You misunderstand my comments. All the components named can be easily homebuild. The fact that they can ALSO be bought ready to go for the given quotes only serves as proof of the maximal costs and economical viability when a company starts building these commercially. Of course lazy homebuilder can make use of these option if they want to get a craft quickly on the water.

Actually Landyachting (and iceyachting) is far more homebuilder oriented then any other sailing craft. It is a good place to steal tricks from. Actually the commercial landyacht builders often use the same tricks and designs as developped by homebuilders.

From the beginning (that is now several years ago) I tried to design the craft in such a way that both homebuilding and commercial builder would be practical.

We must all learn to think in terms of ".... and ..." instead of "... or ...". We must fight the Pavlovian tendency to equated everything commercial with being hard to copy by homebuilding. That is when looking at my design and proposals. I'm not so sure the same holds for some of the other designs.

Wouter