This Boat Builder is in Boyne City, MI which is on Lake Charlavoix. I would love to quit my day job and move up there and work in the apprenticeship program they have. Check out the the craftsmanship on their custom boats (there are tons of pics when you click around the site) it just blows me away to see quality like that (I wouldn't even want to guess what some of those boats cost)
http://www.vandamboats.com/

Link...what link???

Is it there now?

Good to go now. I have seen this boat in person...it is just plain awesome

How'd u cut and paste that so quick?

Click on the Susan C and the Alpha Z and you can view the gallery of them being built. Absolutely unbelievable

I am fast with the key strokes...

going thru the construction of "Gonzo" (Tahoe boat)...my gawd...! I'm surprised they don't have some guy in the back room with a dremel tool hand carving engines out of billet steel...

Whatever that boat cost, it kinda makes the price they charge for a 22-minute VEC-hulled boat seem like too much, no?

That is unreal. I'm rather fond of the AlphaZ and Susan C.

I favor Blue Star myself.
Very nice work, no doubt. I put one of thier boats at number 4 on my "Bag of money falls from the sky" list.

I would be over budget just in buying clamps

Wow! I'd love to do an apprenticeship there as well.

Unreal.

Alpha Z 800HP 100mph+

I'm pretty sure there has been another thread on this company, however I'm simply flabberghasted at the level of craftsmanship. They hand fabricate nearly everything for the boat.

I looked through the string of pictures on Susan C and I can't imagine how many hours are in that boat - has to be between 10,000 and 20,000 at least. Looks like about 5 - 10 guys full time. At $50 an hour that would be 1/2 to $1 million in labor alone. And that doesn't even include the mahogany, the stainless steel, the engines, the props, etc.

I'm betting they spent upwards of $1.5 million to get that boat on the water. Beautiful, yes, but wow, when you can buy an equivalent factory built boat for probably $300,000.
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