At least a couple hundred times in the last ten years I have found myself on Craigslist or FB Marketplace or eBay Motors, looking at cheap boats and thinking I need to buy one and fix it up so I can go have fun on the lake. Sometimes I convince myself that a weekend, a couple hundred bucks, and some hard work will be all I need to be drinking a beverage on the water and living the big life. But then I remember the horror stories I’ve heard about doing such things. Then I watch a video about some project that snowballs. Then I remember that I’ve never owned a boat, and have only watched my friends with boats, and that almost all of them say to save my money and buy a nicer boat to start with in order to avoid all the big money pitfalls.

Ugh.

And then Junkyard Digs comes along and they start talking about big block powered boats that they paid $500 for and are going to try and make work again. Damn you guys!

Okay, lets see if they can do it and then decide if we’re going after a boat project next year.