29m | M/Y Three Point 4

While a lot of the more intensive work we undertake at Amsterdam Yacht Service revolves around refit, repair and maintenance of steel and aluminium vessels and their systems, our team has the flexibility to tackle pretty much any material. For one, we have our in-house carpentry workshop to take care of all things wood, and of course our onsite engineering team are ideally suited to solving more complex technical, mechanical and engineering issues that yachts and other vessels face.

But our skill set extends further, to the world of GRP. That was ably demonstrated this winter when we took in a 29-metre Maiora called Three Point 4 for various works. “We made some polyester repairs to the GRP exhausts and filled in some redundant through-hull fittings holes in the GRP hull,” says Robert Binnekade, Managing Director at AYS. “It was a fairly big GRP repair job overall.”

The team undertook other works as well, demonstrating the depth of its services, including repairing the hydraulic rams that control the yacht’s trim tabs and more routine maintenance tasks such as replacing the antifouling. “The GRP aspect was particularly interesting for us,” Binnekade concludes, “because although that’s not a big expected market for us, it was nice to work on it and also nice to show it’s another material our inhouse team can tackle with confidence!”