Those down under folks sure build a nice boat!

This is the best Alluminium boat I have seen. To get such beautiful finish and to provide such outstanding facilities and features the builder in NZ has put in lots of hours on the board and on floor. The lines look amazingly sea friendly. Will ride like a butter knife in sea

Freaking beautifully designed boat…but, built like a tank! Love all the metalworking and perfect weld beads. Thanks for showing, Alfred!

I still have my dad's aluminum boat, no rust, no nothing from 33 years ago. My son will eventually take over soon.😁🤝

This boat is so well put together

Alfred, awesome looking boat. Top notch construction.

The ultimate Jon boat

Great video. Beautiful boat!

Another great boat Alfred. Well done and showing very well built and practical boats.

Lovely boat. What I struggle to understand is how boats of around 26ft cost more than a house?

I know I’m a year late but y am I falling in love with these boats? I honestly never considered aluminum made like this.

I love welded aluminum fishing boats for open ocean fishing. The specs on this are impressive! 8mm hull. Wow!

Beautiful boat. That bow is top notch, unlike too many others that turn downwards and end up submarining in a choppy sea.

Beautiful boat bring it to Miami

What a Beautiful 26 Boat

Badass boat!! Great review!!

Beautiful boat.

Such a gorgeous boat!

It has that drop down gunnel a mid ship just like a Grady White. Beautiful boat.

Years ago I worked several boat shows. Tapping hulls is as old as time. We called them "Boat Thumpers"

This boat is gorgeous

Beautiful classic profile on this boat...like a mini viking

Perfection!

Bering yachts have the same type of finish. It's awesome.. loving that king fisher behind it.

DUDE...thats a nice little boat man. I'd totally be down for one!!!!!

Nice ride.

Lol... 😃 😀 😄 😃 How do you get up the front? For us "down under," we don't use the front like you guys do in America with your centre consoles going out to the sand bar and laying around in bean bags. The conditions are entirely different for us, mostly going to fish out wide out on the shelf, coming back in and doing overnighters in sheltered coastal bays, and then heading back out the following day. The centre console design offers very limited protection from some of the harsh elements and big seas we endure, especially down south.

The welds on that boat are amazing. The aft station is very nice but the controls on the right side would be more convenient. Great weekend boat.

That's a very nice boat! That's actually the nicest boat that I've ever seen in that size.

That boat is built to last!!! Hope it finds a good market here. Hey Alfred it’s supposed to get up to 47 degrees today. Of course you are becoming acclimated to these temps after your trip up the east coast. LOL ♥️💞🙏

Love the boat last a lifetime they build a lovely boat 😊

I LOVE IT

Kiwis build the best Ali boats in the world full stop.

Nice boat

Nice boat.

The hull has what we call Carolina flare in NC. Very nice boat.

Super sweet frito ...

Impressive

Galvanic isolaters super important as older boats, and some new are not properly grounded when using shore power in marina. Look at older articles with Marinette actually dissolving copper pennies on the hull do to dissimilar metals, love this boat, but aluminum hulls must me monitored and maintained, alot more care the FRP.

Thats a perfect boat.

no words just WOW!!!👌😍

Nice ✌🏼

If they are going for the deep pocket buyers great. But, there is absolutely no need to fare the hull like a superyacht. Either leave the hull bare aluminum or put a wrap on it. Then pass that savings on to the purchaser at a lower price point. Just because we are Americans doesn't mean everyone is super rich. Our markets need the NZ style boats with their sturdiness and seaworthiness but at an attainable price point. US boat manufacturers are so slow to adapt.

WOW!!!! WHAT A BADA$$ BOAT! Thank you for showing us this beautiful boat. BATTLESHIP BARBIE. I'm thinking of trading in my boat for this.

Beautiful boat and design. Needs twin motors though.

Working the San Francisco waterfront I ran across an old guy with a long wooden , low to the water diesel boat. It had a beautiful but well worn cabin . The old boat had thick paint , many layers . The rails were heavy wood as well as all the trim. I would guess it was built in the forties or fifties. A putt putt for sure but it was one of the coolest boats I’ve ever seen. The old guy was a very scary character so I didn’t ask too many questions…. Seemed like a mob guy. That was thirty years ago, but I don’t forget.

My fibreglass boat isn't scared.

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You going to the Boston boat show this weekend?

Nice, battleship Barbie

I have done spent thirty years in the Gulf of Mexico. In and around working on aluminum boats . After I've seen what electrolysis does to so many of them. Not to mention. The way at luminum boat rides. You can totally keep a aluminum!

