Deck around curved seating

A deck laid around a curved cockpit bench, with the plank runs swept to follow the seating and the fittings and mooring rings integrated flush into the teak. Rather than run straight planks up to a curved feature and cut them off, the layout follows the curve, so the timber flows with the shape of the cockpit.

A swept layout is more demanding than a straight one at every stage. The planks have to be set out on radiating lines that stay parallel to the bench, the margins around the seating held even through the curve, and every deck fitting — rings, sockets, drains — let in so that its top sits flush with the surface and the plank work closes neatly around it. Each of those flush details is a small joinery problem solved so that nothing stands proud to catch a line or an eye.

The finished deck wraps the seating in continuous teak, with fittings that disappear into the surface and margins that hold their line around the curve. It is the kind of layout that looks effortless precisely because the geometry underneath it was anything but.