2016
North Atlantic, 2016
The first sail was a hurricane
First time ever sailing: a delivery from Lunenburg to Antigua for the Caribbean 600 that ran into a bomb cyclone. Four days of storm, nine more to port.
Stories · Field record · 2016–2026
The field record.
Six decisions 3D3D made when stopping wasn't an option — a bomb cyclone on a first sail, a client gone dark in Thailand, the centenary Fastnet, a hand-mixed propeller repair that crossed oceans, and a company built out of a motorhome. The proof the studio is battle-tested.
Answer first
Why does a 3D printing studio publish sea stories?
Because the parts go where the stories happen. Founder Randall Marshall spent years offshore, and the judgment those years built is the same judgment behind every print, repair, and system we ship. These six are the documented version — real decisions, real outcomes, no rounding up.
Every part earns its place on the water before it reaches a customer. The record below is how we keep ourselves honest about that.
The dispatches
Six documented decisions.
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2023
Thailand, 2023
The client who went dark in Thailand
Roughly $700,000 of resort inventory, a vendor network across a border, armed rebel activity on the route, and a client nobody could reach. Resolved in a month.
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2025
Cowes to Cherbourg, 2025
Rolex Fastnet, the hundredth edition
Invited aboard an 80-foot maxi for one of the oldest offshore races in the world. The mainsail went on at four in the morning the night before the start.
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2026
UK and France, 2026
Five days, three countries, three suitcases
Fredericton to London on short notice: storage units sorted in Southampton, gear across the Channel through Ouistreham and Caen to Cherbourg, handed off, home in five days.
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2016–2026
Mid-Atlantic repair
The propeller that held
A get-home repair on a variable-pitch propeller, epoxied by hand and meant to last a week. It stayed on the boat for years and crossed oceans before it finally let go, two hundred miles from landfall.
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2025
New Brunswick, 2025
A company built out of an RV
One apartment month, then a motorhome: printers on generator power through a hot summer, parts that still had to ship, and the Fastnet at the end of it.
The throughline
“Your extensive knowledge of the vessel was essential to getting us to Fastnet.”
Patrick Laine · Crew, Rolex Fastnet 2025
Six stories, one habit: when the situation got real, the call still had to be right. That is the same judgment behind every part we print and every system we ship.
Bring us yours
Your problem won't scare us.
Email what's going on. We'll tell you honestly whether it's a job for us, and what it would take — usually within 24 hours, written by the person who does the work.
Start the conversationinfo@3d3d.ca · one email reaches the maker, not a front desk.