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Originally posted by JohnR
Do you want to build a boat? Or do you want to fish?
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That is REALLY the question you HAVE to answer. Think hard. You are going to invest serious time and some real $$ in that "craft"...what will you end up with?
If you want to fish, buy a used but solid, fiberglass boat w/decent power and go fishing tomorrow. Look around, you can get a ol' mako with and working OB for LESS then what it would cost to do your rebuild and you could be fishing tomorrow. Even if you have to borrow money to get your rig...at least you have something that is safe, useable, fishable and sellable. Even a wooden boat like that model in good shape is a hard sell these days...IMHO: It will be a never ending nightmare, it takes ALOT longer they you think to do it, and ALOT more $ then you estimate, in the end you will hate everything about it... unless you have deep pockets and the strong desire to restore wodden boats for art sake.