The decks leak on this old leaky-teaky. Living on a boat with leaking decks is like living in a house with a leaky roof to me. Looking at the boat carefully, I think the prudent thing to do is to open the decks up and replace the rotten core, which will be most of the foreward deck and at least half of the side decks. Then glass over them and paint them. The aft deck is OK.

This boat also has two refrigerators and no stove. One refrigerator is an apartment sized one and is old, and I don't think it works anyway. The other is a boat-style ice box type. I'm going to remove both and install an apartment sized SS refer and gas stove.

After that, it's seeing what works and what doesn't and deciding what's important to replace and what can just be heaved. Then it's paint and varnish.

The boat is 30 years old, but it's been on the hard for the last 19 years. It hasn't been used much and the engines have less than 3000 hours on them. I'm hopeful the mechanicals are all OK, but getting the boat running is actually way down on my list of things to do. As I posted earlier, I have a fleet of sailboats to play with, so this boat is more of a floating apartment than anything.

One idea I'm kicking around is doing "the great loop", a circumnavigation of the eastern half of the US using canal, rivers, and the ICW. That would be about five or six years away, when I retire. From my experiences traveling on the Hudson River and the NYS Canal System, I've really grown fond of traveling on them. With 500 gallons of water and 800 gallons of diesel, I'd only have to stop a couple of times.