We Built an Aluminium Boat, from Nothing to Sea Trials in 11 Minutes

We built a 12ft Aluminium boat because we couldn't get to our big boat in the lockdowns. Of course we recorded the whole thing and here's the first video.

It's going to be the tender/dinghy for the big boat. The design is by Rick Welin of (www.metalboatkits.com)

We'll be making other videos about this one soon, so if you have questions about it put them in the comments. We'll also be posting an update video soon too.

Hope you are all keeping well, thanks for being so patient.

A few extra details if you are interested: (Video with more details to follow soon)

The design is by Rick Welin from https://metalboatkits.com/product/12-foot-skiff/
Rick was very helpful during the build, would definitely recommend!

We used 4mm Aluminium 5083 which is a marine specific grade. The tube etc was 6063 and 6061.

We Tig welded the whole thing as that's what we had to use, not ideal but got the job done.
Filler for marine aluminium welding is 5356.