SCOPE OF WORKS
Capabilities
SIX DISCIPLINES. TWO WORKSHOPS — ONE POINT OF ACCOUNTABILITY
A boat rarely needs only one thing done. We are set up so that survey, structure, joinery, finish and the trades in between all sit under the same roof and the same standard.
The breadth of the trade
I. THE REGISTER
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Custom Boatbuilding
Commissioned vessels, drawn and built for the water they will actually work in.
Wooden Boat Restoration
Classic and significant timber vessels returned to sound working order.
Repairs & Refits
From storm damage to a full reconfiguration of the interior.
Finishing & Spray Painting
Preparation is the majority of the work and the reason a finish lasts.
Allied Trade Coordination
One point of accountability from survey to handover.
New builds developed with owners and designers from first sketch and lofting through construction, fitout and launch. Traditional carvel and clinker, cold-moulded and strip-plank construction, with composite work where the brief calls for it. MAIWAR, the ocean rowing boat designed and built in this shed, is the clearest statement of what the team can carry through end to end.
Structural restoration led by survey rather than appearance: fastenings, floors, frames, garboards and the ends where water collects. We retain as much original fabric as the boat will allow and replace only what must be replaced, then keep a written and photographic record that stays with the vessel.
Structural repairs, replanking, frame and floor renewal, deck and coaming work, rudder and steering repairs, joinery and interior reconfiguration. Refits are staged so the boat is never opened up further than the season allows, and the original design intent is respected throughout.
Fairing, priming, brightwork, hand-laid varnish and two-pack spray application in a dedicated finishing area. Antifoul, boot-topping and topside refinishing carried out to a standard that survives Queensland sun and a working season on the bay.
Mechanical, engineering, rigging, sailmaking, electrical, electronics and trimming arranged and supervised by us through long-standing relationships with trades we trust. The owner deals with the workshop, not with six separate contractors and their calendars.
SIX DISCIPLINES
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CONSERVATION
SURVEY & SCOPE
STRUCTURAL RENEWAL
REPLANKING
RECORDS KEPT
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STRUCTURAL
DAMAGE REPAIR
DECK & COAMINGS
INTERIOR JOINERY
STAGED REFITS
Annual slipping, seasonal programmes and continuing care for vessels we know well, on a schedule agreed in advance and reviewed each year. Several boats under our care belong to owners who are not always in Queensland; continuity of team and record is the point.
PAINT & VARNISH
FAIRING & PRIMING
TWO-PACK SPRAY
VARNISH & BRIGHT WORK
ANTIFOUL
VESSEL CARE
ANNUA; SLIPPING
SEASONAL PROGRAMMES
CONDITION REPORTING
OWNER RECORDS
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Scheduled Maintenance
Planned work is almost always less costly than the repair it prevents.
NEW BUILD
LOFTING & JOINERY
HULL CONSTRUCTION
FITOUT & JOINERY
LAUNCH & TRIALS
COORDINATION
MENHANICAL & ENGINEERING
RIGGING & SAILS
ELECTRICAL
TRIM & UPHOLSTERY
Every job begins with an inspection and a written scope: what is structural, what is cosmetic, what can safely wait, and an indicative cost for each stage. Owners can take a programme in one campaign or across several seasons.
Work is sequenced so nothing is done twice — structure before joinery, joinery before finish, hardware last. Where allied trades are needed they are booked into that same sequence and supervised by us.
Photographs, timber and fastening specifications and dates are recorded as we go and handed over with the boat, so the next shipwright to open her up knows exactly what was done and when.
II. HOW THE WORK IS RUN
METHOD
III. WHAT OWENERS CAN EXPECT ON SITE
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Boats arrive by road or on their own bottom; we handle craning, cradling and shoring in the bay.
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Survey, opening up and a photographed condition report before any priced work begins.
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A staged scope with figures and sequence, signed off before the shed starts cutting.
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One lead hand on your vessel for its duration, reachable directly during shed hours.
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Staged photographic updates as each phase closes, plus a call on anything found that changes the scope.
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You are welcome in the shed by arrangement, with PPE provided and someone free to walk you through the work.
FROM ARRIVAL
IV. WORKSHOPS & FACILITIES
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Undercover hull bays
Finishing & Spray Area
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Machinery & Fabrication
Undercover bays taking vessels to sixty feet, with the height and access to strip a hull, renew frames and replank without the boat ever standing in weather. A vessel stays in the one bay for the duration of its programme rather than being shuffled between spaces.
A dedicated finishing area kept physically separate from dust-generating work, with extraction and controlled lighting for fairing, priming, two-pack spray application and hand-laid varnish. Preparation happens here, not in a corner of the shed.
Thicknesser, bandsaw, planer and steam box for frame and plank work, with bench metalwork for floors, fastenings and fittings. Traditional hand tools stay in daily use where the machine cannot follow the shape of a hull.
Slipping and on-site work carried out where boats are berthed, for antifoul, running gear, survey work and anything better done without a road move. Vessels come into the shed only when the work warrants it.
Records & Owner Access
Bench space for interior joinery, cabinetry, hatches, spars and small craft built alongside larger programmes. Timber is selected, stored and worked on site so grain, moisture and finish are matched to the vessel rather than ordered in.
Every programme is photographed and documented as it runs — timbers, fastenings, dates and decisions — and owners are welcome in the shed to see their boat open. The record is handed over with the vessel.
THORNLANDS & RANSOME, QLD
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Joinery & Bench Space
Slipway & On-Water Access
Most of what people admire in a finish happened before any paint was mixed. Fairing, filling and priming are the long part; the topcoat is the short one, and it only looks right if the air it lands in is clean.
Keeping the finishing area separate from planing, sanding and grinding is the single most useful thing a workshop can do for the durability of its own work — and it is the reason a two-pack finish laid here survives a Queensland season on the bay.
Brightwork and varnish are laid by hand in the same space, built up in coats over days rather than forced in an afternoon.
V. CLEAN AIR. CONTROLLED LIGHT
FINISHING
VI. STANDING DETAILS
ALLIED TRADES
Mechanical · rigging · electrical · trim, coordinated by us
AT A GLANCE
LOCATION
Shed 6, 100 Beveridge Rd, Thornlands QLD 4164
TRADES ON SITE
Shipwrights · boatbuilders · joiners · finishers
MAXIMUM VESSEL
Approx. sixty feet, under cover
CONSTRUCTION
Carvel · clinker · cold-moulded · strip-plank · composite
VISITS
Owners and prospective clients welcome