Hi everyone, I'm Charles from Washington NC. I'm finally about to actually live out the dream I've been working toward for the last 4 or 5 years. I bought an old cheap 50 year old sailboat to live on, had an amazing adventure fixing her up, running her 250 miles home down the ICW basically like Apollo 13, bare bones as possible, lots of rigging and straight wired stuff to run the engine and charge my phone that had the navigation app on it. , Everything else was independent battery powered. That's a long story for another time. Right now I've sold my house, about to buy a trawler to live on and take offshore a few times each summer for diving and fishing. Rest of the year will be river travel and fishing in the Pamlico sound, etc.. I'm looking at a possible island Gypsy 40 foot sedan with twin Caterpillar motors. I've seen the online review of IGs though talking about metal throughhulls bedded in fiberglass, lead solder in the water tank, etc.. so I'm looking for opinions on a 1987 IG 40 foot sedan. I don't want to buy another boat that ends up with so much project creep I can't ever live on it. Thanks in advance for any advice. Types of boats to buy as suggestions are welcome as well.