Pic of a V getting crushed at a landfill

[Destroyer]

I used to buy boats or free haul away junks, strip them and then scrap them. Cost me $89 a ton or part of a ton before I got a permit that allowed for the actual weight rather than "any part thereof". Anyways, I've scrapped several dozen. Never lost money on any one of them. You can always find useful items on old boats.. anchors, chocks, rope, porta potties, coolers, you name it, I've probably found it. (Even found a small outboard under a front dodger once)... I've never scrapped a V20.... Renkins, Cruisers, Inc, Bayliners even a few Whalers (with huge holes in them)... If I bring home another boat I'm going to have to find a new wife... and the one I have has a high replacement cost, so I'm pretty much out of that business.

[bradford]

Yep, I only lose money on the ones I keep. The ones I flip are pretty profitable which then goes to offset the cost of the ones I keep.

I picked up a 15 horse mariner that had been laying in the weeds and was thought to be locked up, turned out it was in gear.

Painted and sold God only knows how many danforth anchors.

I call my wife "The Enabler". At one point I owned 10 boats and 14 trailers.

Whats funny is I'll be out running the V or the skiff and see other boats or engines I've owned before in the river or the sound pretty often. One was a boat I sold to a guy that had an engine that I had sold to another guy on it.