Sparks! In Tampa, FL -- September 30, 2019
7:00 -- 11:00 pm
The Night Before IBEX

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An Inspirational Night of Boat Design Concepts, powered by PechaKucha. 

September 30, 2019, the evening before IBEX.  At the CAMLS Center in Tampa, FL.

This event has been CANCELLED.  Sorry!


Managed and produced by the Sparks Group in association with Professional BoatBuilder Magazine.

Sponsored by the Sparks Group and Tides Marine  [contact us if you'd like to be a sponsor in 2019:  carl1cramer@gmail.com]

Twelve designers will present their design concepts through 20 slides at 20 seconds each.  We've produced these events in Louisville, Kentucky, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Tampa, Florida.  It promises to be an engaging and inspirational night. 

Because there is no charge for this event, we do request that -- if you need to cancel after you have signed up -- please let us know right away.  There is limited space at the CAMLS Center, and we want to accommodate as many people as possible.

For those of you who wish to be considered as speakers, we request that you send us your design ideas, with a title and short description.  You can forward these separately, to:  carl1cramer@gmail.com.  Unfortunately, we cannot pay our presenters.  And this is not a forum for vendors to present their products.

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To register for IBEX, go HERE.

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Last year's speakers and their presentations:


​2018 Sparks! Speakers (listed alphabetically)

Dick Baldwin (Miniboat Research Collaborative) 

  Miniboats Crossing Oceans 
​​https://youtu.be/wthk1jNFrJM

Duane Branch (New England Boatworks) 
   Rising  From the Ashes:  Resurrection of a Power Cat Design 
https://youtu.be/XV4XbW_ztKM

Nigel Calder (Calder Marine Enterprises) 
  Abundant Energy  
https://youtu.be/5PO5Irk4vLo

Esteban Castro   (Crown Hydrodynamics)
  Towards the F-16 of Planing Craft  ​
https://youtu.be/_UKMWPBUHvI

Martha Coolidge (Martha Coolidge Design)        
   Deja Vu All Over Again  
https://youtu.be/EPH_cgu1NNk

Alan Gurski (WEST System; ProSet; Gougeon Brothers) 
 The Design Experiments of Meade and Jan Gougeon   
https://youtu.be/d1L1tRVxYfk

Scott Lewit (Structural Composites) 
  Cost-Effective Lightweight Designs   
https://youtu.be/n8-sImak02A

Charles Palame (Morph Marine and Farr Yacht Design)          
  Morphing Hulls  
https://youtu.be/9b-Y108l5wM

Michael Reardon (Daedalus Yachts) 
   Inspiration to Innovation  
 https://youtu.be/u6bx1f69h00

Rob Schofield (RA Schofield, Naval Architect)
Tourists, Amphibians, High Speed Cats, and the U.S. Coast Guard  
https://youtu.be/pOYcc4daNBM
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Augusto (Kiko) Villalon (Ancon Marine Consultants)
  The Freshman Class  
https://youtu.be/PlP0fl7LHM0

Stephen Wu (Xplora Yachts)
  Rebuilding the Modern Boatbuilding Industry
​ https://youtu.be/rCzBScFfCFQ

NOTE:  Registering for Sparks! does NOT automatically register you for IBEX. You may register for IBEX HERE. 

​We look forward to seeing you the evening before IBEX (October 1-3, 2019) -- thus, the night of September 30, 2019.

Register For Sparks! 2019-- at no charge -- HERE



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