STP HAS THE HUGE ADVANTAGE OVER ANY OTHER ‘CONTROLLED’ OR CLOSED YARD IN AS MUCH AS THE CLIENT CAN SEE WHAT THEY ARE PAYING FOR
react quicker to customer needs so we are establishing our own machine shop overseen by a qualified toolmaker who is also a qualified yacht engineer. Plus, as agents of Octo Marine, for us 2020 will also be about establishing and growing the water treatment services for yachts.”
“But why choose Palma?”one might ask. The answers slip off Critchley’s tongue: A great place for crew during big projects, great social yachting scene, good weather, no mistrals! But also, Palma is a yacht specialist hub where the pool of yacht knowledge collects. The TPA Scheme, which permits yachts under temporary admission to do repairs and maintenance without paying 21% VAT is another draw. “Plus,” he adds, “the main yard has no fees for using local contractors and the capacity of the local shipyards is impressive and getting bigger.”
METAL WORK/WELDING Ruben Doñaque, also known as The Welding Workshop,provides specialised welding, metal repairs and fabrication in Palma de Mallorca. 2019 was just as busy for Doñaque as it ever is with the usual punctual peaks just before the charter season began. He’s hoping for a rise in business over the coming 12 months. He says, “Spain just makes sense for owners and captains now. It makes financial sense and the depth of experienced workers here is enormous.
For us winter is usually the best season and maybe moving into early spring with last minute jobs - part of the natural annual business life cycle.”
CARPENTRY Next stop - the carpentry workshops where Jon Winstanley at Modesty and Brendon Jost at CABBS are carving a living out of wood.
Modesty was formed in 1999 by Phil Spear and Jon Winstanley and is one of Mallorca’s leading yacht carpentry companies, specialising in all manner of decking, furniture and interior decoration projects.
Business in 2018/19 was up says Winstanley due to an increase in work in general. “I think most people were very busy,” says Winstanley, “and we also pushed quite hard on the sales side. We were also very busy outside of Mallorca so this also increased our normal range of clients.”
To keep the bottom line figures buoyant, Modesty is working on various fronts aiming to increase the work load, but also extend the breadth of capabilities. Winstanley has not so much noticed a change in projects he’s worked on over the past 2-3 years but the type of project and the clients that approach him have: “There are still
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the same projects as always in Mallorca but as we have grown larger and stronger we do not have the need to take on all projects regardless. As we have spread throughout Europe, and further, we can afford to be a little more choosy about what sort of projects and clients we want to get involved with.” His plans for 2020 include innovation, new equipment, recruitment and moving into a new specialist area... so watch this space.
In terms of advantages over other Med refit choices, Winstanley has this to say; “STP has the huge advantage over any other ‘controlled’ or closed yard in as much as the client can see what they are paying for and can have a far greater control over both quality and cost. Far too many of the yards in the Med end up billing vessels ridiculously high or strange costs and the clients are getting more and more tired of this. It’s the ‘they are rich so they can afford to pay whatever’ attitude that so many adopt. You can accuse the majority of the superyacht owners of many things
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