I’ll just say this last thing. I built a little dinghy last year and have a few learnings or regrets.
I built it heavy about 5kg more than I needed to. Still weighs 40kg including the dinghy wheels (5kg) and I can lift it out of the water up a ramp no worries. I don’t really regret this but if I was doing it again I’d shave off a couple of kilos easy. Most first time builders overbuild, and I have since learnt that the design weight for a plan tends not to include all the heavy things that people like to put in or on their boats.
I picked the wrong plans. So I have a little displacement dinghy where for not much more I could have built a Jon boat twice the size. At the time I was thinking small outboard. But I could have bought a bigger one later. I’m stuck with the boat, until I build the next one.
I could have spent a bit more time on finishing work. I regret this when l look at it in the garage. On the water I couldn’t care less.
I built it out of the best materials I could afford and exactly what the design specified. A lot of engineering goes into a good boat plan. That was a good choice. I have a lot of confidence in it.