Thanks Faster!
Hey, I'll be down your way in a month or so... taking my second course with Marco of Lands End Sailing School over at Bowen Island. Love BC!
Yes, either you look at a project boat as inspiring...or like me, who bought the boat with optimism and lack of knowlege....without a real good survey...discover issues and just deal with them as they come along. I really can't sell a boat with such structural issues anyway, so I'm stuck with repairing it and learning. As long as there's a bit of foresight and direction...I'll really learn a lot about sailboats as the payoff....I'm really trying not to think of the price for this operation and right before sailing season! Oh well.
Thanks for the support and info. My brother-in-law can weld aluminum...he's a commercial fisherman and pretty handy. I can do the demo and take the cabinets out....put back in the bulkheads and beam and get the standing
rigging up and running and worry about the interior once the fall hits and sailing slows down.