Many, many thanks to Bob Cousins and family for providing me with this great learning project, called a boat.

In the Fall of 1998 Bob Cousins offered me his old boat since he had just purchased a new bass boat as I guess he just never had the time to put into restoring this old beauty(well it used to be). He basically begged me to take it from him as I guess it was taking up a little to much of his yard and was a bit of an eye-sore, so me not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, I took him up on his offer and gladly received his boat, motor and trailer for FREE, (what a deal..) yeah what a deal it was... I was in heaven, he even let me use his hitch from his new truck(just like mine) and his plate from his new boat & trailer.. just to get me home, about 20-30 miles from Bedford, NH to Pelham, NH to a friends house were it would stay for about 9 months.. until I finally brought it to.. my parents house in Lowell, MA about 15-20mins south of Pelham. Where I am currently working on it...