Boat Building Course.


 
 
 

Boat Building Courses: (Courses in Melbourne, Victoria & Northern Territory & QUEENSLAND)

We run Aluminium Welding and Boat Building courses at least 5-8 times per year. The courses are run at our premesis, and are scheduled as weekly intensive courses. For the past 17+ years, the courses have been held in Melbourne, Australia, and we have had people attend from around Australia and overseas including America, France, Brazil, Columbia, New Zealand, Canada, Alaska, Korea, etc.. The course is popular and are often booked out many months in advance. From 2022, we are also holding courses at our Queensland premesis, close to Hervey Bay, also in Berrimah in Darwin

The courses are designed to teach the latest techniques in pulse mig welding of aluminium using the worlds most advanced welding equipment. The course covers aluminium welding, and the boat building techniques required to build a boat.
In 2005, we started teaching the courses at the local Tafe college, but since 2007, we have run all our courses at our main boatbuilding facility in Melbourne. 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 students can use, these include Cebora, Fimer, Fronius, CEA, Unimig and Others. 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 consider building a plate alloy boat.

At the course you will learn basic MIG welding techniques with aluminium, using these 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 USB, in addition to a manual of the build of the vessel and other information regarding welding and boatbuilding.

If you would like information on the course, or would like to discuss an on-site course, call John on (03) 9555 6399.
The course dates are posted below. Note: There is a maximum of 8-10 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 & Mig Welder types
  • Welding, fillet, butt and corner to corner welds using different welders & techniques
  • Trim boat parts & start boat assembly
  • Boat kit assembly tips and tricks
  • Sanding and finishing aluminium
  • Continue / Finish Boat Kit assembly


2023 Welding and Boatbuilding Course Dates - Availability Updated on 14/4/2023

Courses are held in Northern Territory, Queensland and Victoria


2023 Course dates are listed below

 


March, 2023
VIC Intensive Week
20th - 24th March

COURSE FULL

July 2023
QLD Intensive Week
24th - 28th July

COURSE FULL






May, 2023
QLD Intensive Week
1st - 5th May

COURSE FULL

August 2023
N.T. Intensive Week
21st - 25th August

2 PLACES LEFT






May, 2023
VIC Intensive Week
22nd - 26th May

COURSE FULL

September 2023
VIC Intensive Week
18th - 22nd September

COURSE FULL






June 2023
QLD Intensive Week
19th - 23rd June

COURSE FULL

October 2023
QLD Intensive Week
23rd - 27th October

2 PLACES LEFT







We have been running these courses for 17+ years - We currently schedule 8+ courses per year

We also teach in Indigenous Communities and Schools in Remote Eastern Arnhemland.

Some photos of boats built with students at our courses


Below: Course Boat purchased by Cindie, our first female attendee, She did the fit out, is on the water and is a proud boatowner. Cindie even took us fishing!

"CLICK" on the pictures below to read Cindies' Boat Building story as published in a boating club magazine