If you are considering a new boat purchase of over 40 feet, you
owe it to yourself to consider building the boat you want.
Why settle for something close when you're spending this kind
of money.
A custom-built boat is only slightly more expensive than a high
quality production boat in either sail or power. Watch your ideas
for your boat go from:
Idea 
Design
Reality
Designs are available as stock plans
or as custom designs.
Some recent custom designs:
Kaufman Design—Custom Runabout
& Plans, Severn 20, a 20' mahogany runabout,
our most recent custom boat with a twist. The "Severn
20" is being produced complete and as plans for amateur builders.
She is styled after a 1940's Chris Craft runabout, but she
is built using modern epoxy building techniques. While designed
to be built by the home builder, she's no slouch. The prototype
speed was 50 knots with 4 people on board!
Kaufman Design—Power
Cruiser, Thomas Point, a power cruiser line
designed to be good-looking, soft-riding, comfortable, quick,
and seaworthy. They are available in lengths of 28, 34, 36, 38,
and 43 feet and built of cedar and plywood using the WEST™
system. This boat began as a custom design for builder Mast
and Mallet Boatworks, however word got out and they now build
it on a semi-custom basis. As of summer 2001, 11 hulls had been
built or commissioned.
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