The first second-hand sailboat my husband and I considered as a potential “project boat” was listed for sale on an online classified website in France for a few thousand euros. With just a handful of sailing lessons under our belts, we were naïve, ambitious and inspired by countless hours of boat refit videos we had binged during the pandemic lockdowns on YouTube. We were captivated by young couples who had picked up someone else’s old fiberglass boat trash for as little as a dollar and transformed it into something beautiful. Or, so we thought.
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