I once did Civil Engineering and Land Surveying, and when we would hand the customer a bill for $1,000 for marking their property boundries we would sometimes get complaints that we were overcharging them for just putting 4 concrete posts in the ground.

All they saw was us showing up, digging holes and putting in the markers. What they didn't see was the trips to the registry of deeds to research the property, the field collection of the data, the calculations we did to determine where the markers go and a dozen other hidden costs that lead to those pieces of concrete being in the correct place.

I guess my point is that there is a lot more to getting a good set of plans to the customer than just running to kinkos and having them xeroxed. I think $80 is a fair price for the amount of work that goes into creating well designed boats like Nick's, Rob Mack's and the other designers of those beautiful kayaks we all love to show off and paddle. I don't imagine many of them are getting rich from this.... Plus, you usually end up getting what you paid for.