The teak deck of a boat acts as a business card: Manufactured by hand from high-quality Burma teak wood and adapted to the individual form of the boat. Unfortunately teck decks often have many listed compliants, unless the teak deck comes from the production of Wolz Nautic in the Frankish Gaukönigshofen in Germany.

Accuracy is a must!
The individual deck components must be accurate in the entire length, however two or three millimetres difference is acceptable, although the aim is to have less than a millimetre. “With metal this default would not be acceptable, but for wood an accuracy of less than a millimetre is a very demanding resolution”, describes Michael Wolz. In addition, the bends must correspond exactly to the original, which represents a challenge with wood. For this reason the templates are transported back to the shipyard, even those with errors are added to the template`s plywood as they react to environmental influences such as humidity and temperature, which can lead to inaccuracies in the measured values.

Wolz Nautic was looking for a measurement system, which could be flexibly used on the boat and which could measure also the length and transverse curvature of the deck with the required accuracy. After a detailed test phase the API Laser tracker was selected. The final deciding factor for the Professional laser Tracker was its accuracy, its great transportability as it is so light weight. This was essential for Wolz Nautic so that the Laser Tracker can be easily transported whether it be by car or by aircraft.