Add a battery charger, Shop-Vac and hand tools and you are off to a good start. Buy any specialty tools as you need them and add the cost to the project’s total expenses.

A recirculating pump for a 32 horsepower Universal 5432 engine lists for $406 from Universal. It’s based on a 1501 Kubota tractor engine and a tractor parts website will sell them for $106 all day long. Another example of industry theft is the Westerbeke W30 water pump which Westerbeke lists for over $700. This engine is based on the British

If a buyer is getting financing they will want a survey. This happens less than half the time, so play along. Part of the boating public still thinks highly of these frauds and some prospective buyers believe they can gain leverage from any defects found to lower the price. Remember that they are paying for this, so when they ask if you have a copy

You won’t need as much equipment as you are led to believe. A grinder, sander, skill-saw, jigsaw and drill will be your power tools,

Now take a piece of easily formed aluminum from Home Depot and attach it to the hull over the outside damaged area using self-tapping screws. I’ve used cardboard. Conform this to the hull shape the best you can, be artistic. Leave it and move to the inside where you have also cleaned the damaged area with your grinder and sterilized the wound with

On any body of water you absolutely must render assistance. It’s the Way.

A Westerbeke W30 diesel is based on a British Leyland 1500D and the recirculating pump is the same as for an MGB automobile for $29.95

I contracted to scrap some junked and abandoned sailboats for the lead in the keels while we were there, sawed one up and sold the lead keel and netted $750 for ourselves the first day.

The sailing world loves a sunset. It’s part of the mystique. We always include one in the ads to evoke the romance and beauty the buyer will soon have.