Question for that 70s boat?

[LITTLEBISHOP]

Hi, Is that your boat I saw advertised for sale? and if so.. how can you part with such an awesome looking classic! Marc

[Dave Hirshberg]

Don't know if it was the one you're looking at or not. I sold it in November of last year. It was a hard thing to do but I was building my new home and needed the money. I treat my project boats as a sort of savings account. I buy them right, restore them right , use them for a year or two and then sell them for about what I have in them in parts and materials. I never get the labor time back in dollars. But I enjoy the restoration and like the end product. As long as I don't go too far overboard on costs its kinda like a savings account, I can only deposit until I decide to sell. That 23 was the hardest one to let go yet. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

[Dave Hirshberg]

Thats mine.. i removed my foredeck with a skill saw. i cut it just forward of the slope on the deck. I preserved the glass and ground out the bad wood and replaced it. but don't make the same mistake I did. the deck is curved or crowned. I glassed in the new wood and then couldn't get the deck to lay back down into place. i had to take it off and cut lines into the wood to get it to bend enough to screw it back down to the hull. Then glass from inside the cabin to re-seal the wood. Stupid mistake- I should have known better. There are a couple of pics in the album but i lost about 50 pics of that process due to my camera being stolen.http://www.theboatzone.com/gallery/album06