My crew in front of my 'old' boat ... refurbished from an otherwise
empty hull ... but I only have the 2 tins and 2 kayaks now.
She was a 1992 Parker 25' Sport Cabin that I bought from Harvard University of all places. It used to cruise Boston Haba [that’s “Harbor” ... for you southerners
] with just a 150hp OB on the stern, taking water and sediment samples for the Harvard environmental program during the Federally-mandated cleanup of Boston Harbor. The PhD who led that program left once the harbor was clean ... and the boat was simply left abandoned in a boatyard.
I had to totally refurbish it, as it was literally an "empty shell". All systems like wiring, gauges, electronics, lights, pumps, OB, controls, etc., were dead from neglect, non-care, or vandalism; as kids smashed everything but the glass windows and frp hull! I bought just the bare hull with windows (unbroken ... thankfully) for $9K and redid everything. I added the wood pulpit, new bowrail, and a custom galley in to the port-side helm cabin with 2-burner propane stove, storage drawers, and sink with water supply.
I modeled it in the traditional “downeast” fashion with tuscan tan paint and teak trim. I did all the work myself. You can also see a lot of other DIY'r hardware on her that I made up, including the radar mast, pulpit, and rocket launchers. And the tower was added a few years later ... then a Suzi DF250 ... and the list goes on and on ...