I'm building a boat this summer

[Snorkel]

this summer my buddy and I are going to embark on an epic quest to build an authentically designed steamboat... 22ft long, 7ft wide, 15-40hp steam engine. We'll cruise down the Mississippi at 6-10mph and be awesome.

[Selkie]

Awesome.

I always wanted to get a nice house off the Jersey Shore and get a boat. Then occasionally when I feel daring, travel to Bermuda on my boat, since it's not too far down the coastline, I think parallel to South Carolina.

[superclucky]

do you have a boating license for that ma'am

[LCK]

can i help

[Blaze-Senpai]

Total Cost?

[The artist formally known]

man i want to build one of those fishing boats now 

[ncba93ivyase]

Some of my friends built a raft last year to get across a river and go camping.

I'll do something like that someday in Europe... alone. :'(

[The artist formally known]

Some of my friends built a raft last year to get across a river and go camping.

I'll do something like that someday in Europe... alone. :'(

but the sea monsters will eat you@

[Snorkel]

do you have a boating license for that ma'am

it'll go under 25mph, so I don't think we need one, but there's no boat cops on the river anyway, just on big residential lakes

whoever asked about cost, the engine components will cost about $1000, and wood/other supplies will probably total up to another $500.

[ncba93ivyase]

it'll go under 25mph, so I don't think we need one, but there's no boat cops on the river anyway, just on big residential lakes

whoever asked about cost, the engine components will cost about $1000, and wood/other supplies will probably total up to another $500.

Or you could just chop down your own wood/find your own logs.

[Snorkel]

Or you could just chop down your own wood/find your own logs.

it's pretty hard to create large sheets of plywood with uniform thickness from scratch

[Socks]

It would be cheaper to buy an old yet still float worthy boat hull from a shipping graveyard and fit it with a relatively cheap motor, then "pimp" it out with the extra cash.

[ncba93ivyase]

It would be cheaper to buy an old yet still float worthy boat hull from a shipping graveyard and fit it with a relatively cheap motor, then "pimp" it out with the extra cash.

Or superglue two old boats together and wrap them in tinfoil to make a submarine.

[The artist formally known]

Or superglue two old boats together and wrap them in tinfoil to make a submarine.

oh god yes

[Snorkel]

Or superglue two old boats together and wrap them in tinfoil to make a submarine.

That's a fairly good idea

@Socks:
the fun part here is boat building, not boat ownership