A boat builder:
- Studies plans and specifications and prepares templates and scale plans for fabrication and cutting of hull sections.
- Marks reference points and lines on dry docks and slipways.
- Checks position and functioning of slipway apparatus.
- Assembles shells of boats and erecting hull sections of ship.
- Erects and prepares launching platforms, conducting pre-launch tests and supervising launching procedures.
- Installs masts, frames, decking, fittings, machines, shafts and safety equipment.
- Builds and installs structures such as cabins, machine mountings, propeller supports and rudders.
- Determines 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.
