Well I don't have a dog in the fight... but FYI,

Kevin Cook, one of our local boat bulders just told the T class web site that indeed "there is a world wide shortage of carbon cloth and it sucks for boat builders"

I also know that George Saunders who has bult many an Int Canoe is completing his A boat using the Steve Clark molds but I don't know what his costs are... He has all of the tooling and years of experieince needed to make the boat and it's supposedly under weight and just lovely.

Lars Guck told me that he wouldn't build one AND he is a boat builder and that I should not even consider building unless I was prepared to build two or three so that I would get it right in the end.

So... these are just honest opinions and observations...