I designed most of the boat with the help of two guys I used to work with. We took several existing US1M hull shapes, identified what we liked and didn't like about each, and combined several features to arrive at this hull shape. I drew it in Solidworks, sliced it printable sections, printed them out, and cut shadow frames for a friend of mine to strip plank the plug.

One of the tribunal design council, Bogy, passed away from cancer before I finished this boat - that's why the design is called "The Bogy".

I purposely did NOT count hours that went into this project - I've got a lot of time in it because I have constructed everything with the purpose of going into limited production with it. If nothing else, I did it this way because I really enjoyed the design aspect of all the tooling. I could have pulled hulls directly off the plug and avoided a lot of the mold making I did (rudders, keel, etc.) and saved a lot of time.

My material cost for a boat is somewhere around $300-$350 plus radio (carbon hull). You can spend anywhere from $80 to $400 for the radio but the proper drum-style sail winch ($180), in my opinion, is really required to handle the sail loads. With the exception of the sails, everything is scratch built on this boat. I used carbon fiber in everything except the hull - I was proving out the molding process and lamination schedule so I didn't want to expend the expensive carbon fiber in the learning process!

There are tons of US1M designs out there and the class has a file of about 20 designs that are free to build. You can scratch build a one-off hull using the shadows, strip planking in balsa, and then lightly fiberglassing the hull (removing the bulkheads). It's an open box rule class with some relatively simple design parameters.