Our Boats

Custom Craft vessels - built by Darwin Custom Works - represent the cutting edge of alloy boat manufacture.  While Custom Craft as an entity is a relatively new competitor in the high performance boat building stakes, principal designer and owner Dale Smith is certainly not.  For the past 15 years Dale has been designing and building quality alloy boats both here in Australia as well as overseas, ranging from small 4m dinghies through to large 45m offshore ferries.

As a master welder and boat builder, Dale and his dedicated team at Custom Works pride themselves on designing, building and delivering the Territory’s premier aluminium vessels servicing the maritime industry, as well as the professional guided and recreational fishing sectors.  Integral to delivering this outcome is using state–of-the-art 3D modelling software as a component of the computer assisted design (CAD) process – one used to develop all Custom Craft vessels.  As the only Territory boat builder employing high-end 3D computer design technology, Custom Works is able to deliver highly accurate hydrostatic information (including weight distribution and buoyancy calculations) to assist with the custom designing of vessels to meet the specific requirements of each client.

In addition to being able to readily create a new design from the keel-up to accommodate the specific needs of customers, Custom Works has also developed the Eliminator and Premier series of vessels in response to demand from the professional guided and recreational fishing sectors for a high performance hull that in effect can do it all e.g. one that is able to effectively negotiate the confines and shallow waters of the Territory’s rivers and estuarine environments, yet is equally at home when operating in deeper offshore waters.