ALL34 REFIT DIARY02 FROM THE YARD12 CRAFT15 PEOPLE02 FLEET02 PRESS01

SEPTEMBER 2026 16 ENTRIES

CRAFT 07 SEP Living aboard through a yard period A yard period is lived through from the other side by the people who arrive with the boat. The four windows in which she cannot be slept aboard, the knowledge only the crew carry, and which owner's visit is worth the flight. 6 MIN CRAFT 07 SEP Everything below the waterline Fins, seals, bearings, wheels, stocks and anodes are one machine underwater. They share an access window and a set of clearances, so a decision on one moves the acceptance figures for the others. 6 MIN FROM THE YARD 05 SEP What the torch finds The one scope that cannot be fixed at a quotation, and what an agreed line on the plate is worth when the final account is argued. 6 MIN CRAFT 05 SEP The lid on the hull A deck is the lid on the hull, and every fitting let into it is a hole that has to stay sealed. What the failure mode of the caulk is telling you, and the tests that prove a closure rather than assert it. 6 MIN FROM THE YARD 03 SEP The fence, and what crosses it A berth in a working repair basin is a position in somebody else's week. What the commercial neighbours give a refit, what she has to be protected from while she lies there, and who is answerable for the difference. 6 MIN CRAFT 03 SEP The days she stands on blocks A dry docking is a window rather than a scope of work. What can only be reached with her on blocks, what actually fixes the day she floats, and why the expensive mistake is the compartment nobody opened while she was out. 6 MIN FROM THE YARD 03 SEP A short run to deep water The trial does not discover whether the work was done. It confirms what the register already says: proved alongside, run at the dock, then two days in the Marmara with a surveyor timing the steering gear. 6 MIN CRAFT 03 SEP Nine panels of twenty An interior is a weight, a fire boundary and the lid on every service behind it. What the stability figures allow, what the certificate has to say, and what still has to come off in the third season. 6 MIN FROM THE YARD 02 SEP An hour after the last spark A yacht on blocks is a different risk from a yacht in commission. What ship repairer's liability reaches, what it does not, who has to tell the underwriter, and the fire watch that stands for an hour after the last spark. 5 MIN CRAFT 02 SEP What comes in behind the engine An overhaul can be stopped halfway and a repower cannot. The emissions tier a replacement actually lands under, the limits the new units tend to break, and what a repower will not pay for. 6 MIN FROM THE YARD 02 SEP The part, and how far it comes The fabrication a refit generates is made at benches within a short drive of the quay. The rest crosses a border, and knowing which is which before the survey closes is what holds a programme to its dates. 6 MIN CRAFT 02 SEP What the joinery closes in The paint is what an owner judges at handover. The systems are what an owner lives with for the next decade. What happens in the machinery space, and the records that show it was done while the space was still open. 6 MIN FROM THE YARD 01 SEP What a shortlist cannot see from the quay The questions an owner can put to a yard on any coast, phrased so the answers come back comparable, and then turned back on this yard, including the one of the seven Tuzla loses outright. 5 MIN CRAFT 01 SEP The date, and what moves it Refit duration answered by scope tier rather than by length, the difference between a quoted yard period and the season an owner actually loses, and the mechanisms that put a programme behind its contract date. 5 MIN FROM THE YARD 01 SEP The paper goes in before the plate Class makes its demands of the yard, not the owner, and most of them are for paper produced before anyone cuts steel. What falls due, who may take the readings, and what stops the job. 6 MIN CRAFT 01 SEP The hours before the topcoat Blasting takes days and fairing takes weeks, and the weeks are most of the quotation. What strip-to-substrate decides, and why a coating failure shows a season late. 5 MIN

AUGUST 2026 09 ENTRIES

FROM THE YARD 31 AUG Planning a yacht refit in Turkey The percentage everyone quotes applies to a total that is mostly not labour. What decides a yard period here is the passage, the agent, the class calendar and where the saving falls. 6 MIN CRAFT 31 AUG What three yards have to price Three quotes that cannot be compared are rarely the yards' fault. A yacht refit specification either fixes the verb, the standard and the return format, or it invites three readings of one vessel. 6 MIN FROM THE YARD 30 AUG Who employs the welder Tuzla yards share a waterfront and a labour pool. What separates a refit yard is how its trades are employed, and who is still answerable a year later. 6 MIN CRAFT 30 AUG When a yacht is worth refitting Repair, restoration and refit answer three different questions, and deciding which one a vessel actually needs comes before any yard, price or schedule. 6 MIN FROM THE YARD 30 AUG What the Tuzla cranes were built for A note on the commercial shipbuilding hardware a yacht yard inherits in Tuzla, what that hardware decides on its own, and what it still cannot do. 6 MIN CRAFT 28 AUG What yacht refitting actually involves, in order Why the number that moves a refit budget is almost never the work that was quoted, and almost always the work that was found. 6 MIN REFIT DIARY 08 AUG Forty-three metres, back to bare metal Why we take an aluminium hull to substrate rather than patch a coating that still looks 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 Why northern hulls winter in Tuzla A short note on the question we are asked most often by owners' representatives calling from northern Europe for the first time. 3 MIN FROM THE YARD 07 JUL A wider bay for the travel lift 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 — and the coating decision that quietly sets next season's fuel bill. 5 MIN FLEET 03 JUN Mirabella, redelivered A 47.9-metre Trinity, taken back to bare substrate over nine months, and handed back on the date agreed at contract signature. 6 MIN FROM THE YARD 02 JUN The stores moved next to the berth The part is on the shelf before the trade needs it. Everything about that sentence is a logistics decision, not a warehousing one. 4 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.