Hello. I am toying with the idea of building 1 (or possibly up to 4 if I want to race friends/family) small, under 10 feet hydros of the sort that at least the bottom can be built with regular, marine-grade plywood as opposed to hard-to-find and expensive mahogany plywood. I was thinking of possibly building a mini-most boat (not sure if you could really call it a hydroplane), but I would prefer to build a plan with the sort of flying saucer shape that is common on hydros of the 50’s if there are plans without the use of mahogany. I do not mind working with cloth decking but would like to keep this project under 100 hours of physical construction minus painting for each boat, and under $400 per boat. It might be a bit of overkill in the mini-most in particular, but I was thinking of putting stock Mercury KE-7 or KG-7s on said hydros if this comes into fruition.
"Outboards seem to multiply exponentially..........I find that for every finished project, there are two more waiting to be completed."
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