Boat I saved from the dump

[bradford]

Thanks y'all. I just find them, clean them up, strip off any bs hardware/additions and keep anything I might want/need/might be able to make some money off of and then sell them or give away the hull. It will surprise you the before and after of just what shoveling them out and giving them a good bleach bath will do. Done 29 so far. This is one of them that I know of that the new owners did damn near a full restoration on and are using regularly. I'd like to do the work myself if I had the time/work area. Working on having a boat shed in the yard where I can have a good work area and make things easier. Have a few right now that I'm hanging onto to go through and fix/restore one day.

The problem is I keep finding new ones! Got 2 new ones on the horizon.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by bradford

Thanks y'all. I just find them, clean them up, strip off any bs hardware/additions and keep anything I might want/need/might be able to make some money off of and then sell them or give away the hull. It will surprise you the before and after of just what shoveling them out and giving them a good bleach bath will do. Done 29 so far. This is one of them that I know of that the new owners did damn near a full restoration on and are using regularly. I'd like to do the work myself if I had the time/work area. Working on having a boat shed in the yard where I can have a good work area and make things easier. Have a few right now that I'm hanging onto to go through and fix/restore one day.

The problem is I keep finding new ones! Got 2 new ones on the horizon.

For a long time I was doing the same thing in my spare time. It was hard because of a lack of room where I lived at the time, but I'd manage to do about one a month. Many of them I just stripped and then scrapped, (because of internal damage or whatever), but it's amazing what you can sell on eBay or CL. I don't think I ever lost money on one, and on most I made quite a few hundred.

[Stinky_Hooker]

Found an old pic.


I restored it. This was as a walk thru and then when I started doing the cc...made a front deck. I wished I'd took pics of the after.