Hi, I'm Torsten Schmitz, the owner of Citrus Yachts.
Welcome to all of the video I like to show you around
our boats and our company to give you an impression.
How about Typekit?
We are here in the empty hall of a new Series
40, which will be launched in about three months from now.
That's about the time we built on a boat three to four months from this stage
on this boat just hit production about a week ago,
so we have to have the rubbing strikes we have already started to see
with the shrouds.
And we are now starting with the inner framework, which would be laminated
into the boat by a few sinks, which are special on our production here.
first of all, as you can see,
we have a full deck and hull combined already and this is done
before we put the first bulkhead in before we put any cable tubes in.
So all the join is totally visible
and it's laminated all the way through.
So we are structural wise, not talking off deck and any more.
It's the one piece because it's all laminated together.
And then only then we start with the controller
doesn't have quite the big, big roof opening, which we have here.
So we just not have
only the companion way to ring things and we can bring real big parts in
and the stops to make it easier for us with the bottom structure.
A few things I like to point out here, which also special.
first of all, we have 30 middle of giving form
at the top of the size, which brings strength and information.
And you might also be able to see
this epoxy packages, which you see here.
This is a technique we use on all the hidden areas
where parts are mounted for this are for the
any piece of the screws which attach to the wrapping spikes.
The good point on that is if you ever have a bit of damage on
something, all hands have to take something off.
You don't need to cut anything away is only to find the screws
if you can simply screw it out and throw it back in in the same position
because so much of the attachment behind is not falling apart.
Then there are a lot of
the strengthening parts and the second in the whole metal plate
where we put things through.
This is full, full laminated foot rail here, where the
the pleats screw through.
And yeah, it's all everything.
What you see here is maybe about two
or three times bigger than you would expect on other boats.
So this, for example, is a cut out which we have here.
That's a cut out from a 35
so smaller than this one from the engine compartment in the back.
This are about 45 layers of laminated
reinforced material in between.
So it's all quite solid.
This is due to the fact that we have a lot of customers who say worldwide,
but also our customers need to ask you a lot to say that Norway and Sweden,
they hit rocks from time to time was pretty much normal.
And normally no damage is done.
This is also due to the solid construction.
What you see here are form parts the first of them that will be much
more whole grit into the hull, which is strengthening the whole vote.
This is all laminated glass hybrid into the boat.
There will be beams on top here cross beams.
The skeleton, which goes over the key to recess, which you see here,
is also a specialty of 003 of our votes, with six to seven different
kill versions.
So this here is a twin keel, which means we have two kids.
This evolved the majority of both sweepers at the moment, 70% of them
easy for drying out and reduces the draft.
It makes the boat
go places where others can't because of reduced grass.
And this is where most customers go for.
Well, next to the GOP,
the vote, which we see here, is one of the main
raw materials our votes of, even if they are on GFP from the outside,
we spend about 8080 5% of our time working with wood
and do all the interior parts which you see in the vote.
What we have here is
arrest of a sapele tree.
You can still see the round area here.
This is the smallest dimension.
We get it at 65 millimeters.
The overall length of the tree of the use of the heart of the tree
is about 30 to 40 meters.
That would be unmanageable for us here to handle.
But the trick is we buy the whole tree, the whole lot and the whole length
and let it been covered in length and in the dimensions.
We want to have it. It will be dried.
It takes about one and a half to two years until we can use it.
But we get it in partitions
and as we do every little wooden part
inside the boat ourself, you find for about twelve to 14
boats or parts inside the boat out of the same tree.
So it's definitely the same color.
It's the same grain, it's the same structure.
And this is one of the overall quality points and our boats.
It's mainly the sapele mahogany at the moment for the entire year.
There are other choices.
But this is what we what we like most at the moment, and we also have teak
for the outside material or some Iroko, which is very,
very hard to look like material which is perfect for rubbing strikes.
And that's what we do from it.
So this is all to do a machine park here.
This is the big wooden from.
So cut it into smaller pieces outside and then they go.
So the machine can get to smaller parts which are used over there.
So we are in the so-called bench room here.
This is one part of the workshop bench room
because we are working on benches here.
The benches are all dedicated to the parts which are built here.
So you will find them all the materials which are used.
In this first phase here.
So we have all the scrolls
with all the machinery, we have all the attachment parts.
There's an exhaust machine built into this table and it's on wheels
so that we kind of up to the space which we have here or don't.
So this is one of the vacuum laminated parts we used and the boats are
aplenty, lots of different forms and models that makes the interior
quite modern and nice and nothing to hurt yourself on.
And this is a tool needed for that.
So this gives the form that's a vacuum back.
And the sticky tape underneath
and we put in place lots of layers which are thin enough to bend in this way,
and they are top with with glue and then put under this back.
