwork. Tuzla-based Logos Marine,

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Making Waves: Aritex – The Art of Steel

It can be overlooked as merely utilitarian, but Aritex takes pride in all the stainless-steel hardware it has built for many of the world’s outstanding yachts since the business started in 1983 in a small rented space. Today the company has three locations and employs 300 people in tasks from design and engineering to steel polishing.

BristolYachtComponentsStairs

Stowable Carbon Fiber Boarding Stairs

A new company in the yachting equipment marketplace, Bristol Yacht Components, has introduced its premier product line: Bristol Boarding Stairs. Bristol Boarding Stairs are made of carbon fiber to provide a durable, lightweight, easy-to-deploy access system with an aesthetic design to enhance the look of any motoryacht or sailing vessel.

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Hemisphere: Lorima Carbon Masts

Lorima, a 10-year-old company that specializes in carbon composite masts and spars, is located in a former submarine facility, which played a key role during World War II. The bomb-resistant facility built by the Germans to conceal their U-boats during the war, closed as a French Navy facility in the early 1990s. It is now home to various businesses, including the company that was contracted to build the main mast of the world’s largest catamaran.

Construction

Cloud-Based Job Costing Comes To The Yard

Late delivery and budget overruns are among the biggest bugaboos of the yachting industry. If a Fort Lauderdale company has its way, those may soon be things of the past. StellarPM has developed a cloud-based job costing and tracking system called ProjectPerfect specifically for the marine construction industry.

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Mahogany splendor

With a modest output of mahogany boats, each built by hand and customized down to the smallest detail, the Hacker Boat Company has established itself

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The case for wood

In the past we have examined the advantages of using aluminum (Yachts International, June 2010) and composites (Yachts International, February 2010) in yacht construction. We

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Breaking the glass ceiling

Looking for the wow factor? Designers can come up with a seemingly endless list of innovative materials, but glass, with its multiple properties—ability to distort,

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The charm of wooden construction

Wood construction has become a niche specialization in most areas, except perhaps Turkey, where there are still many craftsmen skilled in woodwork. Tuzla-based Logos Marine,

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