Work we bhai Sachin ,the Marine Electronic Tech.

Back in the days, we had a Balahu club and we use to have races up and down the Canje Creek.  The annual regatta used be on the Berbice River. I remember watching it from the Stanley Town wharf.

@Mitwah posted:

Back in the days, we had a Balahu club and we use to have races up and down the Canje Creek.  The annual regatta used be on the Berbice River. I remember watching it from the Stanley Town wharf.

Now this is novel! Instead of a yacht that foreigners can find anywhere, offer them a genuine Guyanese Balahu ride, an original, natural experience where they can become one with nature on the creek.

And for a few dollars more they can hire their own Bramin to sing to them

@Django posted:

Work we bhai Sachin ,the Marine Electronic Tech.

Yacht building companies usually look for countries with skilled labor force for cheap. Lately a lot of builders open in some of the South Americancountries like Belize, Costa Rica etc..

@sachin_05, do you know if Guyana produces Mahagony? Have you visited the Mariner Yacht Club in BVI?

https://www.moorings.com/hotel...oad-town-tortola-bvi

No, as far as I know the most popular woods used on yacht interior, floors and deck - mahogany, teak, oak etc doesn’t grow in Guyana. Lots of boaters use to source cheaper mahogany and teak from Trinidad.
Moorings is the largest charter yacht company in the BVI. The marine electronic company I work for back in the days use to supply and installed on their yachts marine equipment - auto pilot, radar, depth sounder communication equipment etc.

@Mitwah posted:

@sachin_05, do you know if Guyana produces Mahagony? Have you visited the Mariner Yacht Club in BVI?

https://www.moorings.com/hotel...oad-town-tortola-bvi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...gory:Trees_of_Guyana

Swietenia macrophylla (Mahagony)

@Django posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...gory:Trees_of_Guyana

Swietenia macrophylla (Mahagony)

As a child, my parents got some nice wood work furniture, custom made, from Morgan Furniture in Charlotte street. I just googled them, and surprisingly, they are still there!

@cain might know of them.

If I'm not mistaken the furniture was Mahagony. Also, our wooden door was made of purple heart. Both were highly polished.

@Django posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...gory:Trees_of_Guyana

Swietenia macrophylla (Mahagony)

...this is going to launch into another argument that sweeteinia whatever is not mahogany. Just like champagne is not wine.

@Former Member posted:

...this is going to launch into another argument that sweeteinia whatever is not mahogany. Just like champagne is not wine.

sachin_05Senior Member

@Former Member posted:

As a child, my parents got some nice wood work furniture, custom made, from Morgan Furniture in Charlotte street. I just googled them, and surprisingly, they are still there!

@cain might know of them.

If I'm not mistaken the furniture was Mahagony. Also, our wooden door was made of purple heart. Both were highly polished.

Most of Guyana furniture was made from Mahagony .I am aware that type of wood is in Guyana ,worked for about a year at Toolsie Sawmill , Water Street GT.

Just talk to one of my wood work buddy from the bvi days, he confirmed that Guyana has mahogany but not the variety the yacht builders prefer. He said the African followed by the Central American is the most desirable because of the darker red color. He said the Guyana variety is comparable to the Brazilian because of the lighter color….

@Former Member posted:

As a child, my parents got some nice wood work furniture, custom made, from Morgan Furniture in Charlotte street. I just googled them, and surprisingly, they are still there!

@cain might know of them.

If I'm not mistaken the furniture was Mahagony. Also, our wooden door was made of purple heart. Both were highly polished.

I met one of the Morgan,'s in T.O, he is/was into Real Estate.

@Django posted:

Most of Guyana furniture was made from Mahagony .I am aware that type of wood is in Guyana ,worked for about a year at Toolsie Sawmill , Water Street GT.

doan mistake Crabwood to be Mahagony.

@seignet posted:

doan mistake Crabwood to be Mahagony.

Can be identified from Guyana Mahagony.