Interiors
Not a supplier: thirty metres from the hull. When a measurement is wrong, someone walks over instead of telephoning.
The point
Humidity, sun and the working of the hull pull at every joint. Domestic furniture lasts two seasons afloat.
So the furniture is built with joints that are allowed to move: mechanical fixings, calculated tolerances, and everything demountable.
And so the timber sits in the yard acclimatising for at least four weeks before anyone touches it. That is time nobody ever sees on an invoice, and it decides what the boat is like in ten years.
What leaves the workshop
Everything made of wood aboard is made here, from the same drawing and the same log. That is why the interiors line up.
How it is done
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Aboard, with templates. Build drawings are never enough: the real hull is a different thing.
1 – 3 days
02
Every piece drawn with its tolerances. Approved before anything is cut.
1 – 2 weeks
03
In the workshop, dry-assembled complete before any finish goes on.
3 – 8 weeks
04
Aboard, with the last adjustment done by hand. That part cannot be scheduled.
1 – 2 weeks
Subcontract
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Questions
Eleven are held in stock, from mahogany to teak to bleached oak. Anything outside stock adds four to six weeks, which is the acclimatisation time.
Leather goes to a workshop in Naples we have used for twenty years. The drawing and the fitting stay with us.
Yes, and it is worth it: a thirty-centimetre sample settles in ten minutes what words will not settle in a month.
Quotes
Even a hand sketch with rough dimensions is enough to tell whether the piece is in our range.