Thanks Bruce, Gordon for taking the time to answer, I appreciate
asking for a "back of a fag packet" guestimate on pieces of work are
hard to get figures to so maybe I should be more specific and I really
am looking for estimates, prices will fluctutate depending on each
circumstance but guestimates must be possible?

Let me example a 35 foot carvel built boat from the 1920's, 30's,
40's, Mahogany on Oak with Teak decking, wooden mast etc. I'm not
looking at lapstrake or ply construction currently unless someone
believes that would massivley ease repairs, which I doubt.
A secondary assumption is made a respected surveyor could be sourced
and passed an initial bill of health, outcome OK with minor repairs.

I'm looking for people experiences so to highlight a subset of the
original questions:

o Can anyone provide a real life example of guestimate of man hours &
expense involved in totally stripping exterior paint, recaulking and
painting again. Of course I'm assuming no rot in this statement.

o Can anyone provide a real life example or guestimate of costs
involved in replacing a 20hp engine in such a case?

o Can anyone state roughly the expected costs of replacing rigging
were the cables to be considered suspect, 35 foot, assume a cutter,
sloop or gaff combinations.

o Anyone recently purchased a set of sails for a 35 foot sloop, cutter
or gaff rig? (let be clear here, I'm not heading to a luxury sail
maker here, this is a cruising boat, I;m not looking to win races)


The reason for writing the worst case scenario questions is incase the
surveyor gets it totally wrong and serious rot or damage is discovered
once the paint is off. Gypsy Moth and so forth may not be valid
examples as I am not looking to perform concours level restores for
showing off to the world on a prestigous vessel.

I've seen mention of alternate places to have restorative work carried
out as well, there is a yard in Romania which performs this work, I'm
sure Poland has some good shipwrights if some investigation was
carried out and unfortunately for their economy the UK pound buys a
lot of manhours in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia etc. These
coastal northern countries must have decent yards as well.

As above, all and any comment welcome.