Life-support of an old American wooden boat

Follow me through the process of getting my 1946 16-ft Chris-Craft Special Runabout back to her original splendour.
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Chris-Craft Antique Boat Club
Danenberg Boatworks
The Mariners Museum
The Trading Dock
Träbåtsakuten (Swedish)
Woody Boater Blog
Motor Yacht Society (Swedish)

The baptism

In the end of the summer my boat sunk. The reason is still unclear, but it probably has something to do with the heavy amount of rain during that period in combination with a bilge pump that didn’t work because of a depleted battery. Maybe that’s what caused it. Nothing really serious happened, the worst is some original gauges that were beyond rescue and needs to be replaced. Other than that the oil has been changed a couple of times and some of the deck planks has to be replaced. But since that was one of this winter’s projects anyway I don’t take it to hard.

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