How many man hours and $ in rebuild?

[billythekid]

Originally Posted by Blue_Heron

Depends on your choices and your motivation. Probably less than half the guys that start a full restoration like you're talking about ever finish it. If you are thinking you can have a nicer boat, for less money, by restoring one than what you could buy used, forget it.

On the other hand, if you are good with your hands, are good at problem solving, like learning new skills, and take a lot of satisfaction from creating something attractive and useful from raw materials, sweat, itch, and brain power, sign up, man.

Dave

amen to that, buying one finished is much cheaper on a whole

If you want one done a certain way and dont have th 10k-25k to lay out on a fully restored one you can spread the money out over 2 years during the restoration.

retail places are not your friend during restoration, I spent 20k on my last one and sold it for 5k less not including my time.

I did mine from dec 1st to may working most weekends, nights and some days off during the winter. I will do the next more efficent now that I know how and what I want to do.