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Is cleaning, painting, repairing and upkeeping FG is harder than Wood? I never work on a boat but have some experience with wood.

The reason I'm asking is that I found two boats that match my criteria. Trailerable, small enough to operate single handed, big enough to stay one or two days out. One of the boats was 1970's custom boat made out of wood apparently well keep and in good running conditions. Price was 6k. Then...

Hat are the advantages/disadvantages of wood, fiberglass, aluminum, or any other material in boat construction?

So the cost may be then. Price of the boat +tax (Trailer if the tralier is not included with the boat), registration, insurance that allow me to trail the boat. Does the boat need to be inspected by Coast Guard before been use?

What I'm interested in a trailerable trawler or similar. May concern regarding the budget is about registration, insurance, fees or similar. Depending on the condition I will need to create a repair budget for the boat, but I would like to know from the point that I buy the boat to the...

What costs do I have to consider when preparing the budget to buy a boat other than the price of the boat + Tax? Thanks for your reply. JV

Thank you all for the information. I saw the book by Bob Armstrong in Amazon so I'm going to order it this week. Also found a Kindle edition of Power boat for dummies that I will get as well. OFF DUTY, thank you very much for the information you sent me. NIMBLE1 Thank you very much for you...

Hello. I'm new to this forum. Been looking around for some information on Trawlers and boating in general. I do not own a boat, do not know much about boat, do not know much seamanship. So I've been looking for information in the web and I'm getting good information but I still have a lot of...