The hulls are actually lighter than a lot of the fiberglass hulls used for pleasure boats, but heavier than those drag hulls you see, but they are very expensive to build, many times the hulls are actually TIG welded, thats what makes them so pricey, there are very few people in the US that can weld like that, sometimes they use a MIG gun. but think of the price of aluminum, a crashed hull can be worth $3k-4k as scrap!
