Hi All,
I'm new to the forums, I found them after much googling about boat's and this looked like a good place to come to. My partner has been given a boat from her ex-husband as he was unable to sell it. As you can see from the picture's it's in very bad shape.
It's been stored outside for 2 years in Northland, New Zealand but when it was last in the water it ran fine according to my so, We know NO details about it, Dont know what make/model the boat is and haven't been able to move the outboard enough to even be able to identify it. We figured we'd get it to our place and strip the hull back to wood, I'm told it's a plywood hull which seems to fit with what I can see at the moment.
Our master plan so far it to strip the boat back to the hull + cabin so remove all the fittings, the fence post wood used for decking (wtf?) the basic helm it's running and check it over for rot, We're expecting that the transom will have to be replaced as it looks like it's got rot but the hull seems sound with no soft spots. If it checks out we'll repaint the hull and mount the outboard, If the engines still ok we'll then do the interior over using the current basic structure but with less stupid things like proper decking rather than fence post wood being used.
So thought I would chuck this project up in it's own little thread and see what others think, Are we wasting our time trying to restore it?
I'm new to the forums, I found them after much googling about boat's and this looked like a good place to come to. My partner has been given a boat from her ex-husband as he was unable to sell it. As you can see from the picture's it's in very bad shape.
It's been stored outside for 2 years in Northland, New Zealand but when it was last in the water it ran fine according to my so, We know NO details about it, Dont know what make/model the boat is and haven't been able to move the outboard enough to even be able to identify it. We figured we'd get it to our place and strip the hull back to wood, I'm told it's a plywood hull which seems to fit with what I can see at the moment.
Our master plan so far it to strip the boat back to the hull + cabin so remove all the fittings, the fence post wood used for decking (wtf?) the basic helm it's running and check it over for rot, We're expecting that the transom will have to be replaced as it looks like it's got rot but the hull seems sound with no soft spots. If it checks out we'll repaint the hull and mount the outboard, If the engines still ok we'll then do the interior over using the current basic structure but with less stupid things like proper decking rather than fence post wood being used.
So thought I would chuck this project up in it's own little thread and see what others think, Are we wasting our time trying to restore it?