Custom teak boarding steps

Bespoke teak boarding steps for guest access, built to suit one vessel’s freeboard and boarding arrangement rather than adapted from a standard unit. The treads are laid in teak with caulked plank seams and mitred margins, and the steps carry an integrated storage compartment closed on stainless hinges — practical boarding access resolved as a finished piece of joinery.

Boarding steps have to answer the specific geometry of the boat: the height from the waterline or the quay, the width available, the angle that makes them safe and comfortable to use. Building them bespoke means the rise and going are set to suit the vessel exactly, so the steps feel natural underfoot rather than improvised. The caulked treads give grip and match the deck; the mitred margins frame each step cleanly; the stainless-hinged compartment turns the volume under the steps into usable stowage.

Workshop-fabricated to the vessel’s own dimensions, the finished steps combine safe, comfortable access with the finish quality of the deck itself — a functional necessity built to the same standard as the yacht’s furniture, and detailed so it looks original to the boat.