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• A quick survey - How much maintainence/repair work on your boat should you be able to do yourself?
  • If by ''component" you mean....
    • I draw the line on engine work at the
    • I did mean "box"...
    • A cruising friend did almost nothing himself
      • It's mostly
  • Ideally I agree with you
    • lol- having JUST done a bottom job, including all the sanding, at my age NEXT time
      • Exactly. The things I no longer want to do!
        • ROFL- Braden- I'll be 73 next month. Keep on keeping on-grin
          • You give me hope.
  • everything but electronics and sail making
  • DYI
    • #4, great point.
  • Why should anyone have to be able to do 100% of their own boat maintenance, if they can't or don't want to?
    • I'm with Tom …
      • Being able to vice making a choice not to are two different things.
      • People may laugh, but 'hring it out' well, is a learned skill too.
  • Everything but electronic repair, crane work, and machining.
    • Where the job sits on the skill/labor spectrum counts
  • Work aboard and age....
  • almost everything
  • More than half the reason I have boats is that I enjoy working on them..
    • Todd do you have a yard or barn that allows you to work on your boat?
      • I have plenty of space to work on my boats...
    • Then I agree, if you enjoy working on them more than using them, you should do 100% of the work.
  • maintenace/repairs
  • Almost everything
  • Well, did it all 'back in the day'. Not now.
    • Yeah, yeah. I'm waiting, bring Jaunty on- we'll go catch a Spec or three
      • This is the winter for it.
  • The mechniacal and electrical things you "should" be alble to do only depends on your sailing area.
    • LOL! I see have have few sympatico's
      • I was thinking 'changing the fuse' was overkill.
        • I do have some Kryptonian tools that Jon said i must have.
  • IT DEPENDS
    • Agree. And then there is the age old paradox..when you have time, you often do not have money, and vice versa.
    • Absolutely it depends...
  • Have done everything except fixing electronics, but
  • I do nearly everything myself - not because I want to....
  • When you are itinerant like us, there is
    • Sounds familiar
  • I think you shoud be able to do what will get you homel
  • I do most things....