Building a cruising sailboat I look at the cost of building a boat such as this, showing how much I've spent to date on the various items involved in this bo...

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Oh guys straight in this week and this

video is going to be a bit different to

the usual boatbuilding videos two

reasons for that

one is down hot too hot really to doing

it on the deck you might imagine just up

under that lovely metal roof that we've

gotten this boat shaded is when it's hot

outside it's unbelievably hot just

working under that metal roof so we've

been trying to do a bit indoors perhaps

you could just scan around and show the

paint near carry the paint and varnish

it got on good where it's a little bit

cooler in here not too bad

but the other big reason and there's

something is something I've been talking

about the last couple of videos

something I've wanted to do for quite a

while is to answer the most that the

question that I get asked the most the

question that I get asked the most is is

variations on what does it cost to build

a boat of this ilk so I should try to

answer that question I do my best to

answer that question to your

satisfaction it's perhaps harder than

you might imagine to answer but I'll

come to an answer I'll get there I'll

give you an answer one thing I just saw

you first of all is I recorded the build

with videos but what I haven't done I'm

really not an enthusiastic bookkeeper

and I haven't kept records of what I've

spent so this is from memory and a few

approximations but I've tried to be as

accurate as I can but I say I have not

got records of this so it's me

remembering the other thing that needs

to be said is that I have collected over

the years of reasonable collection of

boat parts which if you haven't got that

you know that it's gonna be extra

expense for the boat board for example

all of these ports seven bronze ports I

had I'd collected and if you look at the

price of new bronze ports for this sort

of dimension you're looking at in the

region of 300 350 you

each I've got seven of them I've put six

in the boat so far I'll probably put the

seventh in so you know there we go is to

a half grand of Brahms port so I haven't

had to spend money on I had them and

there's a few bits I've got a stove

various bits are ahead already

stanchions I've got you know quite a few

bits that I won't be spending money on

so so if you're if you haven't got such

a collection you've got those costs

additionally on top of what I will be

spending so let's get to it the first

thing of course you know is perhaps

obvious but the first thing you need is

you need somewhere to build and if

you're renting that there's extra cost

I'm not we're building at home we've

bought this we live in them the north of

Germany in a village where property

tends to be fairly cheap and and roomy

we bought this place from 22 years ago

derelict spent 15 years fixing up all

do-it-yourself hard labor of concrete

and wheelbarrows and bashing out walls

and all that carry on so in the end

we've got as far as fixing up the

outbuildings the two workshops you see

in these videos are both both been

renovated by me concrete floors by me I

don't think but the end result of that

work is that we have this shade and the

workshop next door to build this boat in

and it doesn't cost us anything above

what we pay on the mortgage you know so

that's no cost I have if you're building

if you have to rent a location to build

you've got that costs on top that's not

going to be in this calculation but

let's get on to what it cost well

perhaps I should say just before we get

to that one the other thing you've got

to think about is tools as I've just

said I spent a long time renovating this

place I had a good collection of tools

you know there's sort of tools that

you've seen that are ordinary everyday

persons tools nothing high-tech but I've

got a good collection of hand tools and

ordinary regular tools so I really

haven't had to spend much on tools I

I bought one or two bits for the bill

but not much but again that's something

else that if you've not got a great tool

collection you're gonna be spending

money on tools as well I hope that these

videos have shown you that it is

possible to build something like this

with fairly ordinary tools that you

don't feel the need to go out rush out

and spend loads of money on those

high-tech pieces of equipment equipment

going but that's your choice I guess but

for me I haven't spent much time thought

but the very last thing to say before we

get to numbers of course we will get

there is that these numbers I'm about to

show you are for this boat it's a 32

foot basically Jay Binford designed

saving dory constructed out of plywood

plywood planking on Douglas fir frames

so and that's all sealed an epoxy

sheathed in fiberglass and epoxy so

these figures are for that boat let's

have a look so we've got our black

