You're welcome Cosmo, that's what we're here for... help fellow riders around the globe... 
@080: A hole in the water huh... tsk, tsk, How about a small runabout for just some island hopping... the one I can tow with my car/truck to the beach... may that might be a smaller hole on the water... what do you think...?
Vivo, short of joining the hull truth I'd strongly suggest going onto reputable builders web sites to see what methods they use to construct their boats. No wood is important as if you get water in between the inner and outer hull the wood will become water logged and never ever dry out, it will start to rot and you are dead. A smaller boat is less expensive but still costs money.
let me know what size you would like most and I'll advise you as I can. Bear in mind with a boat we don't talk about MPG or KPG, it's Gal. per hour or GPH. In my case a modest size boat when cruising I burn about 5 gal per hour at maybe 25 MPH at WOT wide open throttle I top out at 40 MPH and 10 GPH. You can go on the Yamaha web site and look up almost any boat/motor combination you can imagine and get performance numbers.
For the sake of this forum send me a PM with an outline of what type of boating and conditions you'd expect to be in, what size boat you'd really like and what is the smallest you think you could stand to live with. Smaller boats around me run just over 1K per ft larger boats like the one in your photo would run 50-75k easy, she looks real nice but they all do when they are new.
