Strip Built Costs?

[Alan Gage]

I kept track of hours on one of the tandems I donated and it was about 115 hours. The ones I build for myself are considerably less.

Alan

 

[Jim Dodd]

I kept track of hours on one of the tandems I donated and it was about 115 hours. The ones I build for myself are considerably less.

Alan

Yeah, but you have Super Powers !

 

[Alan Gage]

Yeah, but you have Super Powers !

No, just low standards.

Alan

 

[Guest]

I used to keep a logbook for every boat that I built, a carry over from a lifetime of an R & D career
If I was particularly fussy it would take roughly 55 hours start to finish
Many of my builds are 40 to 43 hours of effort including cutting strips and doing the bead and coves

For contrast, the 19 ft sailboat that I built took over 400 hours

Stripperguy, you are aptly named. I know from my own simple shop regunwalings, making brightwork and outfitting that every little holiday or mistake, looks good at ten feet stuff that most folks wouldn’t notice, assaults my eyes and makes me wince. Couldashouldawoulda, fortunately I got some easy do-overs there.

The only boat work I have “timed” has been marathon outfitting sessions with friends. Non-stop get on it, someone working while the others were helping or laying out the next tools and materials

Nine solid hours to custom outfit a solo canoe.

http://www.canoetripping.net/forums...35-mad-river-freedom-solo-outfitting-marathon

That would have been a two-day project, but I had prepped all the parts and materials in advance, and printed a list, in sequential order of non-stop business, so there were few breaks to stop and think about next steps.

Of course outfitting Doug’s Hyperform Optima took three guys more like three days. There may have been some slack time involved, although we worked Doug like a rented mule every day.

http://www.canoetripping.net/forums...s-sailing-tripper-rebuild-with-dougd-and-joel