Boat Building Course.
 
 

We run aluminium welding and boatbuilding courses five times per year. The courses are run at our premesis, and are scheduled as weekly intensive courses and weekend, (all day Saturday) courses. The weekend courses run as 4 consecutive Saturday sessions from 8am - 5.30pm.

The course dates are be posted below. Note that there is a maximum of 8 students in each class.

These courses are very popular, and if you are interested, please email us and book in to one of the courses listed.

Course content, (typical):
  • Induction to Safe Workplace / OH&S & Welder types
  • Welding, fillet welds using different welders & techniques
  • Welding – Butt joints & vertical up / down
  • Trim boat parts & start boat assembly
  • Boat kit assembly
  • Boat kit assembly & Sanding and finishing aluminium.
  • Boat kit assembly
  • Finish Boat kit assembly

October, 2010
Intensive Week
11th - 15th October

FULLY BOOKED

February, 2011
Intensive Week
7th - 11th February

4 Spaces Available

March, 2011
Weekend Course
19/3, 26/3,2/4,9/4

Spaces Available

May, 2011
Intensive Week
30th May - 3rd June

Spaces Available

July, 2011
Intensive Week
Dates to be allocated

Spaces Available



Notes about the courses.

These courses are designed to teach the techniques required to build a boat.

Th courses used to be held at our local Tafe college, but we now run all our courses at our main boatbuilding facility in Cheltenham.

In the course, we cover welder types, MIG, pulse MIG, and MIG welders fitted with different types of guns, normal, snake, (long push type guns), and push pull guns.

We have many different brands of welders that the students can use, these include Fronius, ESAB, CIG, UniMIG and Esseti. We use both single phase welders, (240V), and also 3 phase welders, (415V) in the course.

The course also covers the setting up a welder for aluminium, the items you have to change to run aluminium in a convential MIG welder that has previously been setup for steel. We cover items such as teflon liners, "U" groove rollers, MIG gun types, wire types, brands and other important information required for users who may be attempting to build a boat.

At the course you will learn basic MIG welding techniques with aluminium, using different welders. The course covers all aspects of the welding and weld and edge finishing, typical on a plate alloy boat.
After students get the basics of the welding, we cut a boat kit, and together with the students, we build a boat. We capture the pictorial build sequence and the students are given a copy of the CD at the end of the course.

The vessel we build is always different from one course to the next, but in most cases the vessel is 4 - 5 metres in length.

If you would like information on the course, or would like to discuss a custom course, call John on (03) 9555 6399.