Bert Robbins wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
How much work is involved in maintaining a wooden GB 42?

This boat was gorgeous - I mean drop dead gorgeous.

I'm not a surveyor by any stretch, but I couldn't find anything wrong
on viewing the boat. Bilges were exceptionally clean, the engine room
sparkled, the boat itself being wood - well, even up close the paint
was flawless. The teak was bright and looked oiled rather than
varnished. All the window frames were intact and showed no signs of
leaking, I didn't find any dead spots on the deck or bridge -
anywhere. Apparently the current owner is into wood working too as
there were several personal touches that were just incredible.

I am in love with this boat. The only problem is I'm not at all sure
I can maintain it at this level.

What to do - what to do.

Do you want to go boating or do you want to go maintaining?

I have stayed away from this discussion because that is my opinion and I
didn't want to burst Tom's bubble, but it looks like everyone else has
already done that.

There was an old 42' woodie on my dock, it was called Panache. It was
perfect, absolutely beautiful. I would have loved to own that boat. I
also saw it in dry dock for about 6 weeks every spring with 3 - 4 pros
doing touch up work, replacing boards, etc. The guy paid someone to do
all the work, so all he had to do was write the checks.