Metal Boat Quarterly
For the Most Up To Date Metal Boat Society Information
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Updated 12 November 2002
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The Metal Boat Society
The Metal Boat Society is a non-profit organization begun in 1987 to further popular interest in Metal Boats. The general focus has been toward mid-range cruising boats, both power and sail. MBS members are serious metal boat people. Most are either building a boat, intending to build one (or have one built for them), or already own a metal boat. In any case, a potentially valuable resource!
The Current Metal Boat Quarterly
Under new editorship, effective September 2000, the MBQ was given a new format and newly re-focused content. Photographs are now included, and provide a bit more in way of graphic example. Under the editorship of Roger McAfee, the MBQ focuses primarily on hands-on amateur boat building, an excellent resource for the back yard boat builder. For complete membership information please see the new metal boat society web pages at http://www.metalboatsociety.com.
The Prior Metal Boat Quarterly
Issues #1 through #23: Although the Metal Boat Society had offered an informal newsletter from the time of the Society's formation in 1987 until the Fall of 1994, the Metal Boat Quarterly as such began in the Fall of 1994 when Michael Kasten was asked to be editor. Michael Kasten served as MBQ editor for six years, until Fall 2000.
The focus of Metal Boat Quarterly during the editorship of Michael Kasten (Issues #1 through #23) was to foster safety in boating, good aesthetics, responsible design, quality boat building, accuracy of information about Metal Boats, and to share the secrets of successful metal boat building and maintenance. The aim had been to provide a Journal-like resource for both amateurs and professionals involved in metal boat building. Check out the Complete Index of Issues #1 through #23 of the Metal Boat Quarterly. You can also have a look at a Sample Cover of the prior Metal Boat Quarterly.
You can download the MBQ 1997 Special Edition, "Marine Metals Reference" (180k file size), and the MBQ 1998 Special Edition "Corrosion Zincs & Bonding" (320k file size) at the bottom of the Articles and Other Links web page. The MBS Corrosion, Zincs & Bonding issue speaks at length to the problem of bonding aboard boats (boats made of any material, in addition to metal boats). In particular, the ABYC rules are explained and they are also questioned in places. This MBQ Corrosion, Zincs and Bonding booklet will perhaps be somewhat boring reading to some. Unless of course, you have a boat and it happens to have some metal on it immersed in seawater...!
Also see the 1999 MBS Festival Poster - an excellent metal boat graphic by Joaquin Silva.
