Manawatu Business Development | Engineering Innovation
Making waves
“… now we’re much bigger, much more commercial. We’re moving out of the public sector and working on commercial boats …”
Profab’s vessels
CARL FERGUSON Profab Central Engineering
Range from 6 to 32 metres for commercial and Built private applications Are custom-built a design but can Follow be personally specified eight weeks Available from receipt of negotiated deposit with the balance due on hand-over
Since the dawn of civilisation we’ve used the sea — for food, to travel and now play. Be it Polynesian wakas, the ships of the Vikings or today’s super yachts, for millennia we have used boats. While technology has advanced, boats are still as popular and as vital as ever. That’s where Profab Central Engineering steps in. Started 14 years ago by owner Carl Ferguson, the company originally focused on projects for the dairy industry. During a slow period,
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the team decided to build a boat. “It all just snowballed from there,” he says. “We started off with making smaller, trailer boats. But now we’re much bigger, much more commercial. We’re moving out of the public sector and working on more commercial boats, usually for fishermen.” Profab Central Engineering’s boating divisions started out with its brand called the Oceanraider series, designed in either pleasure-craft or commercial specification, and built to New Zealand Marine Survey Standard. In the last 10 years Profab has built more than 50 boats ranging from six metres to 32 metres. Its boats can be supplied fully customised to the owner’s specifications and lay out.
Specialising in:
“This is what sets us apart. Our boats are custom-built, not mass produced, as we don’t build until someone has bought a boat. “We follow our generic design, but everything is different and everything’s all personalised. “I liken it to an architecturally-designed house as opposed to a kit-set built one,” Ferguson says. There are a number of other factors that make Profab Central Engineering stand out. “Firstly, we are very efficient. Everything from the boat-build to communicating with the customer is done quickly and professionally,” Ferguson says.
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