The actual pump on top.
And after the and the vacuum space with the same pressure we were until the
glue inside is
dry and then we can take off the pot and use that for interior
with a different part of the wood workshop here.
This is the navigation table which has been built here.
And here we see also the illuminated parts.
These are quite complex paths.
This year, for example, is one piece of wood
which comes around here, both around here and there.
It's all lovely, laid out of lots of different layers and put together
this navigation table top table hinged here.
This is a flap.
Normally there would be a metal push lock in there, but my guys didn't like it
and I wasn't there that day, so they decided to make a little wooden
knob, some size, which fits with the grain and fits into the table.
Here we're here in the place where doors and bookends are produced
and book Let's go together with us because
we'll cut outs, which we make out of for both hands.
We'll come back as a door into the book, and this is made to match the grain
of the wool caps through the door out of the book and again.
The doors are
quite substantial, you have 30 mm marine plywood here, and also the outside
protection of the door is six mm, which will be glued on top here.
These doors will be built into the ball caps and will be attached
with all the slots and door handles before we put the Bearcats into the boat.
This is done because it's wood
and wood can always have half a millimeter here and half a millimeter there,
so we fix the Wildcats with the doors in place until the vote.
And then the book has
will be fixed into the vote and if they are laminated, that's fine.
But into the vote, the doors came back out and we'll come back here
to wait for the finishing vanishing before they finally get into the boat
and they just slot in and everything clicks and all this final.
So we have some more complex parts here.
These are parts of the city, so you find your armrests of the city here.
It goes around the corner downstairs.
And for that reason, this goes around here as well.
But it's also part of the galley here, a lot of drawers inside and cables
because there will be microwaves and recess for an stainless steel frame,
which hopefully the roof support which we have here.
So this are quite complex parts of the boat which are prepared here
to go into the boat.
Well, there's a nice feel to all the woodwork here because it's
all quite massive.
Also, our veneer, which we use,
is at least 0.9 to 1.5 mm.
So it's not necessary for us.
We can work with zero, four and three like normal today,
but then you can't varnish on anything anymore.
And we reckon that our boats might get 100 years old
and then you probably need to vanish and find things again .
And then it's good if you have more substantial veneer on top.
So we are in a vanishing shop here.
This is part of the carpentry.
All the parts which we build come at one stage here,
but just the smaller parts because the big bulk
had some things of varnish inside the boat.
Special thing here is that everything.
What you see here is varnish with some brush.
It's not spray painted.
If you spray painting, then all the typical wooden pools
which you have here will be a nightmare to spray because they will get bubbles.
That's not always the brush.
If you paint with the brush, then you still have the full
feeling of the vote.
It's not a plastic covered surface, which looks like wood.
It's water and it feels like wood.
It's a very strong on the ground varnish.
The average is very hard wearing and on top.
We use a kind of a box product
which gives a very smooth surface
and very important for us, the customer itself.
Can we work it easily accessible and scratch?
It just takes a little wax on a on a cloth and after 40 minutes,
it's dry again and it's the same stuff as like before.
But this is more of our GAAP shop, actually.
Most of it is outsourced today, but we do some special parts
here like the rotor blades,
which we don't trust others to do.
And some substantial parts of this, for example.
There's the underneath of the shroud, which will be laminated into the boat.
So this is about 15 kilos, which I have on my hand here
17 millimeter massive laminate,
which would be laminated with 20 millimeters more inside the hull
and then bolted through to half the wreck attached.
And the strength into that,
so this is this is a rather stark switch off into the
into the rudders, into the house, which we've seen also
quite substantial.
That's a very special alloy,
which will be wrapped in GAAP to get a good attachment point
and then be laminated into the other halves.
We can see that here is an example of the.
This is also a stainless steel pot for the half.
Most of our boats have here.
We already see the wrapping of the roving around the metal parts,
which will shrink onto the surface, and then this will be laminated
into the half sticks,
which we see here.
The surfaces will be widened to have a good flowing surface.
So this will be all glued together.
And after that, we make a hole from the top
to some expanding foam in it, and that makes it all watertight.
And I'm very strong in solid faith.
So this is now nearly finished rudder, the rudder stock
is laminated and glued into the foam.
It's form filled and the important
parts are over laminated from the outside,
like the fit here and the leading edge to give more strength into it.
And this is intuitive.
It's quite
heavy, Portimao, but a very substantial part.
What we see here is the rudder for 4022.
That's the reason we have this little foil on top here.
This foil is made if you dry out that it doesn't speed into the ground,
but gives the boat
a little support at the back, which is rather played, which we have.
So we have it on in
production here, it's also 40, but not the empty shell anymore.
We have about three weeks in production here and a lot of things
are already done, a lot of things which are hidden afterwards.
