I just returned home from a business trip to Hamburg Germany and took some time to stop in Stockmaritime and see what they were about and purchase a few items for my Seawind build during the winter break.
Stockmaritime started out as a marketing/maritime photo company and saw a market for custom designed boats for their customers. That ended up becoming a very nice business for them. They make some very nice custom parts for not only the Seawind but the Micro Magic, Fortune and along with the VO70 they produce and other boats. I was very inpressed with them. I met the marketing person upon my entering and he provided me not only a tour of the facility, but also gave me a couple of hours of his time to chat and tell me the history and show me all the boats they are working on.
Their sails are printed on a large format plotter printer on Jib material that is specially designed for them. They can print out any design that people provide them and then sew them and send them to you. They also provide sails for different wind situations, light medium and heavy
Many of their parts and custom designed and laser cut for them. I ended up purchasing a full set of spreaders and a diamond spreader for my seawind. While this is not class legal here in the States, it will dress up the boat and make it more life like. I can always take that set up off and install a second one should I start racing.
While many of the items they sell are stock at Kyosho and much cheaper here in the states, they do stand behiind everything and provide excellent customer service along with some great tuning ideas. I would definatly consider a set of their sails after I came up with a great design.
I give them high marks and strongly recommend them.
Warm regards,
David Watson