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Request for advice.. (boating related)
I find myself the proud new owner of a 1959 Lone Star runabout, complete
with a '59 Mercury Mark 55 motor. Now, I really got the thing for the trailer, because I need a trailer for the new rowboat I am building in the garage, and the whole package came to about half the cost of a new jonboat trailer. It looks like the boat and motor are restorable, from what I could tell under a foot of snow (it'll be a good six weeks before melt-out around here) - the motor needs a new distributor, at least, and the boat wants a fair bit of TLC, but things look sound (i.e. the hull is whole, and the motor isn't seized or anything). Money's a little tight for the time being. I figure I have several options - try to restore it, try to find someone who *really* wants to restore it as a boat/motor unit, try to find some antique outboard fancier who wants the motor and trade the Merc for a newer motor that runs, donate the whole kit and caboodle (sans trailer - that is mine) to some good cause, or use it as a planter. What would you guys do? |
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