background up we've got item and price

there to be seen and we'll fill in a few

items and a few numbers into this

plywood boats are the first thing that

springs to mind is some plywood and I

built her out of mainly out of 10

millimeter WBP exterior ply the bottom

has three layers of 10 millimeter ply

laminated together besides a deck and a

cabin or two layers of 10 millimeter ply

layered together laminated together okay

it's a mainly 12 millimeter ply a single

layer except where they're exterior

barricades where they're double layered

I've got a few she I bought I bought

about 80 sheets of 10 mil and a dozen

sheets of 12 mil and I've got a few

sheets left over so I think I've got

enough plywood to complete the build and

I estimate that lock cost me in the

region of 1,800 euro

built-in plywood but framed in Douglas

fir

and I have to say I had a bit of

douglas-fir in stock which I've tried to

allow for in this number Douglas fir and

I've also included here the black locust

that are bought for the for the trim

exterior I've calculated to be in the

region of 500 euro I think that's about

right and after that of course the whole

thing is sealed in epoxy and covered in

glass cloth fiberglass cloth in epoxy I

bought the epoxy in not the cheapest way

I bought it in gallon containers

basically or a gallon of resin with with

a half a gallon of hardener roughly

speaking it would be much cheaper if you

bought the epoxy in a barrel in a larger

company but that does involve having

somewhere to set that be a barrel and I

found the convenience of the gallon jugs

there outweighed it so I've bought

gallon jugs and I've estimated I've used

in the region of 12 of those at close to

100 euro apiece for the 2-pack is the

two component so 1200 euro I've put up

there for epoxy glass cloth I used a

light cloth on the inside and the

heavier 6 ounce cloth on the outside

I've put 500 euro up there for glass

cloth which I reckoned be in the right

region so the ply layers and any other

bare wood on wood

I've normally speaking I've glued

together with the colano semperoper glue

and I reckon I've spent about 250 euro

on semper rock and of course that was

all or the ply layers at least were

fixed together using their silicon

bronze grip fast ring nails and I've

allowed 250 euro for those various other

fasteners that I use so you some some

bronze screws I used some threaded

bronze rod through the knee a couple of

stainless bolts here and there and

and a few stainless screws not very many

but I've allowed another 250 there so a

total of 500 euro on fasteners I feel is

about right moving on bought various

pieces of paint build paint and some

epoxy primer and some paint undercoat

I've allowed 200 euro for paint and

various pieces of metal some bits of

stainless to make the barrel roll of

fitting up a couple of bits of iron or

steel it was for the engine mounting

plates few bits mill 100 euro and raw

metal I put two water tanks in the front

of the boat which come through roughly

speaking 400 euro and then moving on

I've got the little Dei tank for diesel

which cost me in the region of 50 bucks

I did put those two porks looking

forwards in and I've put in 250 euro for

ports that through stainless ports and

on opening and there's the deck hatch

that's in the raised deck there which

cost about 300 euro then have bought

some electrical equipment battery box

the mains fuse for the shore power that

was a fairly expensive piece of kit and

some wire some terminals a few bits and

pieces I've estimated that to come to

250 so far obviously there will be more

expenses on electrical equipment to come

significantly more but that's what we

spent so far a bigger item one of the

biggest items inside was the composting

toilet that you may remember up all very

nice one bit extravagant Babs that cost

800 euros and then the other major thing

of course is the engine that I bought

secondhand volvo penta md 2010 the

d-series one the best of them I believe

with sale drive the second-hand cost me

3500 euros and now we're getting near

the end so to draw this to a close I'm

sure there are

various bits and pieces that have

forgotten so I've just added 500 euro on

the top of this fur fur sundries and

that brings a sort of grand total of

eleven thousand one hundred euros which

is what I reckon it's cost me to get

this far with the build and and if we're

honest the build is probably about

halfway finished and you can well

imagine that it's about half the expense

I've long imagined or thoughts that I

was looking at in the region of 20,000

euros to build this boat

okay well that's how it looks guys the

the figures are to the best of my

ability for this boat no doubt some of

you ago always rather a lot and perhaps

others going not so bad rather

subjective thing I feel will they go

numbers for this boat thanks for

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