Stories
Where the judgment comes from.
Every part we print and every project we take carries what these six taught us.
North Atlantic, 2016
The first sail was a hurricane
First time ever sailing: a delivery from Lunenburg to Antigua for the Caribbean 600 that ran into a bomb cyclone. Four days of storm, nine more to port.
Read the storyThailand, 2023
The client who went dark in Thailand
Roughly $700,000 of resort inventory, a vendor network across a border, armed rebel activity on the route, and a client nobody could reach. Resolved in a month.
Read the storyCowes to Cherbourg, 2025
Rolex Fastnet, the hundredth edition
Invited aboard an 80-foot maxi for one of the oldest offshore races in the world. The mainsail went on at four in the morning the night before the start.
Read the storyUK and France, 2026
Five days, three countries, three suitcases
Fredericton to London on short notice: storage units sorted in Southampton, gear across the Channel through Ouistreham and Caen to Cherbourg, handed off, home in five days.
Read the storyMid-Atlantic repair
The propeller that held
A get-home repair on a variable-pitch propeller, epoxied by hand and meant to last a week. It stayed on the boat for years and crossed oceans before it finally let go, two hundred miles from landfall.
Read the storyNew Brunswick, 2025
A company built out of an RV
One apartment month, then a motorhome: printers on generator power through a hot summer, parts that still had to ship, and the Fastnet at the end of it.
Read the storyYour problem won't scare us.
Email what's going on. We'll tell you honestly whether it's a job for us, and what it would take.
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