Happy days (for the 1%), more bailout bonanza, and in the "little bit late to the party" department...
The other day I was discussing with a friend how one of the hard parts of rehabbing or rebuilding with hindsight is that the destructive part of the process is some kind of seriously depressing.
For instance, the other day there was a very cheap Endeavour 32 for sale that might have been perfect for my plans to find a fixer-upper to use as an example for a book/film project I have in mind...
The Endeavour would make a very good candidate for a junk or balanced lug conversion. It's small enough that a few 2X4's, a half dozen sheets of plywood, some glass, and enough epoxy to use it is all you really need for a completely new, if rather simple, interior. An unstayed mast and a used 6HP outboard in a well would bring it all together...
Now, for my purposes, the best way to deal with such a boat is to simply gut it and refit it from scratch. Trying to work around existing structure slows the process way down and you wind up locked into sorta/kinda doing it pretty much the same as designed.
That said, the gutting and removing of stuff that is still OK is very hard on a psychic level. Whether or not that old alcohol stove works, the mast is still usable, or that one bulkhead is free of rot makes the decision to just rip it out and haul it to the dumpster seem wrong.
On the other hand, trying to find homes for all the stuff you rip out so that it gets recycled would take as long as the rebuild project and likely cost as much...
Something of a conundrum that.
Listening to Sublime
So it goes...
