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Re: Strip: How much?
By:Gordon Snapp
Date: 1/22/2003, 8:35 pm
In Response To: Strip: How much? (Brian Steffke)

I'm wondering if you are already a paddler, or if this is going to be your first boat. If you already have lots of kayak stuff, maybe the "additional costs" won't be too excessive.

I built a Chesapeake 17. I got the kit on sale for somewhere around $600. Cool. But then I bought a new seat back, a different seat, a compass, a $230 graphite paddle, a new PFD, a VHF radio, a strobe, flares, a deck bag, various and sundry dry bags, a farmer john wetsuit, gloves, booties, a gps.... You get the picture. (I even got a collapsible cooler and a foldup chair that will fit in the aft compartment. Very nice.) I don't think I want to total all of that up.

I'm starting a Guillemot for my wife. I don't think she'll let me buy so much crap - I mean stuff - for her. (She doesn't even think she needs a new boat; I just have an overriding desire to build it.) Perhaps just a better paddle, a better PFD, and a good seat???

Oh well, if I get it a little at a time, it doesn't seem like so much, does it?

: Thanks for all of the great info. It will really help this first time
: builder. I am planning to build a Spring Run later this year, I already
: have the plans and have my form cut. I will be milling my own B&C strips.
: My wife keeps asking me how much this venture is going to cost from start
: to finish. I hate to lie to her (at least until I have all the facts).
: What is an average cost for building a stripper?

: Thanks

Messages In This Thread

Strip: How much?
Brian Steffke -- 1/22/2003, 6:04 pm
Re: Strip: How much?
Tony -- 1/23/2003, 2:58 pm
Re: Strip: How much?
Don Flowers -- 1/23/2003, 3:16 pm
Re: Strip: How much?
Dave Houser -- 1/23/2003, 3:34 pm
Re: Strip: How much?
Kyle T -- 1/23/2003, 1:01 pm
Re: Strip: How much?
don flowers -- 1/22/2003, 10:23 pm
Re: Strip: How much?
Jim Kozel -- 1/23/2003, 10:06 am
Re: AMEN BROTHER, AMEN!! :D *NM*
Steve Frederick -- 1/23/2003, 8:22 pm
Re: Strip: How much?
Lennie Hawkins -- 1/22/2003, 8:41 pm
intervention?? can't be for us-- you go Lennie *NM*
Charles Leach -- 1/22/2003, 10:33 pm
Re: Strip: How much?
Gordon Snapp -- 1/22/2003, 8:35 pm
Re: Strip: How much?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/22/2003, 7:24 pm
Re: Strip: How much?
Jeff The Tall -- 1/22/2003, 7:16 pm