Thanks guys! Your help is appreciated!
Clint

: A lot depends on the type of boat you build. Some plywood boats built in a
: stitch and glue manner are only covered with glass cloth on the outside.
: That cuts the cloth cost in half. One model only covers the seams with
: glass cloth. That rally cuts costs.

: If you do a bit a shopping you'll find that epoxy runs about $30 to $65 a
: gallon depending on brand and supplier. Typically you'll use one or 2
: gallons. Buy 1. If you need more you'l find out toward the end of the
: project and hopefully you'll have saved a few bucks to buy it then, or
: found other project sto use it for, or you can buy just a quart if you
: jsut need a small quantity.

: Glass cloth goes from $2 to $8 a yard, depending on width and thickness of
: the cloth (measured in the weight of a square yard). Wider cloth might be
: a deal if you can cut it so that you use less length.

: Tools to go with this are mostly disposables. Budget $30 for stuff you'll use
: once and then trash.

: If you plan to make the boat for extra heavy use, you'll use more glass and
: resin.

: If you are building a stripper you can compensate for some of the cost
: through cutting our own strips.

: If you are looking to build a less expensive boat you might consider using
: polyester resin instead of epoxy. About the least expensive boat you can
: build is made from lauan plywood, polyester resin, and glass cloth strips
: cut from a square of cloth. Quite a few stitch and glue designs can be
: built from these materials, but not all.

: And of course the lesat expensive method is skin on frame. For the price of
: the resin and glasscloth of a wood kayak (andr maybe a bit less than that)
: you can build an entire Walrus from George Putz's book. Building a Walrus
: frame and planking it with lauan, as Mike Hanks did, would run about $250
: or less. You would seal the wood with two coats of resin, but glass cloth
: would be optional.

: Hope this helps.

: PGJ