T&T: Building new vs re-building (was aluminum vs steel)

[Bill Allen]

To me certainnly given enough time it's the way to go. I don't think anyone 
should see this kind of project as anything than a labor of love, cause it 
sure must be a hard way to go. I think just looking at my wanta list is way 
big enough for me. Given enough time custom is the best. I suppose the 
really issue is do you want to cruise or do you enjoy building a boat. For 
me the answer is I want to cruise. It takes a very dedicated, driven person 
to take on a project of this size. Most never finish or start to cut so many 
corners it becomes a nightmare. A boat that will be sold at a horrible 
unfinished discount. My hat is certainnly off to someone who does this and 
eventually  finishs it. For me I always thought I would love to do something 
like this, but at this point in my life i'm more than staisfied with just 
"fooling around with it" and of course travelling whenever I can. Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob england" <bob_england@hotmail.com>
To: <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:55 PM
Subject: T&T: Building new vs re-building (was aluminum vs steel)


> At one time, not to long ago, I thought that buying a good hull and
> completely rebuilding the boat inside of it was the way to go. I have had 
> a