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What we changed, and why. Written from the floor by the people doing the work — not from a marketing desk.

The mast came down on a Tuesday.

Fifty-two metres of sloop, unstepped in forty minutes and laid out on trestles for a survey that decided the rest of her refit. What we found in the spreader roots is the reason the scope grew.

12 AUGUST 20267 MIN

12 ENTRIES · NEWEST FIRST

AUGUST 2026 03 ENTRIES

REFIT DIARY 08 AUG

Forty-three metres, back to bare metal Why we took an aluminium hull to substrate rather than patch a coating that still looked fine from the dock. 6 MIN CRAFT 05 AUG

What a thickness map actually tells you Two hundred and forty ultrasonic readings, and the three of them that changed the quotation. 5 MIN PEOPLE 01 AUG

Thirty years at the same bench Our senior shipwright started here as an apprentice in 1996. He has taught nine of the twelve men now on the floor. 4 MIN

JULY 2026 04 ENTRIES

REFIT DIARY 28 JUL

Six cabins, one dry fit The whole interior goes together in the shed before a single panel goes aboard. It costs a week and saves a month. 5 MIN CRAFT 21 JUL

Why we log dew point every hour Half of all coating failures are a weather record nobody kept. Ours is written down, hour by hour, and handed over. 6 MIN PRESS 14 JUL

Reviva in the summer refit review A short piece on why owners are bringing northern European hulls to Tuzla for winter work. 3 MIN FROM THE YARD 07 JUL

A wider bay for the travel lift Two months of civil work so beamier hulls can come out of the water without a barge and a prayer. 4 MIN

JUNE 2026 05 ENTRIES

FLEET 27 JUN

Zima comes back for her first survey Two seasons after redelivery, the coating, the systems and the joinery are inspected against the day she left. 4 MIN PEOPLE 19 JUN

The 2026 apprentices Eleven trades, eleven intakes. Three years before anyone signs off their own work — and why that is not negotiable. 5 MIN CRAFT 11 JUN

Anti-fouling, and where the runoff goes Containment, filtration and an audited waste stream — because it goes into the same water we work on. 5 MIN FLEET 03 JUN

Mirabella, redelivered Forty-eight metres, fourteen months, and the sea trial figures against what was promised at survey. 6 MIN FROM THE YARD 02 JUN

The stores moved next to the berth A small change with an outsized effect: nobody walks four hundred metres for a fitting any more. 3 MIN

Four dispatches a year, no more.

One at the end of each season: what left the yard, what came in, and what we learned the hard way. Written by the project managers, not resold to anyone.

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The mast came down on a Tuesday.

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Four dispatches a year, no more.