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Contemporary Wooden Boat Building

Durable and easy to maintain

Segelkanu Bufflehead, Plankennaht Bootsbaugarage boats consist of a wooden core covered on both sides with fiberglass and epoxy. This makes them as sturdy as fiberglass-laminate boats, as light as Kevlar-carbon hulls, and as beautiful as wooden boats. They have the potential to become tomorrow's classics - boats you can already be proud of today.

Composite building technology

Bufflehead Segelkanu, Detail Masthalterung My boats have a handcrafted core of marine plywood or solid wood strips.
I coat hulls and decks with thin glass fibre and epoxy resin. This coating cures like varnish and protects the wood from moisture very effectively. It is a perfect water barrier, and it does not swell or shrink. Boats built using this technique therefore remain absolutely watertight.
Inside, I coat the hulls with fibreglass or KevlarTM fabric and epoxy resin. The coatings make the hull rigid and very resistant. KevlarTM is extremely impact-resistant. A KevlarTM-coated boat hull can withstand impacts without leaking.
I build reinforcements in the hull and the rig from carbon fibre.

This so-called composite construction method produces light, robust, durable and absolutely watertight boats. The crystal-clear coating allows the wood to show off its full beauty and protects it perfectly from water and other environmental influences.