Epic Launch - s/v Adventuress - Rockport Marine

[Lucky Dawg]

9 minute video: http://www.offcenterharbor.com/videos/bringing-boats-life-rockport-marine/?awt_l=PDVoA&awt_m=3V.w9dhEfr44w9k

more photos at http://rockportmarine.com/boat_details.php?boatID=19&category=5

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[ebb]

Truely. As the owner can be heard saying. 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever...'

A thing of beauty is a joy for everyone.
A wooden yacht that celebrates master craftmanship with the most romantic of all little ships,
A SCHOONER UNDER FULL SAIL
Especially extreme varnished Fife.

Is there anything else that celebrates the human imagination so well? It, indeed, will never slip into nothingness.
Awesome talent and skill and money it took to bring it together.... joy in that too.
Voices in the background music were... ♪OOOOOO ♪OOOO... ♫OOing for a long time until I finally heard them.

[mbd]

70,000 man hours!

[Lucky Dawg]

That's almost 8 years of 24 hour days!

(Mike, I will be out your way mid-June. Sailing from my folks' in Sedgewick.)

[ebb]

70,000 HRS. or one man working 250 days a year = 2000 hrs = 35 years:eek:

2,000 hrs at $50 = $100,000 X 35 = $3,500,000

plus the boat and everything in it and on it and above it.

Labor's cheap, insurance expensive - what's the $$$ value of the schooner?

20,000,000 (?)

[mbd]

I think it was 15 men too. So let's see.... 70,000 hr / 15 men = 4666.6667 hr / man.
Divide 4666.6667 / 8 hr (let's give 'em 8 hr days) = 583.3333 days of work.
Now divide THAT 583.3333 / 365 = 1.59 years.
About 1.59 years? Did I do that right?
Now, when I have work done at a marina, I get charged at least $70 / hr. So.. $4.9 million?
But let's split Ebb's and my figure down the middle. Maybe a project this big gets a discount. $60 / hr X 70,000 = a cool $4, 200,000...
As usual, Ebb's right on.
Yowsa!