Specialised Marine Shipwrights / Boatbuilders

14/12/2025

Custom order! For myself @🌲🎅
Solid blackbutt front doors with a half lap joint, 6mm toughend frosted glass panels. 8 coats of AWL wood gloss varnish and 2 X satin over the top. Very very heavy duty double lock. Was a nice little project to finally get finished as I started these doors 8 months ago but work has just been off its head busy. So just in time for Christmas 🎅

28/11/2025

28/11/2025

Just a few of my favourites, take your time and scroll through. Cheers 🍻

26/11/2025

Another absolutely beautiful Pleysier in for some minor repairs, Inkwazi, gets some love to stop the wet stuff spreading into the strip planked Western red cedar deck. When removing timber rot its like cancer, you must go further than required just to make sure it never returns and you get every bit. The hinges were the culprit in this scenario. In doing this repair I always drill oversized holes where the bolts go eg for a 5mm bolt I’ll drill a 12mm hole and back fill the hole with west systems epoxy and 403 glue powder. I then re drill all required holes and as you can see there is absolutely no way this can ever happen again. I can guarantee it works as I’ve been doing this for many years. 😊👌
Another job was to try and eliminate the bounce the cockpit deck has at the very stern. I’ve custom made up some timber and ply chocks in which I’ve mounted in onto the rudder stocks. And put in on a small bed of sika.

25/11/2025

Thalassa in for repair after a rope left on the bollard and out the fairleed gets introduced to the propeller 😖
Luck the owner had some celery top for the repairs 😊👌
Each 5mm lamination was stepped out 15mm x 6 at a total thickness of 30mm.

17/10/2025

Shaw 650 in for some much needed repairs, delaminated forward top deck, epoxy filler poping off. Dremel out and primer in. Re fill fair and undercoat. Mask out and top coat. Paint blisters in the transom sorted. All rigging mast, boom, kite pole and tiller to be re painted in AWL craft 3000 jet black flat.
Rudder repairs and re top coat.
Great colour match for a 16yo boat. A very very light hi performance machine.

13/10/2025

10/10/2025

Grand Banks 36 in for her annual service. Sliped at Fenwicks marine for antifouling, prop speed and hull polish and I’ll say they are the best in the business 👌. Specialised Marine in for full superstructure wet rub and polish, polish x 2 😳
Total deck sand as we layed new teak decks 8 years ago and made the solid teak swim platform that still looks as good as the day it was made! All varnish rubbed back and 2 full coats. Engine strainers all cleaned and valves greased up. All bilges scrubed and cleanes dry. New Garmin 16” head unit fitted with a neat solid teak back panel. As always the client is over the moon. 😊
Going to be a Crazy run now right into Christmas 🎄

12/09/2025

There is a bit on at the moment so plenty of pics and it just keeps on coming. The absolutely gorgeous Avalon ll up for a slip and antifouling at Fenwicks marina, these guys are the absolute best in the business 👌 Up for Her anual maintenance and small touch up repairs as she is a 1979 David Pleysier design and all timber built! She has been beautifully looked after and cared for. 😍
Next up I’m on an older Southwind UB 6.7 in for a full external detail to topsides and centre console. Full wet rub and polish after sitting for many years. Fit all new electronics to console. Make up a solid fiberglass base for console and epoxy glue down onto existing deck, glue and glass in forward hatch as half of it will now be under the front console, Drill and tap in all new 316 M6 metal threads, drill and tap all alloy supports for T Top. Make up a solid glass mounting block for the transducer. I’ve removed the old large fenders and had to fill 160 screw holes. The hatch at the aft end of console was very flexible where you stand so have added two timber stiffeners !!Adding a new Hydrive hydraulic steering system and running new wires for a large bilge pump and Nav lights. Adding one of our all new desighn solid fiberglass boarding steps onto the port side transom.

30/08/2025

From starting a new plug then moulds x 2 we are now making to order our new solid fiberglass transom steps. Call Dave on 0417274609

30/08/2025

Finally finished the new fiberglass work on the forward front deck, was a little fiddly but well worth it. I’m super happy with the aesthetics it’s added too the look and although it’s not going to stop a greenie over the front but will stop a little water coming over 👌

26/08/2025

Plent hapening at the moment, I think spring has sprung.