About us
About us
Who are we?
Samurai Shipwrights was founded by Shodai Shintani who is a Japanese and a qualified shipwright based on the Gold Coast. He is strongly passionate about wood and handmade crafts that brings truly high-standard craftmanship and provides professional quality service in the boat building industry.
We are mobile shipwrights that travel to anywhere you are between Brisbane and Tweed.
Our Mission : Keeping old wooden boats afloat on the bay till next century
We have seen a lot of really sad condition of old wooden boats such as half sunk boats, never been looked after boats on moorings which some of beautiful australian maritime history are dying these days. Spinner (in the photo) was one of them in Sydney harbour was nearly about to cut down by previous owner and Shodai found her on online and decided to save her life. Spent lots of time restoring on her but it was absolutely worth it as he had so much precious time on the bay with this 1920 built wooden boat. what is more, after more than 100 years of her life she is still afloat on Moreton bay today and making great memories with her new owner.
We are also obsessed with " Classic "
“Classic” is our key theme which are classic wooden boats, classic cars and classic surfboards (as photos shown). Clinker dinghy (Hinata) and the surfboard are all hand built by Shodai. Also an old Landcruiser 1983 hj47 was resprayed by him as well. No words needed to describe how much we are into old classic style.
