Welcome to Ashbreez Boatworks in Anchorage! Below are some of our current and recent projects.

1996 Bayliner 3258 Avanti

There is a growing "restoration/renovation renaissance" of fiberglass boats across the country and this project is an example. This is a  major renovation project on a 1996 Bayliner 3258, pictured below. Many people have the same loyalty to their fiberglass boats as wooden boat lovers do.  Projects on this vessel include a new cabin door, some window replacements and repair, hull gelcoat repairs, transom core replacement, new engine stringers and side shelves, swimstep repair, transom door modifications, bottom paint, hull buffing and some additional interior projects. New electronics, fuel management system, etc. were installed by Jordan Morse of Polar Marine Systems (polarmarinesystems.com).

As you'll see in the before pictures below, the transom core , engine stringers, and engine compartment side shelves were completely saturated and rotten.  Again, Joel's experience and skills in composite boat building came into use in a major way.  As you'll see, new stingers were built from scratch, as were new shelves and transom core, all of which were coated, glassed, primed and gelcoated.

Fish-Rite 18

A customer contacted us through the website, asking if Ashbreez could zolatone the interior of his Fish-Rite 18 skiff.  We said, "Sure; No problem!" He is making his own floorboards, so they are not present in the pictures.  This project was completed in 2 days, including prepping, priming and painting.

Flying Boat? Well, parts of one, anyhow!

Yes, the Widgeon parts arrived at the Ashbreez shop in late December and were worked on during early January.  The owner has been working on this project at his home and had a variety of parts to be painted. After he saw Joel's work, including the Yamaha 225 cowling repair (described below), he asked Joel to prime and paint the ailerons, flaps, wing floats, interior floorboards and numerous other items.  Check out the highlights!

Update! Interior Instrument Panel Dash for Bayliner Motoryacht is installed

This is the first of several projects on a Bayliner Motoryacht.  In order to accomodate several new electronics, a custom-made dash panel needed to be created.  As you can see, it isn't just a "box".  Joel's skills working in wood and fiberglass as a composite boatbuilder really came into play as he took both mediums and made a dash that is contoured to its location on the vessel.

Above, on the left, a frontal view of the instrument dash with the instrument positions drawn.  On the right is a side view of the panel.  At this stage, multiple coats of primer have been applied.

Interior Floorboards for Aluminum Cabin Cruiser

New floorboards are proving to be popular items!  Below, are custom-buit interior floorboards, color matched to a tile that the customer provided, as this was the color they desired in their 32-foot aluminum cabin cruiser that they are continuing to refurbish.  Patterns were made on-site, at the owner's location, and then fabrication occured at our shop.

In the upper-left photo, the hardwood floorboards have been cut out and initially treated.

In the upper-middle and upper-right photos, the final coating has been applied. There were a number of floorboards manufactured for this project and these photos are a sampling.

In the lower-left photo, one can see the sound insulation that was installed on the bottom of each floorboard.

Yamaha 225 cowling repair

Sometimes when friends try to help you while you are busy tending to other matters, "things happen".  In this case, a friend was at the helm during docking and repeatedly hit the dock with the motor cowling, resulting in a vertical fracture.  Replacement cowlings are not cheap!  So Joel, as part of the refurbishment of the Alumaweld 26+ highlighted below, repaired the fracture, so much so that the owner thought Joel had gone out and bought a new cowling.  I thought ti deserved its own highlight, and so here it is...

26' +Alumaweld Refurbishment

In the photos above, you can see the fracture and dock rash that occurred due to the impact.  In the middle picture, the repair completed, and on the far right-repair completed with new factory decals installed.

Follow along as Ashbreez Boatworks refurbishes a 1998 26' + Alumaweld. (The "plus" being the additional length due to the motors and motor platform.).  This project includes: extensive preparation prior to the full exterior, two-tone repaint with new pinstriping and graphics on the hull; primer and Zolatone on the exterior cabin, aft cockpit, and decks; new hardwood floorboards that are sealed, primed and top coated with a tough exterior finish, installation of a Wallas Diesel heater for the cabin; installation of a fuel gauge sending unit that will show fuel levels on the GPS; new Airride captain's and co-helm chairs, all new exterior hardware, navigation lights (and their proper placement to meet USCG regluations), repair of engine cowlings, and new stainless steels skegs for the twin motors.  Practically a new boat!  Feel free to follow along as we share the various stages of work on our site.

Below are several "before" shots, as it appeared coming into our shop.

Preparation:What follows is a slideshow overview of the preparation involved.  Each slide has a caption to explain what was occuring at the time of the photo. As you will see, this is a well-used 13-year-old boat that has been trailered extensively to various fishing grounds over the years.  It is frequently launched from Deep Creek and also fishes the waters of Resurrection Bay.  So, there is a lot of "road rash" on the bow from trailering and "gaff/hook rash" around the cockpit from fishing. All of the rash, each and every ding, was sanded, filled, and faired.  You wil also see the extensive taping and covering that is needed in order to paint the hull, cabin, decks, and cockpit.

Priming underway...The cabin and decks have their final primer coat and the hull fairing and priming is underway.

New Floorboards

The original floorboards were rotting and new ones were needed.  These boards should last much longer, given the treatment they underwent prior to installation.



Finishing begins... As you can see, the final finishing has begun.  The boat has been painted, floorboards installed and the finishing touches are beginning to happen.  

Ropework highlighted...The aft cockpit handrails previously had pipe insulation wrapped with electrical tape to cover the bare, often wet and cold, handrails.  Those were removed and Joel, using his ropework skills, hand-tied rope to each handrail, followed by multiple coats of varnish.

Project is completed...As you will see in the following slide show, the work commissioned on "Billy Bob" is complete. 

And "BillyBob" sees daylight for the first time since refurbishment... "BillyBob" moves out of the shop, in the mid-December light, in the hands of its owners, ready to face many new adventures in the near future.

A couple of more photos... on the left you can see the reflection of the pegboard in the final finish. On the right, the rear view of the finished dash which highlights the curves and contours that will mate with the receiving location on the Bayliner.  Again, this was created from a small pile of wood, fiberglass, and epoxy!

22' C-Dory Repairs

The left picture above shows the anchor damage; the one on the right is post-repair

The left picture above is a close-up of the hole caused by the tiedown strap while trailering; the picture on the right is post-repair.