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Your personal page says you answered an ad for a salvage Whaler.
Who scuttles a boat and then advertised it? If you cut it up, wouldn't you just dump it?
I am confused, but that doesn't really matter. Good luck with your project - hope you are in it for love and not money, as you have plenty to do and will be way upside down on it financially if/when you finish.
For LABCAB- The Coast Guard "presense" does not just mean the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean. Any lake that borders 2 states (Greenwood in NY/NJ or Lake Tahoe (CA/NV) is federal waters. The Mississippi and other inland rivers are federal as well. I was stationed in Baton Rouge LA. on the Miss river, way inland. There is USCG in Iowa, Tenn, etc.
Go to www.uscg.mil and see where we all are.
I know the Coast Guard is in the Great Lakes. I just wasn't thinking of the Great Lakes Region as the Mid-west. I guess it's mid latitude but it's far north longitude. When someone posts they live in the midwest I tend to think they are boating in lakes and rivers. I never knew about lakes bordering two states and have never been on such lakes to notice C.G. there. I learn something new every day on this site.
This Whaler served in Alaska.
Your next question: How did it get to the midwest? Answer: By truck.
I dug out the foam on the port half of the stern section tonight. I learned a couple things:
The foam is only saturated right along the keel. Plywood is wet, but not rotted (treated). I was always told there was no wood in a Whaler. That's incorrect. There is some wood, but not much. Interesting that during construction, the center tube was tied in place with clothes line stapled to the floor on the underside. This held the tube from shifting sideways during the foam pour. The tube sits upon little 4" x 4" foam blocks held in place with one course of mat. Minimalism is genius.
I've been in awe of these boats since I was a kid, I never understood how they did it. Now that I understand, I'm still in awe. It's absolutely genius. Now consider they were doing this in 1958!
