I think you guys miss the point -- some people really ENJOY building things themselves. When we were at a lake up in the Edmonton, Alberta area one year we met an old guy who for years had built a Unicorn in his garage every winter and sold them to friends. Eventually they had a pretty good fleet of them there.

And, Robi, if you want advice on how to build a cold-molded wood boat, contact John Rogers, who builds the Shark catamarans. He builds usually one, sometimes two, a winter at his home at Lake Canandaigua, NY. They have a big fleet of Sharks now on that lake, and most of them are his "babies." John's e-mail address is [email][email protected].[/email]