Greetings:

From what I am seeing, the luaun plywood oughta work just fine on my Mill Creek 13s. Thanks to everyone who has responded. From my little shopping excursion today, it looks like 1/8" mahogany ply @ $8.xx/sheet will be decent looking to boot.

The latest estimate I have on my project is finished two boats, completely rigged out, just under $500, excluding consumables such as sandpaper, masking tape, brushes, etc. This is for *two* boats, mind you. They're at leat $600 each doing things the CLC way. I'd love to be more cooperative with them, but as I said originally, I must either build them cheap or not build them at all. And I was raised too close to cajun country not be able to build a cheap boat if'n I wanna.

To all who have expressed concern, I will have an experienced boat builder friend assisting me on this project, and I am a very experienced woodworker myself. I will be posting a website showing my progress as soon as it is underway for anyone who may be interested. I promise to show any failures as well as my successes, for all you sports fans.

Cheers,
Kurt

: Kurt,

: I was eyeing the Millcreek as a possible fun/inexpensive boat for my young
: daughter until I realized that the kit price is not much cheaper than
: CLC's other boats. If I may ask, what are you guessing for an overall cost
: per boat to build with luan. I'm not sure I can bring myself to subsitute
: the wood, but...

: Steve
: from Duxbury Bay