Most EXPENSIVE Tiny Boat Build offs.

everyone i wanted to talk to you a little bit about how much it costs to build these elite level tiny boats that we've been building i just built two back-to-back one by myself one with my crew and those are both the most expensive boats that i have ever built personally in terms of stuff in and i want to explain to you the difference between what i think is really part of the boat and what i think is not but they all jumbled together to make the price range i did do a cost analysis on the lund dv aluminum hall boat that i did a long time ago like a few years ago maybe over a few years ago and that one was between three and four grand uh maybe a little bit more than that but it wasn't much more than that if you wouldn't tackled it yourself like all parts in and these boats definitely there was a giant shift in terms of material i want to go through them line item first for this last boat that i ran and then for the alumacraft v14 that i did i want to give you guys both the cost breakdowns and how things shifted to get the entire end product also i will leave all of this right down here in the description area below you just gotta click to expand it if you're watching on the pc it's a little click to expand arrow and if you're watching on the phone it's a little bit more discreet but you still can expand the description area you can see all of it line item verbatim right there if you're looking at what you need for a project like this and these projects can all be bought on our store in fact this boat that i'm going to talk to you about right now all those parts for that boat we're from our store who the blue what i nicknamed the blue diamond it was this last boat i'm not even sure what that boat was called but it was a 16 and a half foot dv aluminum hole that we tried to deck out to the max with the budget we had just keep that in mind all right for the aluminum kit the framing the lids the welded boxes the live weld the cooler you know the aluminum sheets the rivets and the powder coat all of that together was right around 4 500 for framing that was estimated by nate who supplied all that stuff additionally for wiring we're talking about like everything we're talking about six gauge duplex eight gauge duplex 10 gauge duplex for 12 gauge and 14 gauge duplex all those were put into there and we had to get significant amounts of spools obviously the thicker the wire the more expensive it was per part and there was a lot of wire i couldn't even tell you how much how many feet of wire were in there but it was a lot i think i worry about marine connectors heat shrink tubing fuses the breakers the battery selector switches the wire ties the looming the braided expandable sleeving the switch panel itself which was a more advanced switch panel generally i kind of fabricate one that one was pre-made and had its own dry hatch lip that was like a drop in panel that was on the that was on the the upside yeah two fuse blocks one sixth gang one twelve gang i had a few fuse holders all that stuff including the lights some of the leds not the led kits that lit the whole thing but there was leds and other stuff inside the compartments themselves all that was like right around a grand it was a lot of money let us not forget the really implicit silent expensive killer latches for the boat hatches so these cam liver latches there were eight of them and it was like 240 dollars for like latches so that was expensive we stuck gator skins non-skid in a lot of the critical places that we're gonna take the most abuse because that stuff's really tough so we can estimate it between another one and two hundred dollars for that we had high output underwater leds uh bilge pumps three kits of foam that are about a hundred bucks a piece you had cup holders we had eight sheets of that snow camo hydro turf that was probably about a thousand dollars or so that's a lot of sheets of hydro turf we had a 350 dollar flow right kit premium flow right kit from our site we dropped that thing in there that was cool we had some custom nav lights he had the shark navs in the front those are pretty awesome at the cmc power tilt that was uh expensive we also added quite a few decals to the boat and just like random hardware stainless steel hardware and other associated fasteners we definitely absolutely spent a bare minimum of 100 bucks likely more we estimated the whole cost there to be right at or over nine grand so it's just under or just over nine grand give or take that was for raw materials into that boat and not the external mods i i consider external mods anything that you can drop into the boat and take out and put into another boat so it's a part of the boat as long as it's there but it's not actual materials like raw materials in that are like irreplaceable so pretty much the framing the decking and the wiring and the live wall plumbing like the plumbing audio is associated you know the lights all those associated components in the boat are like raw materials in the boat that make the boat what it is like from the ground at the hub those that's the part that i'm the most concerned about because everything else is just an add-on so we're talking about the external add-ons the external mods the external accessories that also made the boat pop so for instance we had a four bank min coat of precision onboard battery charger that's a very very popular charger out there that was right around 400 we also had four batteries four batteries there's a lot of batteries all right and at least one or two of those are agm batteries so we're looking at 600 minimum maybe more i know we had at least one agm in there and i know there was some lead acid if there were two agm in there that was about 300 bucks a piece there's there were substantially more so we're maybe looking more like 800 600 low and 800 high end for the batteries and then we had three seven inch uh hummingbird helix g3n fish finders one was just a standard chirp fish finder that we just ran specifically for maps you just