Ron Clayton
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- Feb 14, 2021
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New to this forum and new to boating. I'm a fixed income 72-year old who underwent back surgery last year and needed a project that would get me doing something physical. I've watched maybe 100 hours of YouTube videos. I bought this project boat last month from an estate sale for $400. The deck and likely the stringers and transom will need replacing. The engine is reported to run and the trailer held together as I pulled it 130 miles from St. Petersburg to Fort Myers.. Thanks to google maps for finding me a route that avoided highways. This project is intended as a form of physical therapy with a secondary benefit of having a saltwater fishing boat in the end. Where do I start? I'm thinking of doing (removing oxidation and polishing) the outside first as that might be less physically taxing than jumping right into the deck work which I hope to be able to do as my strength returns.
