I was watching Discovery Wings last night before the Sopranos (my favorite channel followed by my favorite show
) The topic is a multi-part series on building your own aircraft as there a some ways to get into a new "experimental aircraft" for reasonable (cough, choke, gag) dollars. So I went online to price out and a 49% assembled, 2 seat RV-8A would only run me about 50 Large with a couple thousand hours to complete (and then all I'd need to do is insure it, maintain and certifiy it and get my pilot's license)...
Uh Patrick, a boat is an hell of an undertaking too. Wouldn't you want to start off with a decent hull and build from there? How much dinero are you talking about? And no, I won't get into the employment aspect there...