Category: Craft & Method

There is no crane, no travel lift and no launch ramp at Tana Beru. A finished hull weighing many tonnes is moved to the sea across sand, on greased timber ways and rollers, hauled by ropes and a large number…

A well-built hardwood hull, properly maintained, works for decades. A hull of the same construction, neglected between haul-outs, can need major plank replacement within a handful of seasons. The difference is rarely the yard’s skill. It is four things: species…

A wooden hull needs dense, durable, rot-resistant hardwood in long clear lengths. Ironwood and bitti do that job better than almost anything else, which is precisely the problem: slow-growing, heavy, high-value species under pressure everywhere they occur. This is the…

A 30-metre hull is commonly quoted at nine to twelve months. Smaller craft are often cited at ten to fourteen months, and large custom yachts at twenty to twenty-four months or more. That range is not vagueness — it is…

In a Konjo build the planks come first. Strakes are shaped and dowelled edge to edge until the shell stands on its own, and the internal frames are fitted afterwards, inside a hull that already has its shape. To anyone…