Earl,

Please help us all here on this Board not make the same mistake you did. I'd rather learn from someone else's mistake than make the same one myself. I know I'll make my own, but maybe I can avoid at least one.

> I just finished a Great Auk and I have close to 400 hours in it. Now there
> are a number of wasted hours because of mistake that I wouldn't do again
> but then you will probably invent your own mistakes. I started with only
> the tables in Nick's book so have layout hours in it. I scrounged all my
> table materials and frame materials from scrap piles. $500 is about right
> for the materials in the kayak but then add the tools you can't live
> without and for me the outfitting costs for PFD, wet suit etc is putting
> me around $1000. But the cost per hour of pleasure in building is quite
> low. In fact the longer it takes the better that number gets ;>) Earl
> Earl