The shipwrights at Viking Mullica do it right – one boat at a time. Great attention to detail and careful hand-crafted workmanship go into every Valhalla Boatworks center console. Above: After being pulled from its mold, a Kingston Grey Valhalla 33 hull (No. 128) is transported onto its custom cradle.
Proud to be building a better boat every day, the Viglass team for the Valhalla 33 takes a minute for a photo. From left to right: Juan Ortiz, Carlos Rodriguez, Julio Espichan, Viglass Supervisor William Fabian and Foreman Huberto Flores.
Concepcion Medina works on hull No. 127, using a sanding block to fair the gelcoat of the transom bustle’s feature line.
More handy work. At left is a V-33’s deck liner that is being prepared for resin infusion. A skin coat is applied before this closed-molding boatbuilding process. Right: Luis Lara scuffs the area between the gelcoat (white surface) and edge of the skin coat (red area) that has already been applied. The roughed-up surface increases the strength of the bond.
Above: Leadman David Romero, yellow shirt, and Juan Pavon use a laser level to scribe a straight line across the transom before bottom painting. Below: Later, David applies a narrow strip of painting tape to the waterline.
