Boat timber at the Namibian coast lives the hardest wood-life in the country: salt fog, UV glare off the lagoon, washdowns and working abuse. The Woodoc marine and water-borne ranges Swachem distributes are the yard-grade answer for gunwales, cabin soles, rails and brightwork — penetrating protection that maintains with a coat, not a strip-down.
Water-borne ranges suit enclosed-space application; solvent grades follow ventilation practice per SDS in cabin work.
Recoat brightwork in the fog-free autumn window — Walvis Bay’s May clarity is the finishing weather the whole yard calendar quietly organises itself around.
The lines boatbuilding & composites buyers draw from this category most.
The Woodoc Water-Borne Deck range seals walked exterior timber with low odour and fast recoat — in Clear, Imbuia, Mahogany, Natural, Oak and Teak. The choice for lodges and homes where a deck must be back in service the same weekend it was sealed.
Available in1 L
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay
Stocked or sourced on request — ask the counter.
Woodoc Deck Sealer is the exterior sealer built for walked timber — decks, stairs and walkways taking UV, foot traffic and thermal shock together. Penetrating protection in deck colours that erodes gracefully underfoot and recoats without sanding.
Available in1 L
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay
Woodoc Plus Life Primer is the penetrating primer that opens dense and resinous timber before sealing — the difference between a sealer that soaks in and one that sits on hardwood. Water-borne clear, applied first on meranti, teak-type hardwoods and previously weathered surfaces.
Available in1 L
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay
Woodoc Wood Reviver chemically cleans and brightens greyed, weathered timber back to sound wood — the restoration step before resealing. Scrub on, rinse thoroughly, let it dry, then seal: most “replace the deck” conversations end with this product instead.
Available in1 L
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay
Maintenance mathematics: coastal UV and salt destroy varnish films into peeling within seasons, demanding full strip-and-rebuild, while penetrating sealers erode gracefully and refresh with a cleaned-surface maintenance coat. On a working boat that earns while it floats, the finish that never needs a strip-down wins on downtime alone.
Water-Borne Marine on interior and enclosed timber (low odour, fast recoat — cabins get finished without gassing the crew), 50 on the exterior structural timber taking full exposure, Deck Sealer on walked surfaces, and 55 where colour hides working scars. Prime dense hardwoods; seal end grain twice everywhere.
Reviver, rinse, dry, recoat — the standard sequence compresses into Walvis Bay’s dry spells nicely: Wood Reviver scrubbed through the greyed surface, thorough freshwater rinse (salt under sealer is failure pre-loaded), full drying, then Deck Sealer in maintenance coats. A crew does a workboat’s deck timber in a weekend alongside.
Sequence only: sealed timber resists resin adhesion, so laminate and bond timber-to-GRP joints before sealing, and mask sealed timber during gelcoat and resin work — solvent splash marks fresh sealer. Where a sealed rail later needs bonding, sand back to bright timber locally. The yard’s job card should order finishing last.
Swachem Walvis Bay · 4th Street East, Walvis Bay · Tel 064 204 865 · Monday – Friday, 08:00 – 17:00
Served primarily from Swachem Walvis Bay — 064 204 865. SDS, grades and delivery scheduling included in the quote.