had it for maps there was it didn't it wasn't connected to transducers or nothing it was just specifically a chirp gps for maps the other one was a side imaging a mega si and the front one was a mega di that connected to a motor guide 80 pound thrust i think a xi3 trolling motor and the xi3 is actually the cheapest spot lock trolling motor you can get that's controlled by a remote it has a foot pedal but the foot pedal sucks sucks really bad but the remote's awesome in fact uh nick a buddy of mine and also a partner here uh with tiny boat nation his uh v18 that i redid for him that one has an xi3 and it handles that that big basketball pretty well so it's gonna handle this sport pretty well on top of that we got a uh hummingbird two motor guide adapter so that the mega di from that transducer would work with the trolling motor so pretty sweet setup what did it run there five grand estimated total for all external mods and accessories in grand total for this boat was we have it estimated at fourteen thousand and thirty nine dollars total cost for everything in that's not to include the boat in the motor which i think he got the whole thing for two grand i wish i would find a boat like that for two grand he had that motor on there and that was a pretty robust you know those old johnsons is all the ever roots those things do quite well so that was there so a little bit of money saved on keeping the two-stroke a little bit of money saved on getting the boat here's the cool thing about that here's the cool thing about that though a lot of people are like why would you throw that money inside a little tin boat with a waste of money that all the materials in the boat are worth more than the actual boat well just so you know he went to like his insurance company to get it appraised because that was a big huge reason why uh we helped him out with the boat anyways because the boat got ruined and stuff wasn't done right before so he took all the receipts all the work he showed us the videos to his insurance agency of what we did and they appraised it for i think 27 grand like a lot like it was appraised for a lot like the boat is worth almost 30 grand i praise that just under 30 grand and that's pretty good because that to me is definitely a 30 000 vote if you were going to go to a showroom and try and get something like that everything it has in it all the stuff it was able to handle everything he was able to do at depot is easily 30 grand so now for the alumacraft v14 which is cheaper in some x areas and much more expensive in other areas but you know this is like my favorite boat and maybe the best boat i've ever built for the 14-foot platform it is the best boat i've ever built i mean and there there's a lot of reasons why it was built this way i haven't done a reflection video on the alumacraft b14 but i'm going to do it here i mean you're going to kind of get a little glimpse of it here but i'm going to really do a reflect video it but so a fairly different shift like a dynamic shift in in the cost here so for the illumicraft it was still about a grand for electric there's about i have it estimated here at a thousand nineteen dollars for pretty much everything that boat had a lot of wiring that boat probably had more wiring than the blue diamond that we just talked to you about that boat had so much wiring good it had so much wiring and then i'm not going to laundry list the electric to you again but pretty much the same thing we stuck into that boat we stuck into this boat for like the framing in the deck it was a different system so this is where like he saved money because for nate's drop in dry hatches and all the associated components that go with that that is substantially more money because of like how it's made that they're like precision made welded and powder-coated hatches that you're just able to drop in once you have the boat framed you can drop them in there and then that's like the hatch plus he had the welded box for like the liner and so all aluminum welded dry hatch liners and lids that was that was expensive for the blue diamond we substantially cut costs down here because we used my gen x system which is my version of non-welded aluminum lid systems where i figured out a way for anybody with a vision in a dream to make their aluminum lids without having to use a welder and it's a pretty seamless uh flawless look you don't see too much you for all anybody else knows they're welded but it's just rivets and brackets and tubing and sheet metal and you really get a good you really get a good outcome so i'm pretty happy about the gen x lid system and then there was a gen x framing which is supposed to be my lightest dry hatch framing ever where we kind of get rid of the whole catch lip it's not a full bleed out system but it is a water diversion lip and it works really well i have it on my boat it's completely outfitted on my boat and it works fantastic in terms of diverting water away and out and keeping them out of the hatches in the lids because we're using lighter aluminum for this boat because it was a lighter boat and it was a smaller boat and because there are certain things that have to come with a smaller boat like this like literally the 14 could have fit inside that other boat could have ate in this boat so we had to use lighter framing in general we ran all one sixteenth inch aluminum sheet metal or the other one there was like point zero nine and one eighth inch sheet metal for a lot of the boat but that was a lot bigger boat it could take a lot more weight and it was going to be distributed a lot better versus this boat we use all 116. so stuff was cheaper i mean the fastest and hardware were still around 200 bucks for everything we had channel lid supports for a lot of the larger hatches because it was 1 16 and we wanted to make sure that didn't bow in we bought a little bit of 20 oz carpet about 150 for the carpet to carpet the four sides uh the the front back corners you know the corners carpeted them because that's where we would lay the rod