Big plate boats
Submitted by Rob H on Sun, 2019-09-15 20:55
For those with an interest in aluminium boats, here is a selection of pics of a boat being built by a mate in Geraldton presently, 70 foot.
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big john
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Skill
That's pretty impressive. How long would something like that take you reckon from go to whoa?
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Rob H
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Good question
Good question, this, like many of the recently built ones will have a fibreglass wheelhouse built in Dongara.
I'll hazard a guess at about 4-5 months for the hull and deck.
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meglodon
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Very nice
There is a lot of hours put in to get it to this stage I would guess.
Paul N
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amazing
Amazing how flat sheets end up forming a curved hull like that .
piston broke
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Lovely
fine entry, looks amazing.
ranmar850
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Extreme Marine?
Shows what you can do with shaping aluminium if you have a large enough working area--unfortunately, this is where smaller plateys fall down, you can't can't get any subtleties of shape into them over the smaller areas involved.
Nice bits of kit, Ian Ralph from Kalbarri put one in the water a couple of years ago.
here's the finished productstill trying
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front on pic would look good
front on pic would look good can see it has a fair amount of flare
rather be fishing
meglodon
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Just give me 6 good numbers tonight
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What a great looking boat that’s the thing that would be first on the shopping list if I won lotto, walk down to the jetty jump ( ok maybe not jump) on board turn the key and away you go.
Thanks for posting the pic of a fantastic looking fishing boat not a floating gin palace
little johnny
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Sorry meglogon it’s my turn
To win. Nice boat.