I left the corporate world because I needed to make something real.
For years I sat at a desk building things I couldn't touch, for companies I didn't care about. I wanted to work with my hands. I wanted to own something I could be proud of — something that would outlast me.
That search led me to fishing boats.
Where the wood comes from
Every year, working vessels retire. Thirty, forty, fifty-year-old boats that spent their lives on open water get pulled ashore and left to rot. I buy them directly from the fishermen who ran them — not through middlemen, not through salvage yards. Boat by boat.
The retired vessel is dismantled on the beach. Every panel is logged, then hauled by truck to our woodshops, where a small team of four to eight woodworkers builds each piece to my designs.
Designed, not mass-produced
I design every Voiej piece. Our team of craftspeople builds them. Nothing is mass-produced, and nothing ever will be. Each nightstand, dresser, table, or shelf carries the original patina of the boat it came from: the sun-faded paint, the salt wear, the scrapes and marks of a working life. We don't sand that history away. That's the whole point.
One of one, always
Every Voiej piece is one of one. When it's gone, it's gone — because you can't mass-produce a 40-year-old fishing boat.
That's the story. No greenwashing, no marketing department. Just old boats, given a second life as furniture for people who grew up around water and never really left it.