butts i never explained that into the video kind of annoying i forgot but we did that because the rails and the lures would not mess up the carpet snagless 20 oz carpet honestly carpet is the toughest thing out there way more tough than the turf but we turfed everything else because it was i mean turf is just much more comfortable and it's much more aesthetically pleasing now the due to the pictures that we based buying the turf off of the pictures a little bit um misleading the turf came in a lot lighter than we expected it to be and if we didn't know it was gonna be so light we would have got the darker stuff because it would have been the right color but that was just whatever it was we had already bought it we didn't want to turn back on it we also used the black tip uh snow camo foam that was pretty plentiful on amazon until like the whole stuff happened and everything started becoming scarce we had some amazon uh like eva from like the gray stuff that we use in the under lids because it wasn't high quality like the orthodex stuff that we stuck on top but we did use some of that to address the under lids we tried to address all the thoughts we end up getting a lot of black tip and addressing the entire things there's also gator skins non-skid and all the major compartments and on the floor on the bow and on all the sides where it was crucial but pretty much the entire boat was either foamed or skinned or carpeted not not there was really not a whole lot of bare surfaces left so we had cam latches and we had a lot of cam latches there was like a lot more cam latches there's a lot more lids and so it was closer to like 500 bucks with like the cam like like the latches it was live i don't know it was that much but it was wait it was over 3 000 and it was closer to 500 i'm sorry it was way over 300 it's closer to 500 once we bought all the latches it was like we bought a lot of latches there was a lot then there was the struts and the joints that's another thing we didn't stick struts in the other boat um because felder didn't really need him that was that was at john's discretion we had an all http really super robust thick live wall box not the aluminum one but we had a really robust thick hdpv box and we had the fluorite premium kits in kit then but we upped that we put an oxygenator in there and that really kind of put that kid on the next level in terms of what it's able to do and and how it's able to take care of the fish over time the through-hole fittings the bilge the hose the pumps all that stuff right around 5 683 dollars so you know mid 5k to build a boat like that considering everything that's in that boat and what it's able to do i'd say that that is a freaking still if you're going to try and build an elite level tiny boat in a small boat like that where you had horsepower and boat length caps or if you just wanted a 12 a 14 foot boat for whatever reason that was a boat i wanted to build forever this is a boat i had tried to build before but like failed to build because i ran into problems with the previous owners during like you know who and what and the time level and then who was gonna pay for what and so that was uh i never was able to actually complete it the way i was to complete this one i bet it i mean i talked to this guy for a while and vetted him out to see if he was going to flake me the way the some of the other people did not everybody i want to clear that up not everybody was that was a flake that i ever dealt with i i kind of made that seem a little dramatic really there's only about four people and two of them were good until they weren't but there's just two people that were really terrible talk to you about that in a later video but it was the majority of them are okay but some of them come out really stellar so with the uh the lund came out stellar the v 18 tracker for the most part up until the very very end came out stellar and then you know that was okay because the owner was there helping me rush the v18 and he was cool with it when it left and we're gonna fix those things later it's all good and then uh obviously this v14 i feel really good about i feel really good about that and i feel really good about my boat so like four the four most stellar boats i think that i have all ran those systems i'm just saying between five and six grand will build you a really really nice elite level tiny boat from like the ground up in terms of materials if you want an ultra light boat if you need an ultra light boat for for both that are generally 16 foot in in a big and like above you don't really need to build an ultra light boat and that's you know you just maybe you're looking a little bit more towards robustness and stability and that's where like nate's hatches really thrive they do really really good in a bigger boat and so you just to slim it down a little bit and so the gen x kit really helps slim that down slim down cost and also slim down the weight and that allows to stick a butt ton of crap inside this boat without it being overweight because you can seriously overweight a boat like this like very very very easily especially like you know you can eat at the weight you can eat up your weight limit that was a really robust boat by the way had an obscene safe working load but we could have easily exceeded that with everything we threw in if we weren't careful with the raw materials into the boat it's the most important part when you're trying to accomplish stuff like that i thought it came out all right but that was just like one tail right spent about nine grand in the other boat and raw materials in and only about five thousand in external mods this is where it shifts you spend up like less than six grand about 5600 into this boat but check out the external mods because that's where i mean they really complemented this boat very well i thought you know you got you got your great from the ground up really good base and if you have a really good base everything you stick on top of it just really accentuates the boat very very well did it