Chasin' Dreams
Well-Known Member
My good buddy from Sooke is building another boat and I thought it would be a good idea to share this build with the forum here since there's been a lot of talk about welded aluminum boats on the forum lately and I know how much I enjoy and others enjoy threads on the forum about boat builds.
Derek is an amazing fabricator. I've seen his work and fished next to his boats in horrible Gale weather off of Sooke and they kick butt, fish well and his craftsmanship is top notch. He has built boats for VCI Lodge on the island as well as a custom 65' welded aluminum ocean vessel.
Every inch of every boat is hand fabricated with no corners cut and completely custom to however the customer wants the build.
This current build is for a customer who has a whole fleet of boats but this one will be his own personal boat.
I don't want to make this a spam advertisement for his business so I'll leave those details out but if you want more information about him, his business, etc please feel free to message me about that kind of stuff.
I'll also post up some other pictures of some of his past completed boats too so you guys can see what his finished products look like but this thread will be mostly a continuous diary of his current build which is a 27' x 10' pilot house with twin 200's... any questions about the build itself shoot away and I'll do my best to answer all of them.
*edit to correct spelling and added some info
Derek is an amazing fabricator. I've seen his work and fished next to his boats in horrible Gale weather off of Sooke and they kick butt, fish well and his craftsmanship is top notch. He has built boats for VCI Lodge on the island as well as a custom 65' welded aluminum ocean vessel.
Every inch of every boat is hand fabricated with no corners cut and completely custom to however the customer wants the build.
This current build is for a customer who has a whole fleet of boats but this one will be his own personal boat.
I don't want to make this a spam advertisement for his business so I'll leave those details out but if you want more information about him, his business, etc please feel free to message me about that kind of stuff.
I'll also post up some other pictures of some of his past completed boats too so you guys can see what his finished products look like but this thread will be mostly a continuous diary of his current build which is a 27' x 10' pilot house with twin 200's... any questions about the build itself shoot away and I'll do my best to answer all of them.
*edit to correct spelling and added some info
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