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Include Here:

Time
Tools
Materials
Costs
Notes

Time Invested

From the purchase of my plans  until the day of launch was Seven Months.

Actual Time invested by my records was 21 - 8 hour days...  Rounded up for slop call it 23 days.
Days working on The Trailer were not counted as Boat Work!

Tools

• 3/8"s Drill - for small holes and Phillips Head attached for screws

• 1/2" Milwaukee for the Big Boy Drilling

• Box of assorted Drill Bits

•  9" Circular Sander (borrowed) and 3 1/2" Belt Sander

• Skil Saw - required

• Milwaukee Sawzall

• Block Plane or Electric Plane - purchased for this project

• Chop Saw - very handy, but, not necessary

• Various and Sundry Phillips and Screw Drivers

• 20 (more or less) C-Clamps or other type Clamps - provide an
  'extra' hand and to hold panels and etc. while Epoxy (glue) dries

• Dremel Tool - not require, but, very handy

• 1/2", 3/4" or 1" chisel... one, not necessarily all

• Ratchet Wrench - 3/8" drive, sockets and an extension

• Crescent Wrenches - 6" and 9" - one or the other will due

• Box and Open End Wrenches - up to 3/4" - 3/4" probably not necessary

• Hammer

• Pry Bar

Material List

I should note here that the material list I used from my plans, wasn't completely accurate.   I would
suggest, here, that the same is probably true of My List.  Use it as a Base and buy any short-fall as needed. 
I purchased my materials at Lowes as it was closer than Home Depot.  I used Standard & Better Lumber
that I hand-picked from the racks...  My Bolts & Nuts and Screws were all Stainless Steel.  The Screws were
neither screw or phillips heads, but, used a square drive that were ordered from and sent to me by
Jeff @ Spira International who also supplied my plans.

Actual Material List

I dealt with all of my Suppliers On-Line, E-Mails and/or by Telephone.  I had No Problems with any of these Folks and can not understand any reticence to do Business-by-Computer as long as the People are checked-out and aren't unscrupulous. 

These Costs I've listed are approximately what I paid.  These can be modified as you see fit.  For example, I would probably use a Good Quality, Oil Base House Paint instead of the Marine Paint I used.  It's entirely too expensive.  All repainting of my Orange Boat will be with oil base house paint.  Oars may be found cheaper... or perhaps, you'll only use a motor... or vica-versa.  Anyway, you should get the picture.

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