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I have been looking at designes for quite some time now. My main concerns are build time. How much time will buying a complete kit save? I am most interested in a ob 17, 19 or panga 20. The OB boats state around 200 hours of construction time when the panga is more like a 100 hours. Are the OBs that much more difficult or just more time. Will the precut kits cut the time in half or just some. I also like the ob boats. I live in North Texas I would mostly fish for catfish and bass.
I would like to occasionaly fish on the Texas Coast.


thanks

Sean

About an hour per 4x8 panel. Not a huge time saver. It may save more than that in that the cut parts are all just right so that will also save assembly time. It still won't significantly impact the total project timeline.

I am finishing up a Panga, the biggest mistake I made is not buying a precut kit. Cutting it out takes less time than transferring the dimensions. I would guess transferring patterns and cutting takes 30-40 hours. There is ample opportunity to make an error. There is no way you're going to build one of these in 100 hours. I would say 400-500 is more like it.

The time required to build is a function of experience. I can build any boat that we list in less time than the average labor we mention.
Note that the estimated time is to complete is for a bare hull ready to paint, ready to rig.
It does not include any accessories like installing tanks, rigging the engine, installing electricity etc. It's for the hull only.