Thread subject: Whaler Central - Boston Whaler Boat Information and Photos :: 1960 13' restoration project (looking for opinion)

Posted by blacklab on 02/24/17 - 10:48 AM
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If you are not sentimentally attached and are just a bit handy, most of this is easy to do yourself. Do you really need all of items on the list? Bilge pump and Navigation lights? I suppose it really depends on what you need the boat for, and where you are boating.

As a suggestion... make it a tiller model:

You could purchase the interior wood and other chrome/brass/stainless parts, install it over a weekend and hang an outboard on the back and go boating. The other parts are easy to find and at significantly better prices.

If the bottom and topsides are already done, you've got the hard part completed already.