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Originally Posted by tager
It will take a lot of work to make it perfect, but it won't take a lot of work to make it sail! It won't even be all that expensive.
Here's one more reason to raise the boat from the dead. It is the respectful thing to do to nature. It would be awful to the earth though. I think buying new boats is unconscionable when there are boats lke this that need to be revived. Bugger all the voodoo economics lectures.
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Sorry, but it will take much more than a little work to make that stinking hulk that's full of mud float; let alone sail.
I hate to tell you this but all things have a lifespan whether it is a person or a car or a boat. You can keep throwing money at an old car until you are spending more than a monthly payment on a new one (and you can't find parts anymore); or you can send it to the scrap yard and get a new one. It makes little difference to "nature" what you do; because the earth is the mother of all recycling machines. I'm much more concerned about the CO2 levels (fossil fuels) and the long term effects than I am about old sunken boats that -could- be restored.
If it were not for all of the new boats that were made; we who own used boats would not be able to afford them. Somebody had to have bought it new; so it makes little difference if you were the first time buyer or the 10'th owner (aside from the amount you paid and the amount of maintenance you will pay).
Marinas in my area send several boats a month (each) to the wrecking yard; and these boats are floating, not sunken mud filled wrecks. Why are they doing this? Because there is little interest in restoring old boats that need more work and money than they are valued at so they can't even give them away.
I hope DBW gets it hauled out or at least the mast removed before someone else hits it and gets injured. I could care less what happens to the hull if it is not blocking the waterway.