I was doing the same thing a few years ago. I spent the winter getting my boat ready for a rebuild in the spring. I gutted the whole boat down to the bare hull. Stringers and all were ripped out. I bought all the fiberglass and resin for the rebuild. I was going to make the boat a center console it was a duel console. After a weekend of grinding ( about 20hrs) I was starting to get the stringers set up and started looking around on ebay. Well I found a nice hull which needed a drive and engine. Well I had those from my current project. Long story short I ended up buying the hull from ebay (very very cheap) I will not tell the price
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as some guys still have hard feelings over the price I paid
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. Ended up aborting the project and replacing the engine and drive in 2 weeks and still use it to this day. I fired it up yesterday for this season. I would like to have finished my project but in the end I found it better to just get a new hull and save a whole lot of $ and time with the family. They love the bigger boat and we have a lot of fun on it. I still wish I had went through with the project it is a lot of work but I enjoyed doing it. The thing I didnt enjoy was the time away from the family working on it. The first picture is of the aborted project turned into a dumpster the second is of the boat I ended up buying. Lets just put it this way I spent more in fiberglass and resin then I did on the new boat
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