Here's some  pics and thoughts on my recent job re-animating an older Don Hill "16' standard" dory.  It was an interesting project.

 It was a bit hard to resist re-doing simply everything, to resist spending double the agreed-upon fee ( using my own time and money) making every improvement and upgrade that occured to me as I went through this boat, but I think I managed, probably well enough to make about 1/2 minimum wage on this project. 

 The end result is a boat that is put back together in the same 'fashion' as Don Hill originally sent it out the door. ..that is without being all 'tarted-up'.  It was hard to resist getting fancy, but in the end, just replacing rusty fasteners, re-bedding the ones I took out, sanding sanding sanding, etc...That will give the owner more than his money's worth.

  I have a real appreciation for this design now.  I'll be doing some similar from scratch, using roughly similar dimensions.  This older boat has really nice lines.