A gentlemans yacht.
Athol washing the dishes.
A nice interior
CKD Boats cc was formed out of what is best called a parent company called Commercial Lumber cc,which in its self was formed one night at anchor in Trinidad, when I realised that the wide group of exotic timbers being grown and sold locally,would make a nice base for a timber sales company when and if I ever got back to Cape Town, where I had just sailed from on, my Peter Ibold design Endurance 37 named Ocean Cloud.What happened later was the growth of a very small but special timber sales shop,both local and imported timbers,our stock list just grew and grew,we moved into plywoods,regular and bending plys, epoxies and other glues as time went by.
The timber species were based on marine use to start but soon moved to local commerce and building types,some being:
Pine,Meranti,Ash,Beech,Teak (plantation too) Kahya Mahogany,Honduras Mahogany,Karri,Blackwood,Red Cedar,its this last species that was chosen to fit out two Shearwater 45 yachts that Frazer Marine built,seen in these pictures with a rather dark red stain,the real colour of this type of Cedar is a pale pink,the latin name is Cedrela Mexicana Roem,also known as Spanish or Mexican Cedar.
As time moved on we became suppliers to such boat yards as,Stremple Marine,Southern Wind Shipyard,Robertson and Caine,Fortuna Marine,St Francis Marine,Matrix,Longmeadow Marine,Wilbur Ellis Co,Portnet,SA Navy,Sterling Yachts,Sentinal Boats,plus many others,our specialist selection and understanding of how to cut teak decking saw that we supplied a very large segment of the marine trade when teak decking was involved,we still undertake this work today and while our timber stocks now are more appropriate to our CKD kits,we do still import specialist timbers to order.
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