Thanks for providing a great insight onto the detailed manufacturing process - keep them coming !

As a sailor and someone just getting into welding I found this super interesting. AL seems like an interesting metal to work/weld on. Love your boats! Thanks for sharing

I really enjoyed your video, especially the insights into the construction of these sailboats. It would be great to see how the design process works for these vessels and to learn more about any upcoming plans and projects for larger sailboats. Thank you for sharing this fascinating content!

very nice, keep the videos coming!

Interesting video. Hoping to see a bit more on the 430's construction, with a deck saloon interior.

I need more info. Yes, keep them coming

That was fascinating.

Nice boats. Great design But as an aluminium and steel fabricator of 30 years I would like to say that when you weld a plate around the edges there is some shrinking and this gives the opportunity to introduce a little convex curvature to the transverse frames in between the chines, also as the plate bends and twists around the hull, curvature doesn't always follow the form taken by the transverse frames. I may be wrong but this opportunity to obtain a more optimal shape may not have been utilised in the Alubat range. Dennis Ganley is an example of a designer of the past who understood the full benefits of metal construction. The metal coils around the hull and doesn't always conform to the transverse frames. I am sure with cnc programming anything is possible and I invite Alubat to look into it. It would cost no more in build time as frames are now cut by cnc and it would minimise the need to pull the plate to the frames in between the chines quite as much and create a stronger more cosmetically pleasing hull that's less prone to oilcanning.

Fascinating!

Merci beaucoup. Very informative! Why does one boat have longitudinal stringers and the other not? Edit: to answer my own question, the plate is thicker on the boat with no stringers. 3:55 So that structure is in the plate (and hull shape). Given how widely used 6061 is with 5083 boats, hopefully they are near each other in the galvanic series. They are different alloys of Aluminum so can have different galvanic potentials, which can lead to corrosion. Edit: looks like they are considered the same galvanic potential, which is good. Suggestion: use Aluminum "molds" for no possibility of Iron transfer to the Aluminum. (I would name the molds as fixtures.) Otherwise a totally reasonable way to build production boats with the same hulls. P.S. Luc's English is 99% better than my French. In English we call the bending machine a bending brake or sheet metal brake.

How can you swap the engine if required?

@alubatamerica

6 ай бұрын

The engines can be removed through the companion way.

Do you offer any diesel electric hybrid motors ? Something shaft drive that can double as an alternator ?

@alubatamerica

3 ай бұрын

yes, we do!

Hi Rob Great video, if you could do the same with the body of the Ovni Cat, it will be great... I'm in hurry to see this cat Thanks Gilles

@alubatamerica

6 ай бұрын

Hi Gilles, we are as anxious to show it as you are to see it. The first catamaran is under construction now and the construction methodology that has worked so well over the decades will be the same on the cat.

Can you get some customization of the interior? Like adding chairs instead of settee (kindof like on HR or ComPac)?

I don;t know if anyone can reply to this, but what kind of hull insulation do you apply? Is it polyurethane spray foam?

@alubatamerica

Ай бұрын

The hulls are first sprayed with cork and then lined with foam insulation.

Question boat doesn’t have a heavy keel or keel at all how does it effect the boat balance al so in heavy weather many thanks

@alubatamerica

4 ай бұрын

The boat enjoys the same balance as any sailboat of the same size. The Alubat has ballast added to the hull along with the centerboard.

Are you planning to build any bigger yachts following the 370/430 line? for e.g 50-60 ish feet ?

@alubatamerica

4 ай бұрын

Yes, there are plans for a larger 650!

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