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Re: Other: you're obsessed with costs!
By:ancient kayaker
Date: 3/14/2011, 7:54 pm
In Response To: Re: Other: Your build costs? (Bill Hamm)

: I don't keep track on purpose, I don't want to know what it costs,
: I feel much better not knowing thank you.
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: Bill H.

It often amazes me how much folk report they have spent on their boats, especially something as small as a kayak. Of course if you count the tools then it adds up faster but I use my tools for several boats and besides, I don’t count the other toys ...

Apart from the sailboat which cost a princely $250 or so (Canadian prices and $$) none of my canoes have cost over $100. I’m with Bill, I don’t really want to know and like him I improvise; also each and every tool I have bought was on sale.

Buy seats and footrests for a home-built boat? Why would you stop building just because you have finished the hull?

But what do I do with them all? They’re like my kids and my dogs, how can I give them away? I’d keep them all, but then there is no more room to build more!

I’d like to make it perfectly clear at this point that this is not an obsession. No it’s not. Not really. An obsession is something else. I think. Of course since I’ve never had one I wouldn’t really know.

Obviously I need help and advice. On how to make better use of my space of course. Not the giving away bit. Or obsessions, whatever they are.

Messages In This Thread

Other: Your build costs?
Damian wentzel -- 3/13/2011, 9:34 am
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Dave Gentry -- 3/13/2011, 9:49 am
Re: Other: Your build costs?
TheLuckyOne -- 3/13/2011, 5:26 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
george jung -- 3/13/2011, 6:48 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Dave McKinney -- 3/13/2011, 1:10 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Jim Schaffer -- 3/13/2011, 4:10 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Bill Hamm -- 3/13/2011, 4:19 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Bill Hamm -- 3/13/2011, 4:23 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Jim Schaffer -- 3/13/2011, 7:04 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
george jung -- 3/13/2011, 9:31 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Bill Hamm -- 3/14/2011, 12:11 am
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Ross W. Relyea -- 3/16/2011, 6:08 am
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Bill Hamm -- 3/17/2011, 12:25 am
Trailer vs. truck *PIC*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/14/2011, 1:51 pm
Re: Trailer vs. truck
Bill Hamm -- 3/15/2011, 1:06 am
Re: Trailer vs. truck *PIC*
Jim Ham -- 3/15/2011, 11:48 am
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Foster -- 3/15/2011, 11:28 am
Re: Other: you're obsessed with costs!
ancient kayaker -- 3/14/2011, 7:54 pm
Re: Other: you're obsessed with costs!
Bill Hamm -- 3/15/2011, 1:08 am
Re: Other: Your build costs?
MattD. -- 3/13/2011, 5:07 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Damian wentzel -- 3/13/2011, 10:03 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
tippy -- 3/14/2011, 3:08 am
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/14/2011, 1:05 pm
Re: Other: Your build costs?
Bill Hamm -- 3/15/2011, 1:17 am