Nice vblog.. good to see your into a series mini too. ?(I have a Midas kit car) Just found your build. I don't see many ally boats being worked on in UK. I have a 5083 ally sailing boat. 1/4 inch plate for keel reducing to 2.5mm topsides. Fair winds.
thanks for the comment, always had mini's great little cars. lots of alloy boats here in NZ nearly all new fishing boats are alloy now. What size is your sailor? cheers Marty
The sailing boat is called an extrovert 22, designed by a guy called Julian Everitt. Made back in the early 1980's near Blyth, North East England. A company that also made gang walks into cruise ships I think and then survival vessels also out of ally. The construction involves a 2inch tubular space frame with plates butt welded to the tubes to create chines. I think they used 2 welders running on opposite sides simultaneously to stop distortion..that's what I was told. Using some kind of roller attachment to space off the mig torch. Your boat at 6mm will be basically bullet proof. Even if you foundered it. No sparks either so gas safe. 😊. Fair winds.
that sounds like quite a clever way of building back in the 80's, it's a lot easier now with cad design and cnc cutting techniques takes all the guess work out, there's a few really good alloy sailing builds on you tube if you haven't already seen them. I guess your boat would be fairly light. Cheers Marty
I've seen one or two recent ally boat builds. Lots now turning to ally. Even Delos which is a big boating channel and distant shores. The tubular method seems super strong and means no stress on welded joints..down side seems to be you can't get to back of the weld to run a second pass to make it water tight so easy when replacing panels.
