Boat I saved from the dump

[bradford]

A few years ago I drug this old girl home for the trailer she was sitting on. She's an early 70's Starcraft. She had a wild cherry tree growing out of the bilge as thick as your wrist. Had to cut it down to be able to drag her down the highway. She was filled with leaf mulch, beer cans, and half the 100 hp Evinrude Starflight was laying in the bow. Also had a good sized carpenter ant nest under the console. Gave her away to a local guy here who was thrilled to have her and fixed her up pretty nice.

Another one saved.

http://savannah.craigslist.org/boa/4486778008.html

AWESOME BOAT & TRAILER FOR FAMILY - $4200 (Wilmington Island)



condition: excellent size / dimensions: 14 ft

Boat & trailer for the whole family. Custom designed 1972 14 ft tri-hull Star Craft for smooth boating. Special features:
22 gallon gas tank
oil and gas mix automatically
60 hp Johnson (great for tubing)
seats expand to lounge seating
life vest
water proof radio/cd player
marine radio
color depth finer
full bimini for shade
full electrical
trailer wired and ready to tow anywhere

• do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers

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[Destroyer]

Bradford, that's a beautiful boat. Lets hope it's next owners are as good as the one that found her and the one that repaired her. Talk about a second lease on life. That boat looks spectacular!!! Simply beautiful.

[Blue_Runner]

Wow it looks really nice. Sounds like the same shape as that one I gave to my buddy who fixed it up.

[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.

[Stinky_Hooker]

Very cool, I had one just like it I tore apart and made into a CC, very good fishing boat.