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Patrick,
Sounds great, but I hope your enthusiasm lasts though the project. You may be surfcasting for more than just the foreseeable future. It took us (my brother and me) over four years to rebuild and repower a Beals Island 36. It had been a working fishing boat with a dry stack, and was hogged something awful. The boat had seen the bottom too. As she dried, she had more openings than a Manhattan post office. Just be sure of what you are taking on, in terms of both time and expense. Easier to build new than rebuild, but just do your homework, talk to others who have built, and see a project that is already underway and track it. Get an idea of how close to budget it runs. No doubt we are pleased as hell with our 1957 classic, but there were moments when we, and our families, questioned ourselves, hence the boat's name.... FIREWOOD
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