Slo-Mocean
Veteran Member
- Joined
- May 21, 2023
- Messages
- 90
- Vessel Name
- Slo-mOcean
- Vessel Make
- Gh37
to be clear I’m looking for a large-ish trawler (able to be handled alone) or a power cat possibly…. I could see myself spending up to 250k on something I would consider nice, but would waaaay rather keep it 5 figures on a project that I could DIY in an affordable dry dock situation over the next couple of years.
Weebles beat me to it.You should flesh-out the dry-dock thing you're considering. DIY friendly yards have gotten rarer over the years. After reading a few of your posts, my sense is you are at risk of going way over budget. I don't mean to be a wet blanket to your dreams, but there seem to be a lot of dependencies that are not realistic.
That said, dreams are great. They are malleable as new information comes along and are a great starting point. So I'd encourage you - not far off where I started 35 years ago.
Peter
I'm 60 and grew up building high performance power boats from the age of 14 at my brothers company in Michigan as well as cruising the Great Lakes with my parents on our 48 S&S yawl and always helping with the constant maintenance on a brand new freshwater boat .
I built wood \epoxy 65 custom Carolina sportfish boats in the winter in the 90s and have rebuilt sunk boats as well as maintained and owned numerous boats down here in Florida.
I can repair anything short of the Space shuttle , my dad was a tv repairman , he left me a Awesome set of tools.
That being said I have looked at so many boat ads that I have said if they gave me the boat and 30 thousand I wouldn't take it.
Materials and equipment is expensive these days, my best advice is do your homework and find a older clean freshwater Great Lakes boat
I've always been a optimistic person about projects and enjoyed them in the past but there is far too many quality well maintained boats out there for reasonable prices .
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