Introduction

Founder Foreword

Victor Aspey.

After a studying a BSc (Hons) Degree in Maritime Studies specialising in Leisure Boating and being brought up in a boat mad family I began my career in the City of London within Marine Insurance. City commuting was not for me so I left to be a sailing instructor. I became particularly interested in Catamarans after skippering one trans-Atlantic through a well documented storm in October 1987. I started my first business in chartering and selling modern sailing catamarans, a business I sold, and I am pleased to say it still flourishes today. I joined as a Sales Director for a prestigous brand of sailboats but left to start my own business again selling a variety of marine products. One such product was PVC Synthetic Teak and I soon hired someone to make panels from my garage in 2008. Dedicated premises soon followed and expansion alongside other small but successful business ventures. PVC Materials were supplied by most of the leading manufacturers but in 2018 I formed a distribution company of marine flooring and decking products to fitters. This led in turn to investing in tooling and a partnership with a pvc factory in UK producing pvc decking materials to our own specifications. We set out to take control of quality issues from manufacture to fitting. The products set out to produce a seamless quality customer experience from raw material, deck fabrication and fitting procedures. 

“Why are boat cockpits so boring or require so much maintenance” I wondered especially on the vast cockpits of sailing catamarans. My Deckfab brand sets out to address that and make life just that little more pleasurable.