In our company we have employers closely linked to the nautical world and with great experience in sport navigation. The fact that we have decided to build aluminium crafts is solidly based on the following advantages:

-         Greater resistance: it is evident that the aluminium has more resistance than the fibre. This implies less damages (it hasn’t got osmosis or splitting lamination) and so less maintenance expenses. A blow against rocks or iron in fibre would imply an important damage and very expensive repairing, Aluminium, thanks to its high ductility, is one of the less breakable metals and it doesn’t have splitting problems.  

-         Less petrol consumption: aluminium is lighter than fibre and the bigger the boat, the more differences we find between fibre and aluminium. This implies better manoeuvring and what is more important, less petrol consumption. 

-         Greater safety: aluminium doesn’t burn with fire. A blaze in a fibre boat can send the craft to the bottom of the sea because the fibre gets consumed. In the case of hitting a rocky sea bed, fibre breaks and that opens a water way into the boat which prevents navigation because the hull fills with water. On the contrary, aluminium, thanks again to its ductility and low fragility, goes out of shape but doesn’t break, so there is no way for the water to go into the boat. In order to break the aluminium, the strike has to be really violent.  

-         Low repairing cost: repairing in aluminium is simple, as it happens with the cars’ bodywork. A dent in the hull can be repaired in a few hours, cutting the metal sheet and welding a new one, so the boat can return to its original state and with total guarantee of hull resistance. However, in fibre boats, a hit can cause splitting and it obliges to partial and expensive repairs which don’t guarantee the original resistance, because the fibre, as its name says, is not composed by whole pieces where the superficial tension is the same in every point. 

-         Greater second hand value: aluminium doesn’t deteriorate with the permanent exposition to sun rays. It neither suffers the effects of osmosis and it resists the seaweed and limpet incrustation when the boat has been inactive for a long time. Transport by trailer ends splitting the fibre, but this does not happen with aluminium. This implies that after years, aluminium boats keep their initial conditions or, what is the same, they are newer than those made of fibre. And therefore, they have greater second hand value and less depreciation.