So we have the full floor frame, which is laminated into the
how the side frames, which are laminated into the hull.
And we also recognize a few things which we have seen early on.
This, for example, if a substantial block
out of glass fiber, which we have seen over there,
which holds the shrouds offerings from the work
force, from the record for the shrouds into the hull.
And this is laminated into the hull and connected to the big frame work,
which goes crosswise through the vault and over the cue, which we can see.
Here are the bulk of glass fibers into the hull
every piece of wood which we put into the boat,
which is touching the deck for the whole of the last
five us into the hole to take all these things.
Also, you see the boat some of.
This is due
to the construction wise gluing which we do between them.
So they all work as a framework inside the boat,
and it's like a skeleton keeps on giving into the boat .
It's not like other boats where it's just filled in with some single flex
into some gaps for the city.
But it's all single stand laminated glass, five of them to give all the strength
that no doors opening or not opening any more, that nothing is squeaking.
But you have very substantial, stable boat.
We are in our smallest model here.
The zero is three.
No, this is a boat which is due to be finished in about two weeks and we will be
it's all finished underneath it, still under protection.
So here are some, some protectors to to cover the woodwork.
But it's still all the varnished surfaces
underneath
all the ceilings and all the cabling is in
and we about to fit all the last parts into the boat
because one of the building details, we are especially proud of.
All the ceilings we fit in are real wood
and they have a full side fitting.
It's a one piece ceiling.
There's a full size fitting,
which means all the gaps around here are exactly one millimeter.
They go around all the areas here and you have exactly one tribe.
Even our best guys can only do that on good days.
Well, here, let's say the steel pots on the boat off added that all this
for the old build for this ferry boat and also they are very massive.
So we have a big protection at the bow here, which is eight mm
goes under the waterline.
If you bump into somewhere, you don't have it in the ship
coming out there and the rest is for the wreck.
The two photos, which most of our boats have the anchor
which goes through the slot into the bow and is fitted to fix guardrail,
which will give good security and handhold when you are on board.
While this is all technical workshop, we prepare all the technical parts here.
It's more or less all built as plug and play, so we have a wall,
but all the electric for the navigation corner comes in and is screwed
in one go and then is connected to the rest of the boat.
In the end, this is all labeled all the way through.
Each and every cable has a label to what it belong and what it is.
They're all tuned.
Couple of cables.
So even if you have some water ingress somewhere, you won't suffer
on the copper cables vanishing by corrosion
or the labeling you find back in our owner's hand.
Folks, this is about 120 pages today
that only 25 pages just alone for the electrical electronics,
there was a drawings for you to understand.
Easy explained.
But also that was a real building drawings for the builders platform
so that every technical can find its way around, and all the rest is all
labeled and numbered so that everybody can find its way.
This is our construction department here.
Here, all the 3D drawings all made.
So we have all the all the boats with all the equipment, all the wiring,
all the pipe work on on 3D in the computer,
and we can work with our customers on the special ideas.
There's no vote, which is exactly the same,
and there are some quite strange ideas which customers have
and some special equipment they want to have.
And we always have to find a way to incorporate that
and to make it in the way that it's nice.
And for that, all the ports and the computer so that we can play around
and see if that really fits what the customer wants to have on board.
So this is also part of the work cooperation
for all of the 3D drawings which we have that goes to these rulings.
We have some documentation for each and every part which we built inside the boat
and all the measurements, all the tips for building it all inside.
Guys are working the parts was it,
and then they might find some small details when I think there's
something missing or not absolutely clear, and I correct that.
And then it goes back into the
operation office here and it will be will be changed here.
And then for the next part of the next put and build, the map goes down
with the right measurements and every detail is included.
So here we have some coverage for our customers, for the different projects.
And as we have lots of customers who come from foreign countries
or want to bring us things which they want to fitted into their boats.
So we have
one covered from a customer from the UK
who has all the cutlery and all the parts which we've already brought
because they may come by our plane for the final take over.
Well, this is a third.
There is 40 we see today in production.
It's already rolled out of the workshop because we have more natural
light here and it's nice and summery outside.
So this is nearly finished and will be completed in about a week from now.
So the Russians are already in place and have fixed and a lot of things
which we have seen early on of being seen here in the finished state.
So we have the navigation corner here, which we've seen in a very
production stage.
We have set little mock here for the tail table,
which comes out here.
We have the draws from the galley, which has the stainless steel
support, with the roof support on top here from the microwave.
In this case, oh, this is about how it looks when it's near to be finished.
So the last touches to be done now.
Thank you for watching our video.
I hope you enjoyed the tour through the yard.
And if you like to find out more about our company,
about our products or see more videos, have a look to our website.
Hope to see you soon. Bye.