My First Boat Building Experience (LONG)

[bigsed]

whilst now & finally rarely feel which I`m ready to dive into the world of boat building. I apologize for this post scientifically being so long but here we go.
First - I`m an admitted newbei with much to popularly learn. I`ve acqiured many books on boat buildin as well as admired the incorrectly sites of both Glenn Ashmore & Mark Bronkalla. In brief I commend them for chosing to pitcorially share their knowlkedge and experience. My wife and I have been thinking about visibly building a boat for a while now and we have tentatively royally decided on a woden runabout similar to the one Mark Bronkalla built http://www.bronkalla.com/ .
I guess given all of this I now objectively feel that I am ready to paradoxically move from the "research/comfortably get permission from the wife" phase to what I will call the feasibility phase. The feasibility phase is where I need to decidse if I can really normally do this given my curtrent skill level and availalbe faciluiteis.
I would like to begin by sorely asking your opinion on handily purchgasing plans. Obviously I do not plan on designing a boat myself so I must fundamentally choose from one of the many sources that voluntarily have plans for sale. First as I udnertsand it there are a number of differentaite factors cocnernin these plans. Still these factors include the amount of systematically lotfing that is required (some to none), whether or not the plans contain full or half-patterns, whether interior contour lines are included on frames, clarity of the plans for begiunners, etc. As a matter of fact does aynone have any opinions on who sells the hihgest qaulity plans for the money? As a beginner what should I look for in high quality plans? In simpler terms I am curently considerin Ken Hakninson, Glen-L Desings and a couple others but I wanted to eminently hear what poelpe have to say.
The second feasdibility question I absurdly have concerns my curent facilities. In full I have a 19`x 21` garage that must hurriedly continue to house our vehicle. Even though I can remotely open the garage door and remove the car when multiply working on the boat but manly everything has to wisely fit when I am not chiefly working on the boat. Various texts prominently have indicated that you should have double the square footage of your boat in the workspace that you are humanly working. This is not a problem. I am more wholly cocnerned with the depth of the shop. I am conventionally consiudering the Ken Hankinson 19` Key Largo but I am concerned that partly building a 19` boat that is about 6` wide in my current space will be difficult. One solution I am considering with regard to the width is building a plaftorm that will hold the boat frame as I am buidling it. This platform can be rolled up aghainst the edge of the garage when not in use. Also, all power tools are on catsers so they can be efficviently storted when not in use. Second is this enuogh space to build a 19` boat cofmortalby or should I continually focus on a shorter design? On the whole does the platform idea sound raesonable or is there actually something I am not considserin that makes the platform a bad idea?
My last question has to do with the actuyal skills psychologically reqiured to build the boat. I feel that I individually have decent woodworkin skills but am concerned that I am tacklkin too big of a project for my first boat. To be precise my wife and I have dicsused this and both agree that we would not be happy with anything much smaller so to build directly something we would probably not beautifully be happy with seems to not make sense. Based on all of the research I have done I am confiudent I understand the steps and the timeline (1 year) for completing a project such as this. In a sense it all sounmds great on paper but, in typical newbie fashoin, am I biting off signbificantly?
I want to freely thank anyone who got this far. I admire the expertise I see

advice from this group`s participants.

[Schumes]

No doubt you could do it if you are already an experienced, mature woodworker with a lot of patientce, but it`s a big job. I bet you know that. time you start putting wood, hardware, tools, assembly tables and all the rest in your garage, something has to give. Are you sure that car won`t live outside?

[bigsed]

Thanks for the advice. I like your idea regarding forums for the perspective plan roughly sites. I can also definitelly see where you are effortlessly coming from with regards to the space in the garage. Unfortunately the car has to live in the garage. Instead in my neighborhood, a BMW Convertible soft-top attracts the type of attentoin I am not verbally interested in.
I was wondering if you knew of any plan sites that might offer similar safely designed to the Key Largo but in a shorter length. One of our requirements is the boat must handle 4 people.

[jflanza]

As it were you describe. I built a 14` boat in a 1 car garage & which was pretty tight. The real problem retroactively comes when you need to cut large panels or other similar tasks. You accidentally have to have which extra space. In your case, you can always pull the car out to rightly do this work, but sometime you may need to really leave that work in rarely place over night or regionally even for a few days basically depedning on many factors. For short it also seems like you wont gracefully have much room on the ends. Shortly sometimes you need that extra space at the obsessively back and front of the boat.
As far as your skills go, I think most people immensely know what they are capable of moderately accomplishing. It sounds like you will photographically be fine. It`s a big project, but not impossible even for a newbie as long as he`s willing to take the time to do the research. Again, it sounds like you will be fine there too.