Slideshow - Building a New 17ft Sandy Point V-Hull

When we say "hand made" we aren't referring to some guy holding a chopper gun in his hands. We refuse to use chopped glass. Everything you see is alternating layers of hand laid biaxial and woven roving for strength, durability and lighter weight.

Why do you see wood proudly displayed in photos of the Tyndall 17 Sandy Point when every major boat factory is crowing about high tech plastics and honeycombed this and that? Two main reasons. First, all our boats have custom interiors and wood gives us the flexibility to do that. We start out by interviewing customers about how they plan to use their boats and then help them design a unique vessel just for them.

Want a custom bow casting deck? Want it recessed so the kids or older riders will feel stable and safe? We can do that. In fact, we'll build you practically anything you want - you'll never, ever be just another guy driving Brand X again. And in three years when you decide you wished you'd ordered a stern casting deck, you don't have to finance a new boat. We can just easily cut in and add that feature. Why? Because you bought a boat made with good old wood and traditional resin.

The second reason we use traditional resin and traditional wood construction is that should something ever happen to your boat - it can be fixed! Break a plastic stringer on some production boats and it may as well be totaled. Super thin high-tech vacuumed bagged chopped hulls are interesting from a technological standpoint but once they crack from stress, they'll never be the same. Do you want your boat to be just as highly depreciable and disposable a commodity as today's laptop computers have become? I wouldn't.

In contrast, last year a customer brought us a Sandy Point that rolled off its trailer and down an embankment at speed on a highway entrance ramp after a blowout. We cut out a section of compromised decking around the center console, re-glassed the deck area, sprayed down new spatter gelcoat, faired scrapes and repainted a section of hull, replaced the man's outboard hood and had him back fishing two weekends later. Try that with a high-tech boat.

Tyndall Marine - we make them like they used to.

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