StrayDog BoatWorks IS Robert Ayliffe, Friends and Associates.

We bring a quarter of a century of experience with many hundreds of clients to your choice of Plans, Products and Projects.

Drawing on that experience can provide help, should you want it, with choosing the design, build and especially fit out of your boat to best suit your dreams.

We can advise on equipment choice, and source spars and sails and help source or make unusual custom bits.

We can often arrange professional building of your boat to any stage, and making of components such as centre boards and rudder assemblies, should you require that.

We can advise on restoration projects.

We can help you sell your boat and we can help organise insured shipping of it to any place in the world.

We prefer to use Boat Craft Pacific Products (over thirty years of development in Australia and the Pacific.) including the Bote Cote Epoxy Range of coatings, adhesives and modifiers. We also use and recommend the Australian developed water based Aqua Cote water based polyurethane painting system.

Especially, we try to put you in touch with fellow builders in your area, so you can share your triumphs (and occasional setbacks...!!) along the way, directly and through our forums.

Bruce Kirby's Norwalk Islands Sharpies range of plans and kits for his legendary ply wood epoxy composite Norwalk Islands Sharpies world wide.

Iain Oughtred's exquisite clinker plywood range of plans and kits in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Paul Fisher of Selway Fisher's vast range of clinker plywood and stitch and glue plywood epoxy composite plans and precut kits in Australia and the Pacific area.

Derek Kelsall's range of plywood epoxy composite catamarans in Australia and the Pacific area.

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Putting the ad up for 6 months is Au$200. That covers the web guys time putting it up. You or we provide digital pix. if we do we charge another flat rate of $50.00. If we need to scan your pix from negatives or paper photographs, we charge an additional fee of $50 for up to ten photographs.

If your boat sells for over 40,000 as a result of our direction, then there would be a 7.5% commission. More time goes into this stuff than you might imagine.

If it sells for less than that, as a result of our direction, it would be a 10% commission. Thats because it takes the same time to convince people for less return!!

You also supply an inventory list and condition statement, as well as anecdotes around the life of the boat. Pictures with people, especially families in them are good.
We will never 'hype' the boat in order to get a sale.

If we think its crappy, or wildly over priced we will say so, but we will also suggest ways that it may be rectified, if we believe it can be.

Robert Ayliffe