Ended up with dry rot. Guy wouldn't sell, I tried. When he died, his wife sold the boat for a grand to an older man and his daughter, nearly my age.

At 85 he started the rebuild, called me often for consultations on what I'd done here or there. Removed all of the deck but the ends of the boat, removed the cabin sides but front and back were ok. He got most of it back together but was in his 90's by then and no longer called. I think he was nearly done but don't know now. Shame, it was a great sailing boat and I spent many a day on the ins and outs of the river when I was a fireman down on near the coast. I lived on that boat over three years, learned a great deal on many fronts from the build, a rework to remove the silly vee berth after three years, altered the sail design to lessen weather helm, added the bowsprit and double anchor roller and did the whole rework in my 10X10 storage unit shop. I loved working with bronze sheet, extrusions, bending the bronze water pipe for the pulpit, the whole thing. It was a grand experiment, every bit of it.

Kind of my piece de resistance of my boat building hobby. Lotsa fun.