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Composite Work

Built for
unusual work.

Not every composite project fits neatly into a category.

Nautilus works across surf, marine, and specialty fabrication — from traditional hand-laminated fiberglass to carbon fiber, vacuum bagging, and one-off composite parts.

Some projects arrive with drawings. Others arrive with a broken part and the question, “can you make this work?” Both are welcome.

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Surfboards & Surfcraft

Fiberglass and epoxy laminations, color work, carbon reinforcement, vacuum-bagged construction, and specialty surfcraft.

Glassing · Ding repair · Fin systems · Color work
02

Marine

Fiberglass repair, structural laminate work, gelcoat, panels, modifications, and custom marine fabrication.

Hull repair · Structural laminate · Gelcoat · Panels & modifications
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Carbon & Advanced Composites

Carbon fiber, epoxy systems, vacuum bagging, sandwich construction, and lightweight composite parts.

Carbon layup · Epoxy systems · Vacuum bagging · Sandwich construction
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Specialty Fabrication

Prototype parts, molds, tooling, architectural pieces, vehicle and aircraft components, art fabrication, and unusual one-off projects.

Prototypes · Molds & tooling · One-off parts · Repairs of things nobody else wants to touch
The Archive

Project documentation.

This side of the shop is only starting to get documented properly — the work exists, the photos of it here mostly don’t yet. The first few plates are up. As more jobs get shot and written up, they’ll go here.

Laminator in a Tyvek suit and respirator at the glassing bench, rolls of fiberglass cloth on the wall rack and resin buckets on the bench
Plate 01Surfboard glassingGlassing bay — cloth racks, resin station, boards on the stands
Blue and white cabin cruiser on a trailer with a freshly finished hull, a laminator in a Tyvek suit and respirator mixing at an outdoor work table loaded with laminating resin, mixing cups, sanding blocks and a random orbital sander
Plate 02Marine repairTrailered cruiser — laminating resin and sanding station set up on site
Carbon fiber skimboard layup, twill weave with a diamond pattern inlay, fresh off the mold
Plate 03Carbon layupCarbon layup — twill weave, diamond inlay, straight off the mold
Boat cabin top under vacuum, bagging film sealed down with tacky tape around a masked panel, with a vacuum port and clear tubing running off the bag
Plate 04Vacuum baggingBagged cabin top — tacky tape perimeter, vacuum port and lines
Two fiberglass production molds, gelcoat surface aged and scuffed from repeated use
Plate 05Tooling & moldsProduction molds — gelcoat tooling surface, years of pulls
Row of finished white gelcoat nose cone fairings on a bench, one cut open showing a yellow interior finish
Plate 06Specialty partsNose cone fairings — finished gelcoat exterior, one cut open
6 real plates — no stock imagery. This archive grows as more jobs get documented.
Have Something Unusual?

Send a photo, drawing,
or description.

If composites are part of the solution, I’d be happy to take a look.

Call or text(805) 400-7137 EmailNautiluscomposites@gmail.com