Hi Steve…LOL we have a major communication problem on this…I was talking about a manufacture…not an individual…if I lead you to believe that we have to pay our selves to build a “home built boat” I am sorry…We have some pretty screwed up laws here and there…but nothing that outlandish…yet…LOL

If you looked into it, you would probably find a smaller percentage of people desiring to build a boat from scratch here in the US than in Australia or South Africa. Heck it’s hard enough to sell something that needs a little repair or has a part or two missing…for the most part the US (at least in my area) seems to be moving more and more to a turn key society…they don’t want to build it, or fix it…they want it completely ready to put to use without doing anything on their part.

Bob