Well, the boat is really a little dingy, it's a 15' boston whaler type boat, have it flipped under the canopy and sanding it down and fixing the 10 years of abuse it's seen. My boats are a 20' cuddy cabin and a 26' pearson sailboat, but the sailboat is a money pit, every few years it's rigging, and sails every 2-3 years, blocks and lines are regular maintainence. I figured it this way, the power boat costs me about 2-3 grand a year, registration, gas, repairs and so forth. The sailboat cost me about 6 grand every other year, and who said sailing is cheap! I found out first hand it's a rich man's toy, and I'm far from rich. But on to the extra, I'm going to keep it simple stupid, basically by plans except where they fail which is small points, the pic's are easy to take and post, so that's no problem. As far as covering, I use monocote and ultracote, there is not bias tward either, you just have to understand either ones application temps. I might do a koverall finish, it will be 10x more durable than iron on plastic, but not nearly as fast. In gereral, the extra is a fast and straight forward build, not much left to the imagination, but they do tend to skip pictures when building it. It's like having a well written and imaged instruction book with sections missing. But having those extra pic's are a real time saver for most people, I think that the money they save on not printing images of every step is a big negative for kit building in general. Goldberg tends to go through every little step for building, just the way it should be.

Now, as far as the work thing, I know what you mean, so far this week, I have in about 53 hours, so my time is limited, but I make the most of it, I assume that I'll end up with about 60+ by monday. But that's the name of the game when your a service tech. Well, off to do a little epoxy/glassing work on the bottom of the boat, but then I'm back the the extra build and painting out my jungmiester bipe as well.