>>2146215The company I worked for was a 4 man shell builder & they were poor as fuck.
We built a couple of Dutch Barges for circa £20k each & that was a cash cow apparently. (Late 90's) A decently finished article went for around £90/100k.
I think most of the premium on fit out is time. It's pretty inconvenient working without right angles & everything takes ages + masses of space.
If you see a modest 10x57 that needs modernising for a good price I'd be tempted, even though it's surely an endless can of worms you'll regret immediately.
I'm still good mates with the builders son, we built a regular narrowboat for the fussiest most miserable bastard you could ever meet in 1999. He wouldn't let anything go. Total perfectionist. He was obsessed with marine paint. Bought the best & followed behind us with his brush & mirror before the welds were cold practically. Boat people are eccentric as fuck, every one of them.
We were talking about the old days a year or two ago & I asked about chalky & his over-painted semi-trad.
>He's not got it in the water yet, still putting the finishing touches on it.Another crusty hippy customer had us smash the rotten wooden top off her badly corroded boat & replace with steel. Coal mining levels of filth man. Masses of grinding dust/rust/paint. She didn't even move out. She just slept in the workshop on her now filthy mattress with no running water like it wasn't no thing. She was a solid 8/10 in her 20's living the dream though.
>TL;DR>Anything goes 
