This restoration is expensive..HELP.

[blockislandguy]

Guys, I love this forum, the community, and the openess everyone exhibits. (Vezo, you're so right, 14 PBRs a day can take over a guy's life but it is really so easy to quit once you get scared.) These projects are gorgeous and I'm envious. I don't know where you can find the time.

But lets talk money. And forecasting. (No, forecasting is not what you do off the bow.) Fifty big ones (the figure mentioned for a resto on a 20 footer) would get you into a 31' Ocean Master CC. Did someone say that an Ocean Master isn't a Seacraft and maybe they can't relate to a 31'? OK, how about a used Mako 23 or 26? One with good tanks and a good transom.

I think that a lot of guys, myself included, have multiple sources of income, some of which our roomate may not be fully aware of. It's easy to dole it out $500 at a whack. Kind of like easy come, easy go. But a little planning ahead might suggest that it would cost less money to do a boat that was in better condition at the beginning.

YMMV