“Application and repairability, that’s why we chose Alexseal over Awlgrip,” explains Edwin Post about the three and a half year refit project on the 100-meter S/Y Attessa IV. The vessel started her life in 1999 as 91-meter Evergreen (Diana Yacht Design) but underwent an extensive transformation when purchased by billionaire Dennis Washington in 2007. The prep-work and application to cover 80 feet near the transom demanded a coatings system that would flawlessly blend with the existing dark blue hull. Post praised the Alexseal sales and support team adding, “Jeff Holland and Alex Sandas stand behind their products and are very helpful.” Continuous application on projects like these require coatings with a forgiving nature to repair gloss
imperfections. “She’s big… and long… we just could not afford a failure with the spray color or clear coat. Alexseal stands up better.”
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300 Feet and Counting
Alexseal is the Only Choice for Primers and Topcoat Finishes
The M/Y Scout is a 34m (112′) expedition style yacht originally built by Brookes Yachts in the UK in 1993. She has received a full mechanical and cosmetic refit in two separate phases, to include a full repaint with Alexseal primers and topcoats, at Thunderbolt Marine in Savannah, Georgia, USA. The third and final phase of this refit will include a 15-foot (4.5m) stern extension and full superstructure paint job in the fall of 2017.
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SINBAD Enjoys a Long-Awaited Refit with Alexseal
Launched in 1962 as a custom steel-hulled North Sea trawler, SINDBAD was designed and built to be an ice class vessel. Over 25 years after her transformation into a yacht-class vessel, she is undergoing a major refit at Front Street Shipyard in Maine with extensive upgrades and equipment replacement along with a whole new look provided by the complete Alexseal system.
Derecktor Shipyards Chooses Alexseal for Ambitious Sunseeker Refit
Vixen Sword Shines Again
Derecktor Shipyards has a history spanning nearly 70 years, and a name that has become synonymous with superior craftsmanship, technology and beauty. They have been recognized through the years as builders of luxury sailing and motor yachts along with high-speed ferries and innovative workboats constructed from steel, aluminum, wood, fiberglass and advanced composites. Today they operate three impressive facilities across the Eastern Seaboard of the United States in Florida, New York and Maine. These facilities are manned by hundreds of craftsmen and shipwrights helping to not only build new vessels but also maintain and refit old ones.
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Alexseal Wows Boat Builder Down Under
From the Boat Building Site comes this article by Chris Rayment of Queensland Australia’s Custom Boat Builders about Alexseal with full in-depth details on application and success.
Let’s talk about the Alexseal paint system.
Painting for boat builders comes somewhere at the end of all that fun construction work and can show it off or be a big pain in the backside. In custom building, most of the time we are applying filler and primer as we construct but the final topcoats are hopefully the show piece to all this hard work.
What to use???
Two pack marine paint choices are as wide varied as the alcohol we drink at the end of the work day (Jim Beam by the way for any sponsorship deals) but back to paints, supply is a big concern. If you want to use a certain brand and can’t get it due to no dealers in your area forget about it. These days most stuff is available everywhere, so what to use?
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Tender Shipyard and Alexseal Compliment the World’s Most Modern Yachts
By definition, tenders are small boats built to support larger motoryachts and are routinely used to make the connection between ship and shore for the transportation of people and goods. Modern tenders are often custom-built to the same luxurious standards as their motherships, and as the world’s superyachts have grown in size, luxury, and sophistication, so have the design and coatings of their tenders.
Since opening their doors in 2012, Tender Shipyard has manufactured over a dozen custom yacht tenders and have several new boats currently under construction. Philippe Cabon, a naval architect by trade, started Tender Shipyard and leads a team that handles all aspects of design and construction from their facility in Olonne sur Mer on the west coast of France. Tender Shipyard’s range of models is impressive, with many composite tender designs involving an infusion of polyester or carbon fiber, and varying in size up to 40 feet (12m). Each model incorporates unique features including retractable and height adjustable hardtops, along with different power options including outboard, inboard and jet drive. One can find boats from Tender Shipyards all around the world, accompanying many impressive yachts from renowned builders such as Benetti, Heesen, Lurssen and Sunrise Yachts. From their very beginning, Tender Shipyard was looking for a finish of the highest quality possible for these runabouts; a search which led them to choose the full product range of ALEXSEAL, including primers, fairing compounds and finish coatings. With continuing new developments in ALEXSEAL’s product lines, and expansion of our global distribution network, ALEXSEAL provides Tender Shipyard with the quality, advanced technology and product availability they need to compliment the most elite and stylish yachts in the world—many of which are also utilizing ALEXSEAL products.
Raising the Bar
Cantiere delle Marche Enjoys Alexseal’s Quality
Italian shipyard Cantiere delle Marche has been building unique and custom large motoryachts for many years, and has now integrated the Alexseal coatings system into their operations. Initial applications of Alexseal products were performed in the shipyard by applicators under the technical support guidance of Alexseal’s Dirk Ehmke. With great success on the initial tests, the decision to apply Alexseal to immediate projects throughout the shipyard was an easy choice.
Viking Yachts and Alexseal Work Toward Building a Better Boat Everyday
Over the last 50 years, Viking Yachts has risen to be a dominant force in U.S. production yacht circles and the company’s emphasis on quality and efficiency has played a key role in that ascension. Viking’s mission to deliver the best products on the market has also led to their application of Alexseal Yacht Coatings when an owner seeks a more unique or custom hull look over the traditional gelcoat color options. Viking first started using Alexseal topcoat several years ago when they decided to offer a wider color selection. As design trends have evolved and their in-house paint team became more familiar with Alexseal’s ease of use, more of Viking’s boats have been coated in Alexseal colors. After using gelcoat exclusively for the better part of five decades, approximately 50% of new Viking hulls are now being painted with Alexseal topcoat to achieve a more flawless, glossy and UV-resistant finish.
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“Cary Ali” Receives Awards for her Owners and Builder Alloy Yachts
We tip our hats and offer up a big congratulations to Alloy Yacht‘s latest splash Cary Ali. She has taken hold of the superyacht community and continues to leave onlookers and fellow superyacht owners breathless – not only by the amazing shimmer of her Alexseal topcoat – but by her continuous recognition and awards. Most recently Cary Ali won the Best Displacement Motoryacht below 500GT during the 2014 World Superyacht Awards. In addition to her latest honor, Cary Ali also won Best Exterior Styling & Design for a Displacement Motor Yacht 30-60 Meters at the 2014 Showboats Design Awards held in Austria this past February. During the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show she also received honors for the Best Motoryacht 24-40 Meters at the International Superyacht Society Awards.
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Excellence Lives Up to Her Name with an Alexseal Topcoat
Lyman-Morse Motoryacht “Excellence”
Elegant, comfortable and magnificent are words that can easily describe this 80’ (25 meter) Lyman-Morse luxury yacht, designed by well-known Setzer Yacht Architects. The name Excellence easily describes this yacht inside and out, either idling in the channel or cruising in the open seas, and although she is turning ten this year, her appearance and performance do not show her age one bit. This is true of her Alexseal topcoat as well. The dark blue hull on Excellence looks absolutely stunning in any climate condition, however, the really stunning aspect of her paint is that it was applied over five years ago by Hinckley Yachts in Southwest Harbor Maine. The retention of the brilliant glossy shine and all-weather barrier of this Alexseal paint job is simply one example of many vessels that enjoy years of lasting beauty and protection when they choose Alexseal as the coatings system for their vessel, either new or as a repaint.
