Deck and curved stairway

A main deck and a curved guest stairway laid in teak, with clean margins held against the gelcoat throughout. The stairway is the difficult element: a flight that curves as it descends, where every tread and riser has to be laid in teak and tied back into the run of the main deck without a break in the visual language.

Carrying a deck onto a curved stair means resolving two geometries at once — the flat plane of the deck and the three-dimensional sweep of the steps — while keeping the margins continuous across both. The line where teak meets gelcoat is where that work shows: it has to stay crisp and even along the deck, down the curve of the stair and around every tread, with no wavering and no ragged closes. That is what separates a fitted deck from a laid one.

The finished result reads as a single continuous surface that flows from the main deck down the guest stairway, margins clean against the gelcoat the whole way. Practical circulation on board, executed with the precision of cabinetwork.