More often than not,

• When one starts out with either a head liner or an upholstery project this leads into wiring and furniture refurbishment and re-varnishing. 

• The last project I did we widened a birth and and did some major holding tank alterations as well as updating the nav- station with all required wood work.

• The difficulty is in pickling the wood to match the colour of old teak. This requires patience and dedication.

This grand Banks 46 job

“Grey Goose”

• Started out with the leather upholstery and ended up with a 3 month paint job and new teak decks.

• Owned by the Grevendyk's in Seattle.  We hauled her out on my dry dock and did the work over winter.

• This was so much of a pleasure to work on I bought a Grand Banks myself.

• Wonderful visibility and a great handling vessel.

Although the bigger boats

• Are more interesting, I have done well over 200 open boat suites. 

• These need to be addressed and treated differently to yachts.

• Your shop has to be super clean.

• Heat forming the plastics as well as having a working relationship with the manufacturer is vital to restore a boat to its original condition.

• This is especially true relating the fabric serial #'s and original fittings - hardware supply.

TANS AND BEIGE

Neutral colors are always Great

• I try to work with texture in order to get some tangible aesthetics into the work I do. 

• The other colors are white and then blue and white.

• Cladding with teak is a new thing in the marine industry for small boats.

• This is simply accomplished by patterning and fabricating in your shop prior to install.

• The install process is quick and simple. 

C&C Yachts

• This is a simple and nice design.

• I was asked to replace the Upholstery on this model as they had shop soiled the demo model.

• Foam forming, patterning cushions and bedding are part of our suite of services. 

• For newer small boats we normally complete the entire suite as replacing one piece will show up the the older cushions.

The new owner did not like the shade of the upholstery…

So we changed it.

• I love these jobs, all the work is already done. The fabrics are so new you can use the old fabric as a pattern.

• Nice folks, sold their business and decided to go cruising.

• I could not think of a better boat to see the world in.

• Nordhavn I regard as the benchmark. We replaced all the upholstery in less than three weeks.