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Re: Strip: New to Kayaking need some advise
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 8/16/2010, 12:27 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: New to Kayaking need some advise (Pat MacDonald)

: Thank you to the people who have spoke with some nice comments, I
: will look into some of your suggestions and I will drop you an
: e-mail Rick. As for the other comments, yes I know what I am
: getting into. Yes I know that it take roughly 200-400 hours to
: build a boat, takes longer then that to do a complete reno on an
: old house. But I just want to point out that everybody is
: assuming that I have no wood working experience, no time to
: dedicate to building the boats and building the boats one at a
: time. For what I thought was a welcoming group there certainly a
: lot of negative comments.

I too don't want to talk you out of building a boat. But the idea that over a winter you'll build three is more than a bit ambitious. Most builders, even experienced ones will do well building one over a winter, it is a big project. Though you could build two side by side in just about the same amount of time. Building two one after the other will take at least twice the time. Have to remember that a 40 hour work week for a year is a little over 2000 hours, so 400 hours is a heck of alot of time.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: New to Kayaking need some advise
Pat MacDonald -- 8/14/2010, 10:33 pm
Re: Strip: New to Kayaking need some advise *PIC*
Mike Hanks -- 8/18/2010, 10:15 am
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/17/2010, 12:45 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/17/2010, 1:39 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/17/2010, 2:34 pm
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Mike Scarborough -- 8/17/2010, 8:04 pm
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Will N to Go -- 8/17/2010, 8:36 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/18/2010, 8:22 am
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Eric -- 8/16/2010, 5:12 pm
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Dave ( of Calif.) -- 8/16/2010, 10:58 am
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Ric -- 8/15/2010, 1:04 pm
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kirk Briggs -- 8/15/2010, 4:12 pm
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vk1nf -- 8/15/2010, 10:34 am
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Allan -- 8/15/2010, 3:55 am
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Dave Gentry -- 8/15/2010, 7:46 am
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Pat MacDonald -- 8/15/2010, 8:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/16/2010, 12:47 am
Re: Strip: New to Kayaking need some advise
Bill Hamm -- 8/16/2010, 12:27 am
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vk1nf -- 8/15/2010, 9:29 pm
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Allan -- 8/15/2010, 9:00 pm
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Mike Scarborough -- 8/15/2010, 9:39 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/15/2010, 1:22 am