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Kalkara Boatyard
Fix. Float. Repeat.
Clients utilising the yard facilities can avail themselves of pay-by-use services for water and electricity, available in single or three-phase configurations, which can be connected to the points provided by access control equipment installed at various locations throughout the yard. Clients leaving their boats for storage and/or work required at Kalkara Boatyard can rest assured that their boats are in safe hands. Boats are put on holistic steel cradles even when being transported to their allocated area within the yard using the boatyard’s state-of-the-art hydraulic transporter. Security at Kalkara boatyard boasts of a 24-hour CCTV surveillance system augmented by the presence of a night guard. The yard also has an automated fire prevention/fighting system.
The Delceppo Directors and their employees assure their prospective clients of a very high-level professional environment, whether in customer care, the Yard, the works required, or any other requisite services clients may need.
Mr Joseph Delceppo specialised in traditional boat building, and within the first two years, he had built 64 boats for the local market. They included the local fishing boats, better known as Luzzu, Regatta boats, small passenger boats, the ‘kajjik’ – a rowing boat of Turkish origin, and other sea crafts ranging from 10ft to 34ft in length. The Boatyard continued to flourish, and by the 1960s, Kalkara Boatyard had become a reputable firm that could offer joinery, carpentry, and conversion works to high specifications. As Malta’s popularity as a Yachting Centre grew, the firm could also undertake extensive refit jobs on yachts of various sizes. In the meantime, Joseph’s children were growing up, and their lifestyles started to blend with their father’s. By 1986, the services offered by Kalkara Boatyard were so much in demand that Joseph, together with his sons Rino, Manuel, George and Charlot, moved to a much larger site across the creek from the old yard. Success is always the result of talent combined with hard work. It is this combination that resulted in Mr Joseph Delceppo’s successful enterprise, Kalkara Boatyard. Boat building is an art. Joseph developed his exceptional talent, and his four sons, who inherited his enthusiasm, and later his daughter joined in as well, continued to create the family’s talents. The impressive, ultra-modern establishment that is now Kakara Boatyard was once a monument to the Delceppo family. It offers professional services backed by many years of experience, technical know-how and above all, their combined love of the Craft.