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I built two small boats as a kid:
==> an 8 foot Glen-L three-point hydroplane (Tiny Titan)... I chose this as a project in 8th grade since my dad had a 5 hp Sea King motor. With some effort (letting go of the tiller and sitting up on the bow deck) I could get it into a plane. To use it in a nearby lake I built a little trailer with a 10 foot 4x4, a 2x4 cross piece, a broom handle “axel”, and a couple wagon wheels. I’d push it down the road a couple blocks and spend a few hours tooling around the lake. 
==> an 11 foot Glen-L runabout TNT)... I chose this boat plan since, with saved money from bagging groceries, I had bought a 12 foot aluminum boat (with a 1956 30 hp Johnson motor and a trailer... I sold the boat but kept the motor and trailer.)  I finished the TNT and started using it after finishing 10th grade. It did over 30 mph and could pull me waterskiing.   (By the way, my son recently claimed my boat after it sat in the back yard for a couple decades. He had built a couple cedar strip canoes and applied his skills to rebuilding the TNT. We then worked together on the 1956 Johnson that hadn’t been used since 1996 - but it did serve as storage compartments for chipmunks - and we will try firing it up soon.)
 

Then came college, marriage, grad school, four kids, and a career. After moving back to Wisconsin, my two sons and I were each paid $100 for playing in the city band for the summer.  My brother-law-law (boat dealer) then called me about boat he took in on a trade... $300... an 18-foot Lund tri-hull (aqua blue... named Miss Tuhla... quaint) with a 180 hp Mercruiser.  My boys and I bought it. It was a fun family boat until the kids got married... great for waterskiing. 
 

During the empty-nest years, I took the ASA 101 and 103 sailing courses plus an independent three-day cruising course. Fun, but chartering a sailboat is just not within prudent budgeting. 
 

I retired as 2019 ended. Hmmm... time for something... what to do?  I somehow stumbled onto the B&B Yachts website. After brief research, I decided to purchase plans for the BRS17... only $85. While looking over the plans and feeling rather intimidated (not really getting the B&B building approaches and all the little unknown details) and having then also done more research, I decided to call in an order with Alan at B&B Yachts for a CS15... the entire set of kits: THE WORKS. I must say that Alan’s comprehensive set of 19 YouTube videos on building the CS15 is what gave me the confidence to make the full investment.

My CS15 kits are being assembled in April 2020... I’m looking forward to making the trip to B&B Yachts to bring “THE WORKS” kit home... I am ready for the boatbuilding project to begin.  I decided that the speedier “end result” of a working sailboat, that I could call my own and enjoy with my family, was more important than taking on the laying out/cutting/fashioning of all the pieces... along with the fact that making the masts/rigging/etc. was beyond what I thought I wanted take on.  So, from me to B&B Yachts... a big thanks for making this project available and (likely) making it possible for me to succeed.