impressive metal boats

wondered if there could be a thread showing the best and the worst metal boats we have seen
kick it off with the best I have seen
this was a Dutchman, unpainted on frames only, with timber houses,

 

and the sweet lines of another dutch yacht

 

This is a very nice design, if I do say so myself (and I do say so, myself). This is the Moloka'i Strait 75 from my office. The hull is steel, and the deck house is aluminum.

Eric

 

This boat is built by JFA in France (concarneau), they build the most impressive metal boats. That classic hull is made of aluminum, the deck and structures are mahogany. I took this pic last week, the Britair boat is their getting ready for the vendee globe.

http://www.jfa-yachts.com/HTMLs/start_uk.htm

 

nice one Eric, loads of space on shortish loa,
and the beautiful sheer on the sailing yacht, I love those plumb house faces and the beauty of those hulls is they are sweet downhill

 

does this mean I can post my own too Eric)

 

myself and the owner engaged Bos and Carr to design/build, for a work boat there are some great skills forewards

 

Must be quite a trick mating those up, what with differing Cte and the inability to use welding.

Jimbo

 

no, you can use a two sided bar, one side steel other alloy it is explosion fused together and very expesive, or you can flange using isolating gaskets

 

Yeah, flanges and gaskets was my thought. But certainly more involved than just using buzz boxes.

Jimbo

 

Dix 65, built by myself and the owner...

 

This is the modified Robert's Euro 1200 my friend (the owner) and I have built very recently. The engineering job, the exterior co-design and some handwork was mine, the interiors and huge part of handwork was provided by the other guy.
Steel hull (hot-sprayed with zinc), aluminum superstructure, twin engines. Triclad bars were used for steel-aluminum joints.
It has sailed all over the Adriatic sea this summer and we plan to take her to the French coast for the next summer.

The third photo has some jigsaw-like lines because it's been composed of several photos joined to form a "panoramic" view. I'm not good in that kind of stuff.

 

Aldabaran

 

I rate these guys the best I have seen worldwide, and I have seen yards all overthe world
Bos and Carr NZ
They design all their own structure, no matter whose design it is, , and use Maxsurf and Rhino 3

 

I'm curious about that... What is that makes them the best of the best :?: