MARINE ENGINEERING
Boat builders, ship repair, shipwrights, boat refits, marine engineering,
boat construction in aluminium, steel, timber and composite, boat
painting, winches. At Port Nelson, New Zealand.
New Charter Boats - Fabrication
We started with a very old steel hull, so the Island Passage is not technically a brand new boat. She had been a vehicle ferry in a previous life.
However, after we shortened the hull, the entire superstructure was built from scratch, so we think of her as a new build. She is totally unrecognisable from the original hull. We think that's a good thing!
Predator is a 17m alloy catamaran. Here she is in the early stages of construction, starting with the stringers being attached.
These photos of Island Passage at left show some of the timber work by our shipwrights.