about that near derelict Columbia for $500 and why you might want to consider it...

Flying the unfriendly skies, very well said, and in the "what are our moral paragons up to these days?" department...

I was just reading a post over at Gin & Tacos and it got me thinking about the longevity of production boats.

Or, to be more precise, how well boats built in the 60's and 70's have held up over time.

Want to do something interesting? Go look at some near derelict boat for sale for nearly nothing and let it tell you its story...

Sure, you'll find a little rot and lots of stuff that needs fixing but the basic boat will, in most cases, still be sound.

Fact of the matter is the hardest part of fixing up most old boats is not so much the fixing part but the horrible task of taking stuff apart and removing it...

Well, actually, I've found the worst part of fixing old boats tends to be the removing and sorting out the rampant stupidity/bright ideas of previous owners but then that's just my opinion.

A quick rule of thumb about buying old boats for rehab is that if it floats and costs less than the price of the lead in the ballast it's a doable project.

More on this subject soonish...

Listening to Faux Ferocious

So it goes...