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    My ally boat building BIL invited some of the family to view his latest project. Today is the last day for looking at it close up as the boat goes into the water next week and that will be it.

    Before I ramble on I should say I know very little about boats so some of the terms I use may not be appropriate.
    The boat is I believe technically called a Super Cruising Yacht called the White Rabbit Golf and there is some information about it here https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/...cd87296f0491a4
    I will show a few pics of the boat and some of the workshops associated with it.

    The boat is being built at the AME site in Henderson just south of Fremantle.
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    The boat fills one half of the factory and couple of smaller boats are being built on the other side. The clearance between the overhead gantries and the top of the boat is about two inches and when working on the top of the boat BIL said he had to jump down to a lower level to allow the gantries to pass by.
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    This will give you an idea of the scale of this thing.
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    It's 84m long and 20m wide which is almost 250% bigger than our block of land and making this the largest Super Cruising Yacht built in Australia and one of the biggest all Al trimarans built.
    It displaces about 1000 tones
    There are 5 floors of area and it has sleeping for 30 crew and 23 guests.
    The client is a Singaporean Super Cruising Yacht owner who leases Super Cruising Yachts in SEA although this one will be his personal boats BTW His boats lease from between $400k to $600k per week.

    We were only permitted to take photos outside but saw some of the inside which is almost complete, including million dollar art works, marble counter tops and a casino room. Interestingly most of teh floors are teak boards space a few mm apart with black sikaflex.

    It carries 2 x 23 ft tenders on board and is accompanied by a 43 meter to carry all the toys!

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    In the above two photos you can just see the hole in the bow below the water line for the bow thruster its a centre less impeller that is inside the motor - see below.
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    Couple of prop shots. As well as the twin rear props it has two vertical stern thrusters that can be swivelled 360º
    That's my 6ft 6" nephew standing alongside the prop
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    Now for the workshop stuff - it's all very plain and simple really.

    Below shows the area where the Al bending was done.
    The hull is all Al sheeting ranging from 25 to 16 mm thick.
    The superstructure and other structures uses between 6 and 10 mm plate
    The pieces arrive laser cut and bent using bender B.
    BIL was one of the chief benders
    G is a guillotine for thin stuff.
    S is sliding compound mitre saw used for rod and tube.

    Laser cut pieces would arrive and be bent on site and fabricated up into curved panels and then lifted into place and welded to internal frames and other pieces of hull already in place.

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    I was surprised at how small the bender was.
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    Guillotine limited to 10 mm Al and 6 mm steel
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    There were lots of WW tools around including a few ryobi portable 9" band saws they'd carry on board to patch stuff ups.

    This was the SS work area - 5 workbenches all up.
    There was hundreds of metres of SS tube used.
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    There also a very large area for woodie operations, cabinets etc.
    The teak floor sections were made up of 60 mm wide teak strips and all cut in this workshop to fit specific floor patterns.
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    Apart from bending the curves BILs main task was to fix stuff ups before the big wigs higher up found out about it.
    He can MIG/TIG with the torch on the end of a 6ft pole so he can get into spots to weld that someone forgot to complete before they restricted access by welding in another panel etc.

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    Pretty impressive, I wonder if they have a 5.5hp chonda driving it.
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    Very impressive and clean workshop. What length guilo is it, 3m?
    The young bloke I work for bought one 3m X 6mm capacity, doesn't look like theirs though.
    Thanks for the Pics,
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    Quote Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore View Post
    Very impressive and clean workshop. What length guilo is it, 3m?
    I think they had a client inspection a few days ago and that maybe why it was so clean.
    Sorry don't know about the guilo.

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    Thanks for posting. Very interesting.

    I'm intrigued by the centreless impeller bow thruster. I really need to see more of that. Can you climb in there and get another pic!?

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    Quote Originally Posted by simonl View Post
    Thanks for posting. Very interesting.
    I'm intrigued by the centreless impeller bow thruster. I really need to see more of that. Can you climb in there and get another pic!?
    Maybe I'll wait till its manoeuvring in the water and then get a close up?

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    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    Pretty impressive, I wonder if they have a 5.5hp chonda driving it.
    Might need at least 2.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Maybe I'll wait till its manoeuvring in the water and then get a close up?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Might need at least 2.

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    Theres some serious HP behind those screws!

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    Quote Originally Posted by simonl View Post
    Theres some serious HP behind those screws!
    There are 4 , V12 Caterpillar C32s (32.1 liters / 1959 cubic inches) and each configured to produce ~2000 horsepower at 2300 RPM, each engine weighing over three tonnes. These engines are often used in locomotives and yacht-class ships.

    Performance is estimated at a max speed of 19 knots and with an economical cruise speed of 13 knots. Fuel capacity of 125,000 litres provides a range of 4,658 miles at 12 knots.
    Bit on the exxy side to fill-er-up.

    What surprised me was the amount of battery storage aboard.
    At the side of the factory there were dozens of large empty wooden crates that the batteries were delivered in and there were batteries in all sorts of nooks and crannnies.
    We didn't get to see it but the electrical and comms room takes up half the floor space on the deck above the engines.

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    It looks the one i dream off

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    Hellipad?....... sorry but it simply wont do without one! All jokes aside its arr... pretty good.

    Bet ya management will be sweating on getting this one outta the shop and paid for.
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