How long does each boat take to build?
The hours amateur builders actually logged, design by design. Each figure is the median of the total hours in the public build logs of that boat, with the range from the quickest to the slowest. Boats already launched are counted apart from builds still under way, whose hours are only “so far”.
No design has enough logs with hours yet. A design appears here once at least 2 public logs of it have recorded their hours.
How this is measured
A build counts when its log is public, belongs to an active member, is not one of the site’s example logs, and has recorded some hours. Its figure is the sum of the hours on its entries. Restorations and modifications are left out: putting an old hull back together, or fitting out a boat, is not building one.
A median is shown only when at least 2 builds are behind it, so no figure on this page is one person’s hours. Logged hours leave out whatever went unwritten, so if anything they run low. Medians across every kind of boat, and the hours by step, are on the numbers page.