If u hit a rock...It wont crack like fiberglass will, it's lighter than fiberglass so u need a smaller engine to run It the direct consequence il less gas consumption....what can be better?

On a quiet night, you can hear an aluminum boat corroding, after use in the saltwater

Bit of trivia. The beginnings of the "Jet Pump" were from a New Zealander by the name of Bill Hamilton. He invented the jet pump, and ended up selling the patent for it to Buehler Turbocraft. All of the Berkley, Jaccuzi etc jet boats came long after his invention.

If you want a less expensive but still very seaworthy NZ aluminium boat have a look at Stabicraft from the southern most part of New Zealand. Stabicraft have also opened a factory in Port Angeles, Washington State. Good YT vids showing the conditions these boats have to be designed to encounter. (The front doesn't fall off).

Another boat I can’t afford, let me know when you walk through a 16ft Tracker 😆

What propulsion system do they use with the inboard? Jet or I/o ?

Capsize proof like a coast guard boat?

Nice boat I’ve been watching some Aussie videos and wondering if the aluminum boats would catch on here like the “overlanding” trend …seems like some are testing the market

What is the thickness on bottom, side, an all

Aluminum has it's advantages but disadvantages too....your use will dictate what's better.

A kevlar boat...😁😁😁💪

It might be more than a price of a house in America but these are made in New Zealand and are at least half the price of a house in

I want to hammer down the throttle and see how it handles the waves

The issue with aluminum boats is the weight. They tend to not have the weight needed to crush the waves needed for true offshore fishing when the seas get hairy and get blown around . They ride more like a tin can onto the water rather then in the water. Also electrolysis eventually gets them no matter how diligent you are with your zincs in a salt water environment. With boating you have enough to worry about corroding, last thing you want to worry about is the boat disintegrating. I personally own 4 aluminum boats. There great in a smaller application for fresh water fishing and inside bay salt water fishing when being trailered or staying in the water for a weekend at a time. Keeping them in the water all season is a major no no.

Wonder if you can put a fly bridge on it?

Galvanic corrosion is a hell of a drug

Is that periwinkle then?

I would need a huge fish box maybe 2 side by side so I can fit 8 or 10 100lb ahi yellow fin tunas aloha from Hawaii.

Man I wish I was rich That would make a great Grate lakes boat

Cool boat but expensive.

Yeah, I would just assume that boat is fibreglass.

I guess it will find its market for the people that want it, but for me a no, way more work if you need to fix it, welding etc. Fiberglass is a much easy fix. 😏😏😏👌👌👌

I'm sorry, $363,000 for a boat that size, yikes. Anyone know what it would be if it were fiberglass?

A wall Infront of the wheel,you can't see what's ahead?

A pilot house in Florida......definitely needs A/C

Any AC in the cabin?

1200 manhours!!! Yikes it should look good! 6x the metal work in a 'normal' welded aluminum boat this size! Wow! a gem, but at gem stone prices.

Shes a beauty

Hey Alfred - We would like to get you down to New Zealand, are you able to contact us. Cheers Dan

Can you buy one in the US?

RV'ers want fiberglass and boaters want Aluminum. What the heck is going on around here?

Alfred, did you sell that boat?

A little more flare and yall will so knock the ball out of the park. Beautiful boat 🚢

Nice boat but I will never purchase another aluminum boat.

How much?

Hey Yanks...it's A L U M I N I U M.

Drive train?

They have lost their minds on that price. Faster to build, cheaper material, and they want as much as a 40 foot grady white.😂 Not a chance. Not ever.

Such a nice boat and then.....you mount a bloody outboard on it?!

I'm ready to be set straight by people who are more currrent than I. But a Merc is not a turn-on, not with the enormous cost of this boat. I see Honda, or Yamaha, or Suzuki--yeah, I am prejudiced to Japanize design and engineering execution.

You sleep on top of the toilet bro?

You all should go see what you can get from Grady white for 400k and see the difference. They can keep their overpriced aluminum😂

363.000.00 Wha the fuc.....???

Says mate lol wrong country bud.

360k for an aluminum boat LOLOLOL

Sikkk

Salt will destroy all al. boats.

Battleships are not made from alloy sorry, this boat is worth $85k max. I've worked on Super Yachts, I know all the process and labor involved in and $363k ain't it son lol.

363,000 for a 26 boat? No way aluminum is not that important