Boat Builders and Shipwrights

What the job involves

• Studying plans and specifications, and preparing templates and scale plans for fabrication and cutting of hull sections

• Marking reference points and lines on dry docks and slipways

• Checking position and functioning of slipway apparatus

• Assembling shells of boats and erecting hull sections of ship

• Erecting and preparing launching platforms, conducting pre-launch tests and supervising launching procedures

• Installing masts, frames, decking, fittings, machines, shafts and safety equipment

• Building and installing structures such as cabins, machine mountings, propeller supports and rudders

• Determining repair requirements and procedures

• May make hull moulds and fabricate and repair vessels using materials such as aluminium, wood, glass, reinforced plastics, carbon fibre, Kevlar, fibreglass and concrete