that's our main thought - we race during the day, hit the dock, crack some beers, race these to the night. The Seawind is a pretty good size boat - 1 meter long and it stands a little over 5' tall. Paint and finishing, by far, takes the majority of the build time so how much detail/effort you put in your paint job will have a big effect on the build time. We happen to have a relatively large fleet in our tri-state area of retirees that are already sailing these boats so we instantly have a fleet to sail with on the off weekend too.

Tim and I built two and started two more last week. From opening the box to having them ready to go on the water took us about 40 hours each (and we did it in 8 days). Without painting at all, you can probably finish it in half that time. If you go with stock kit all the way (and tie knots instead of eye splicing all your 1/64" lines) you can probably be ready to sail it in 15 to 18 hours. The kit is really well thought out and complete.

The class rules do allow you to make a couple of minor enhancements - namely to the main hatch enclosure and the vang on the mainsail - but not much else. We went all out and built new carbon hatch lids (didn't save any weight - they just look cool).