Thanks Don, that was excellent! good thoughts to remember. I can tell
just from your writing that you have experience and have at one time or
another graduated from the "school of hard knocks"


Jerry isn't looking to do work for customers, however. He's wanting to
buy good hull boats re-working and re-selling. So he can avoid a lot
of "customer problems" that you have mentioned. I know what it's like
in the auto-electric business to give somebody a quote...sink a lot of
money in parts& labor, just to hae them abandon it and leave it for me
to take up shelf space, THEN come back a year later wanting me hand it
over etc.

"OR" wanting me to "fix it as cheap as possible" then come back a few
months later complaining that it didn't work anymore , and hearing "you
just REBUILT that a a few months ago!"

Never again!

It didn't take long to