For those who don't think a boat can be built quickly, you might want to check out the small cruising scow currently being built by Yann Quenet and his ongoing photo coverage of the process...
Of course, for our purposes Yann's SKROWL is too small for our VolksCruiser purpose but it would certainly scale up nicely and an 8 meter version would not take very much longer to build all things considered.
Speaking of scaled up scows we're all waiting on some new glimpses of Tad Roberts upscaled Harry or H38...
Cool stuff...