Tag: Materials

  • Bringing serviceability to yacht interior design

    Bringing serviceability to yacht interior design

    The first interior bulkhead wall is up. Unfortunately you can’t see the nice woodwork since it won’t be mounted until the last moment. But you can see the system we are using to make it possible to dismantle the interior for repairs or changes. Most modern yacht are put together using glue, because this makes…

  • Stairway to … well, down.

    Stairway to … well, down.

    Here’s a first glimpse of the interior design colors: The stairway from the deck-house down to the salon. All floors in the interior are covered by a safety floor mat originally designed for public areas around swimming pools and such. This mat is fully water, fungus and mildew resistant. But most of all it has…

  • Comfortable Steering

    Comfortable Steering

    I think the first time I had the idea that I could actually build my own boat was when I met Peter Stuivenberg on his yacht Crossroads in the Horta Marina on the Azores in 2001. If he could then I should be able too, right? One mistake he said he made was not paying…

  • May the man with the biggest sewage-pipe win…?

    May the man with the biggest sewage-pipe win…?

    To start: I apologize for the web site not working very well since yesterday. My Internet provider has apparently screwed up things at their end. I hope things will improve, otherwise it will take a few days to move to a new one. Anyways…. The work on and in the sail locker has been completed!…