I know there's someone near me (northern VT) that is a ClC approved builder. I wonder if clc gets more than the $50 plans cost when a boat goes out the door. I am all for selling boats and I know that for me it is going to come probably sooner than later. For the main reason that I get tired of looking at all my screw ups on my exped and having people comment about what an amazing looking boat it is. I just wouldn't feel right making a profit off of nick's or anyone else's designs without their collaboration or approval. I just wondered how it works between designer and professional builder. There has to be some kind of licenseing arangement if you were going to go into the business of building.
It seems like most of the successful builders like Joe, Grant, Rob and Vaclav develop there own designs.

Tom

: This is strictly my personal opinion, but I can't see any problem with
: selling a boat that you have built yourself. I don't see it as being any
: different than selling any other boat. However, I would add a couple of
: caveats. Pay the designer or company that sells the plans or kit for each
: boat you build.
: Do not buy one set of plans and build multiple boats off of it. Most of the
: ones I have looked at state that you are authorized to build one boat with
: a given set of plans. Someone else has put an incredible amount of work
: into designing the boats and putting together the kits, and it is proper
: for them to ask to be compensated for their work. My other point is that
: at least some companies (I believe that CLC is one of them, but I'm sure
: there are others) license or authorize folks to advertise themselves as
: builders for their boats. If you are going to sell a lot of a particular
: model or brand of boat, it might be worth your time to get ok'd as an
: official/approved builder for that brand. My impression is that approved
: builders typically charge somewhat higher prices than us mere mortals, and
: one would think that a boat coming from someone like that would have to be
: pretty high quality, or the company wouldn't have authorized the person to
: build on its behalf.

: Not sure if I'm on the mark on those points, but they are food for thought.