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Welcome Jim!!
Regarding $ to build your own boat . . . you may want to consider building
a simple, dry-ambient sub. Compared to a one-atm sub, it's not expensive
at all.
We're talking epoxy/FRP over a 1/4 inch ply skin, a trolling motor,
maybe two batts with a selector switch, some rebar as ballast, glassed over 2X4
keel, some plexi windows, simple mechanical controls, simple scuba gauges, some
LP line, used dive tanks, maybe some inexpensive bilge pumps and a few
through-hull fittings. I bet you could squeeze in under the price of an
ocean kayak.
If you keep your sub lean and mean, it'll use up less batt power, go
further and last longer - all of that translates into a cheap-to-run sub.
If the idea is to get water over your window this may be a viable project for
you after all.
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Warm regards,
Rick Lucertini
Vancouver, Canada
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