T&T: 1987 Peterborough power cruiser dilemma

[Joyce Colwell]

I'm sorry.  Didn't read the entire email from Mervyn.  If you get into doing 
the work yourself, you may well wish you hadn't if the damage proves to be 
more extensive and having someone else do it will certainly prove more 
expensive, probably.



> Hi Mervyn
>
> Ah, the rot's much more extensive than just in the stringers. The problem 
> is
> that once you start to take things apart, you're almost certainly going to
> find other issues, so where do you stop?
>
> Now you're down to determining if the boat's worth repairing. From your
> first posting, unless you want to do the work yourself - and it's a big,
> ugly job - the answer appears to be negative.
>
> Cheers, Garrett
>
> I agree with Garrett.  We had a moisture problem in our aft cabin and 
> head.
> We are already up to $50,000 and over 10 months with more time and money 
> to
> be spent.  The original estimate was far lower but once the yard really 
> got
> into it, the damage was much more extensive than originally thought.  If 
> you
> don't own the boat yet, my advice would be to keep looking.
>
> Joyce Colwell
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