Your boat's interior serves as your home-away-from-home while you're cruising. The use of fine joinery will enhance the ambiance of your vessel's accommodations, adding visual impact and beauty. At the same time, well-done joinery will make your boat's interior more durable and functional.

Fine joinery starts with good wood. The traditional use of mahogany, teak, and cedar is now joined by other choices, such as jatoba. These woods are not only attractive, but they are sturdy and rot-resistant.

The use of joinery techniques such as dovetails and mortise and tenons adds structural integrity to woodwork. The close-fitting, interlocking seams and joints are stronger and less likely to pull apart or warp; they will also hold a finish better.

On the vessel's interior, furnishings such as cabinets, shelves, settees, and navigation tables can be transformed from utilitarian pieces to works of art with the addition of scrollwork, inlays, and moldings. On the exterior, fine joinery can add functionality and attractiveness to hatch covers, combings, and skylights.