for the blue diamond and especially for this boat it did it so in this boat we have obscenely like big accessory list so we're going to talk about those things so we had the battery charger that was about a 470 battery charger that was pro charging systems like professional series charger that had a specific algorithm that they had in their system that is the best charger on the market term because they make specific algorithms to go with each style battery so you have like lead acid agm lithium they have a specific algorithm that helps charge those and optimize those batteries so they last the longest and they have an algorithm that actually backs off right at the very end and make sure it has a full charge this is a way kind of like how you pour soda into a cup you have to back it off a little bit so the fizz goes down and you top it off they it has that in it no the battery charging system to my knowledge has that like they're pretty pretty specific like that so that one was in there that was pretty cool thank you dual pro for that we also had the boss system it's a standalone charger needs no coordinates no additional cord it helps balance your batteries out while you're on the water to get the max amount of range out of the batteries that was pretty sweet they had the battery fuel gauge specifically for lithium batteries a little bit more expensive than the regular fuel gauge because you need to do a few things for lithium the lithium setup was a little taxing i'm gonna lie it was uh it was complicated the lithium stuff complicated the build substantially not only because we had to wait six additional weeks for the battery like almost two months we waited for those batteries because they were behind shipment because of everything which pushed us into the heat of the summer which really screwed up my timeline because i could really only work on it so many days in the searing humid lake havasu summer which leads me to dakota lithium batteries it's about three grand for all those batteries they're 100 amp hour batteries they're pretty sweet though i'm not gonna lie they're nice he got a cmc power tilt that thing was pretty sweet that was 650 bucks brand new so all that stuff was whatever it was a lot of that was i mean you can either consider you consider a lot of that maybe raw materials in because a lot of that stuff just stays in the boat it's really hard to remove without screwing the boat up so like that was on the line in terms of external mods or actual raw materials where you actually get super high in external mods that can be taken on and off the boat it will we start to get into him now where he had two 10 inch solex you know i think their g3 n or g4n mega di mega si he had two of those that was like five grand right there for those he had a garmin echomap 106 sv that he linked to a garmin panoptix life scope unit then he had the sea light pole that was another x 100 a few hundred bucks i think he had the hummingbird mega 360 on top of an ultrex so the ipilot link so he had the he had like a full bird setup he really went full bird there it was like flying away on top of this he didn't have like the old two-stroke cheap motor he went there's a yamaha f-25 a brand new one i think low-end with nothing in them they're like 33 3 400 that's for taxes when you when you end up like going and buying a motor they're gonna hit you with like 400 in taxes any state so like 3800 just under four grand out the door you're going to get a motor like that stock so that one was up that one had electric start that one it was a long shaft so i'm thinking it costed over four personally then the lumbercraft v14 by itself was like four grand plus i think he might have bought it as a pair so i think the boat was actually nine or ten like nine ish or ten grand plus i think he wouldn't actually bought that boat brand new off a lot and brought it up here but the total cost for that boat everything considered was at 30 grand 30 grand 30 000 so i hope he goes and gets it appraised by insurance the way john did for his blue diamond boat and he gets he gets it appraised for that much because that was an expensive boat that was an obscenely expensive tiny boat it was so expensive i didn't even want to test it out you know i have pretty cocky you know ego i guess is not a real good thing you know when i think about it it's probably pretty bad because like he was like can you do this can you do this i'm like i can do anything i'll do whatever you know i'll do it all like if i can't do it then what am i kind of like you know what i think and then somewhere down line when i was installing it and i and i held a 10-inch solix in my hand and then i held the one and i held all this stuff and i was like you know if something happens to these for me to have to back one of these like being replaced that's gonna really man i'm having turns to back this and then it kind of hits you you know you know i i don't i'm doing this on my garage on my professional shop that's insured and so i was like i started kind of flipping out i was looking like a man i like held those things like it was a baby it was like coddling it and pet you know like there's another story i'll talk to you all about the experience of building that boat but a lot of it was a little nerve-wracking to have that much stuff in your garage anyways that is what i got for you guys the most ridiculous tiny boats that i have ever had a chance to build what i would consider as elite level tiny boats all the way that's what i want to build elite level boats on the aluminum side i also have a bunch of other ideas that i want to build for you guys i mean we just really beat the elite level aluminum tiny boat to death i want to start doing some glass boats some stuff i want to show you guys some like some some skips you can make out of wood and check them out i do a lot of cool things i want to i want to definitely do a lot of it and then we'll do more cost videos on those

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Published: Wed Jan 13 2021