When an owner calls us to redo a crew mess or a wheelhouse, he often asks almost apologetically, as if it were a luxury. We don’t see it that way. On a fishing boat, interior fit-out is a safety matter.<\/p>\n
On trips lasting several days, the quality of rest directly determines how alert the crew is when handling heavy gear on a moving deck.<\/p>\n
A berth badly oriented to the boat’s motion, a noisy mess, a temperature you can’t control, a galley where you can’t cook a proper meal in a rough sea: each of these details eats into recovery. Over a season, they add up to less attentive crews and higher turnover.<\/p>\n
The wheelhouse is where the skipper spends most of his time. Yet it tends to deteriorate by accumulation: a screen added here, a box screwed on there, cables running along the bulkheads, a seat that no longer matches the height of the console.<\/p>\n
Our work covers four areas. First, visibility<\/strong>: raising the wheelhouse, recutting the windows, removing blind spots over the working deck. Then ergonomics<\/strong>: a console designed so the essential controls fall to hand without leaving the seat.<\/p>\n Next, electronics integration<\/strong>: we flush-mount the screens and run the wiring through dedicated trays that stay accessible for maintenance. Finally, sound and thermal insulation<\/strong>, which makes a radical difference to fatigue on a long passage.<\/p>\n On vessels such as the Adriana, we stripped out the mess and the galley entirely and rebuilt them in custom joinery.<\/p>\n Custom work is not a sales pitch here: in a tight, irregular space, standard furniture wastes twenty to thirty percent of the usable room. A worktop designed for the space, closed storage that holds when the boat heels, built-in appliances, comfortable seating: for the same floor area, the mess becomes usable.<\/p>\n A less glamorous side, but just as decisive. We regularly rebuild complete washroom units \u2014 toilet, washbasin, drains \u2014 with smooth, washable surfaces.<\/p>\n A decent washroom on board is not a luxury on a boat carrying four or five men for several days. It is a condition for hiring, and skippers who struggle to put a crew together know it.<\/p>\n The advantage of these projects is that they don’t touch the boat’s structure. They can therefore be slotted into a planned haul-out, alongside a statutory survey or a bottom job.<\/p>\n We prepare the components in the workshop while the boat is still fishing, which greatly reduces downtime. It is often the best window for this kind of upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Refitting the living spaces is not a whim. On long fishing trips, crew fatigue is a measurable risk factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refit-modifications-en"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3410,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastipeche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The mess and the galley<\/h2>\n
Washrooms and hygiene<\/h2>\n
Work that fits into a scheduled haul-out<\/h2>\n