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Re: Other: Replicating a design
By:Dan
Date: 3/4/2014, 10:54 pm
In Response To: Re: Other: Replicating a design (Jon Mortimer)

Some perspective:

One hundred hours to strip build a kayak. Average hourly wage in the US: $24. A committment of $2400 in labour. Materials: $1000. Total committment $3400. Value of a kayak design (without plans or instructions or building support) about $60. That is a small fraction of the cost of bulding a boat, less than 2% of the total committment.

Your labour and skills may be worth more or less. Materials may cost more of less. The cost of a design will always however be a small fraction of the cost of buliding a kayak. This means that avoiding paying for a design saves nearly nothing within the scheme of things.

Jon Mortimer

Yes. I agree, in the scheme of things plans are cheap. What happens if you want a boat for which no plans exist? As in this case.

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Other: Replicating a design
Sean Dawe -- 2/27/2014, 9:09 am
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Sean Dawe -- 2/27/2014, 9:12 am
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ancient kayaker -- 2/27/2014, 10:26 am
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Sean Dawe -- 2/27/2014, 11:04 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 2/27/2014, 11:12 am
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Sean Dawe -- 2/27/2014, 11:19 am
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ancient kayaker -- 2/27/2014, 3:38 pm
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John Messinger -- 2/27/2014, 3:34 pm
Agree
Jay Babina -- 2/27/2014, 3:50 pm
Re: Agree *PIC*
Paul Davies -- 2/27/2014, 8:55 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 2/27/2014, 6:46 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 2/27/2014, 4:47 pm
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Sean Dawe -- 2/27/2014, 9:02 pm
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Dan -- 2/28/2014, 9:57 am
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Jon Mortimer -- 3/3/2014, 7:01 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/4/2014, 12:19 am
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Etienne Muller -- 3/4/2014, 5:27 am
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Sean Dawe -- 3/4/2014, 10:13 am
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Etienne Muller -- 3/4/2014, 3:57 pm
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sean-dawe@hotmail.com -- 3/4/2014, 4:59 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/5/2014, 12:38 am
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Sean Dawe -- 3/5/2014, 6:18 pm
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Dan -- 3/4/2014, 10:54 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/5/2014, 12:41 am
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ancient kayaker -- 3/4/2014, 10:48 pm
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Jon Mortimer -- 3/5/2014, 5:08 am