Making A Sail Boat

Taking these up one by one, depreciation is dependent on first cost and first cost is something almost impossible to estimate. Good sailing boats are on the used-boat market at prices ranging from a couple of thousand dollars upward. You may be able to get a buy for even less providing you are willing to do some work fixing her up. Let’s settle one point right here. Sails cost money and homemade ones are seldom of much use unless you are satisfied to limit your sailing and your speed to a point where the game may not be worth the disappointments and the embarrassment of having everyone else sail rings, around you.

To save all the dinero possible, and still have a good boat, the logical advice is to build her yourself. This means first, that you have a place to do the work; second, that you have the skill; and third, that you have both the tools necessary and the time required. Don’t let anybody kid you that you can build a sailboat in your cellar shop in a few days. A fair time estimate, assuming that you can read plans and use tools, would be something close to 10 working hours per foot of boat length for the simplest sort of an open craft. Any boat with a cabin, or much in the way of interior arrangements, will take a lot more time.
How much will she cost if you have the time, the place, the plans, and the skill?

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