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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airshot" data-source="post: 493368" data-attributes="member: 1183"><p>Never consider a boat as an investment, probably worse than a xar when it comes to lost value !!!  Look at it strickly as personal entertainment...  Have owned boats since I was 12 years old, now 72, never made a nickle selling a boat as far as profit goes, but I can say I have enjoyed each one immensely for the time I owned it !!!  When rebuilding a tinney....are you getting close to replacement cost??  If not then what they hey, do whatever you want if you can afford it.  Things change as time goes on, when my kids were small we had a family boat for fun activities like tubing and just joy riding, fishing was secondary.  Then the kids grew up and wecwent to a small cuddy for more fishing time on big water, recession hit us hard, so downsized to small skiff just for fishing, very cheap to operate and kept food on the table.  Things got better then moved back into a bigger boat for longer excursions.  Retired and mostly go alone now so downsized to a 16' tin SC which I can handle by myself.  So...bottom line is...do what you want and need to be happy now as we never know what tomorrow will bring or what changes will take place !!  A boat is a hobby not an investment !!</p></blockquote><p></p>