John Fereira wrote:
"Moby Dick" wrote in
oups.com:

Maybe he meant 5 figures in Swedish kroner.....


Nope. Five figures in US dollars. I've seen a couple sites that custom
cedar strip boats with a price tag over $10,000. Here's one example:
http://www.cedar-strip.com/pages/services.html

On the other hand, I spent about $750 to build my cedar strip Outer Island

Yes, but you were building a boat. The 12 kilobuck example there is
described as "An art exhibit and collector's item." I think you need to
be deeply into the conspicuous consumption mindset to buy a $12K kayak.
Don't think that's exactly what our friend Moby had in mind.

Steve

Usenet note: I seem to be middle posting here. There are groups where
top posting is preferred, I believe. My preference is to comment
directly below the statement I'm replying to.


On Feb 11, 6:55 pm, Steve Cramer wrote:
John Fereira wrote:
On the other hand, you can also buy pre-built cedar strip boats.
I've seen them advertized from several places in the 5 figure range.
Do you really mean 5 figures, as in $10,000+ or 4 figures, the first
of which is a 5? I can agree with the second. Careta Boatworks makes a
nice stripper for ~$5000. I think Allen Sinquefield's baidarkas are
quite a bit less.
http://www.sinquefieldcustomboatworks.com/index.htm

Of course, they're not in Sweden

Steve