So here is a summary of the numbers:
1 garage
12 months
9 gallons of epoxy
$8500
and the number we have all been waiting for.....it takes 528 beers to build an i550.
Actually, the beer-ah-meter was my time clock of sorts. It took somewhere around 500 hours to build the boat. I pretty much spent 40-50 hours a month working on it.
I spent $1500 on used Melges 20 sails. $1000 on hardware. $1500 on epoxy and resin if not a bit more. $300 on the trailer. $1000 between ply and the other building materials. Somehow, the West Marine wallet vacuum sucked the rest in $50 and $100 increments.
Lets hope we get that much fun out of the boat!!
Ben
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That's $500 in beer - at Costco prices, so the boat actually only cost $8000! I think that it's probably priceless, and I think you'll have a lot of fun with it over the years...
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