Sept - April. I did all the work at my friends place that is an hour drive each way, so I only got to work on it a few weekends a month. My friend built one before for his seacraft and was building another for his 20 seacraft while I built mine. If I had a mold for the swim platform and the bottom tub . . . it'd make a 100 hour job into a 8 hour job (over 2 days) the material cost is roughly $500.