Ship & Boat International

Six issues a year providing detailed coverage of small craft and small ship design, construction and operation. News items together with specialised features and technical descriptions of selected new vessels, including fast ferries, tugs, offshore support vessels patrol craft, pilot launches, coastal cargo ships.

Regular features on propulsion machinery; CAD/CAM and marine electronics

Editor: Martin Conway

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Can India overcome its obstacles?

As one old maxim has it, the patient can’t be cured until he acknowledges he is sick, and it would appear that India is finally facing up to its problematic record in the boatbuilding department. On paper, India should be giving its Asian neighbours a serious run for their money; the country is producing some excellently-trained naval architects, and enjoys a niche foothold in warship contruction.

Picture perfect

The Oslo School of Architecture and Aalesund University, Norway, are jointly encouraging architects and designers to collaborate on creating exhaustive, web-based, pictoral databases, to give non-maritime and student naval designers a better grasp of vessel bridge layouts.

Road to recovery

Ship & Boat International profiles some recent safety product launches for man overboard scenarios, including a box-enclosed evacuation system, laser-powered distress flares and a glow-in-the-dark solution for lifelines.