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Fly Fisher 22: the fruit of their hard work

Students work on a cold-molded Fly Fisher 22 center console designed by Van Dam Custon Boats for saltwater flyfishing in the Northeast.

This year the Wood Composites students built three Fly Fisher 22 saltwater center consoles. Designed by Michael Berryer at Van Dam Custom Boats, in Boyne City, Mich., they have moderate freeboard and moderate deadrise, making them suitable for comfortable inshore use in a 1- to 2-foot chop, and will typically be fitted with a 150-hp Yamaha 4-stroke or Evinrude E-TEC 2-stroke.

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The art of high-tech powerboats

Boston BoatWorks and MJM Yachts team up on vessels that marry the best attributes of speed and weight

The first MJM 40 powers around in Boston Harbor outside the BBW shop. When you get four sailors together to build powerboats, interesting things can happen. In my experience, sailors tend to develop an appreciation for and sensitivity to the elements that many powerboaters never do - wind and current, set and drift, stage of the tide, phase of the moon. Powerboaters, with the advent of GPS, may be aware of where they are geographically, but not necessarily nautically and situationally to the degree sailors are.

The good, the bad and the ugly of design

Compromises make it important to know what to look for - and what to avoid - when comparing boats.

In my travels around the waterfront, I'm always on the lookout for the good, bad and just plain ugly in boat design. During the last few months, I've been to a number of boat shows in the United States and Canada and I'm both tickled with the positive innovations and dismayed at some of the bad ideas on display.

A 1950s boat with 21st century power

It's the best of both worlds with this 1954 Huckins - classic styling and soon to be installed modern technology. It's no small task to repower a wooden Huckins with Volvo's IPS propulsion - here's how it's being done.

If ever there was a great boat tale involving a blend of old and new technologies, this has got to be it. Take one classic 1954 Huckins motoryacht built of two layers of 3/8-inch mahogany planking laid out diagonally, screwed to oak framing and fiberglass-sheathed on the outside.

Is that repo boat really a bargain?

You can get a good deal in today's glutted market, but you also can get burned if you're not careful.

Repossessed boats can offer what seem to be amazing deals, especially with owners defaulting on loans in record numbers. Banks contract with repo firms to recover the boats and then sell them off, often at auction, to stem their losses as quickly as possible.

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