World of Boating 9-19-26

Which, by the way, last time we had him on, I know we were talking about the fact that he found the owner of the first boat.

that he owned and sold years ago.

You just reconnected with this boat owner, and the videos are out on his Motor City Boat Works YouTube channel.

By the way, Works spelled W-E-R-K-S, and you can look this up.

But that was just finding that initial boat that you basically cut your teeth on back in the day.

That must have been something,

huh? Yes.

This was my first big boat that I owned and restored.

And I had had two smaller boats prior to this, did some work on them.

But this was the boat that I lived on and I owned it for eight years.

And I shipped it back and forth across country to the Caribbean and back, sailed it in the Caribbean.

And I restored this thing over eight years.

It was my first big boat restoration by an old boat.

It's a Jimmy Buffett-looking sailboat, and I restored this thing, and I wrote a book about it many years ago.

And briefly, it was in print and published, and I had to take it down because of my day job.

And then when I did the YouTube channel, I went ahead and said, this is one of the things I want to get it back in print.

And I got an EPUB version, and I got print copies of it.

And so it's back out there.

It's available to the workers, the people who are on my Patreon.

You get a copy of this thing.

And, uh, uh, and this is like, you know, how do you restore a classic sailboat? What does it take? What's it like? And, uh, you know, that's what the book covered.

And I kept track of all, just like I do now, I kept track of the cost of everything and how many hours and all the projects it's part technical, uh, how-to and part memoir, and there's some really funny stories in there about how I bought the boat and things that happened to me while I was restoring it.

It sunk twice on land, and it ran aground on the beach in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, during a tropical storm.

I

almost chopped off my thumb.