Would you buy this boat?

I'll leave answering this question to Jeff Foxworthy and the bunch! It should be renamed the "Orange Ruffy".

Obviously a home built excuse of a boat, but you gotta give'em credit for them "retractable" consoles with a semi-hand finished finish or something.

Good find.

Cheers.

Where is the link?

Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/l45vcuf

I guess the OP didn't wanna link to YW.

Thanks Alfred.
Understand the various comments now. Seems a lot of money for a basic fishing machine. As good as the hull might be, that is all this boat is and all it was meant to be, a few seasons of hard work. Obvious when you see that they used rebuilt DD's for the power plants.

Barely basic, I guess confused the two terms "market value" and "sentimental value"! I feel they reached a point and said lets just get over with this, its taking too much time and money, you see how they copied some good stuff from other boats, but its put together with something that is not even stitch and glue.

This boat raises a lot of questions from the 7,600 hours on the motors to the weight listed as "Approximately" 45,000#. Then there's the (what looks like) a 2x8 support beam for the salon floor cut down to about 2x4 above the air sep, the wiring, ..................
P.S. is anybody really building epoxy of wood plank new?

that seems like an awfully light boat for a 63 ft SF. (45,000 lbs)

An answer to the OP question, Would you buy this boat? answer: "No"

However, I am not a professional charter Captain and owner/operator of a charter business in the outer banks.

I have been on some of these north Carolina cold molded and plank on frame SFs as a charter customer in nasty conditions. (We were chasing winter Bluefin before it got popular) Generally, they are very capable and reliable even in severe conditions.
It does seem a bit odd to have a plank on frame new construction. It must cost close, if not more than a cold molded or FRP molded hull.

The boat is not a yacht or a traditional sportfish that is a hybrid luxury condo capable of doubling as a offshore war wagon.

This boat is a work boat meant to take paying customers to the grounds and back.
I do agree that several things in the photos need to be addressed.

It is not common to use planks because finding clean air dried wood to harvest good planks from is so hard and costly, there are very few mills that specialize in such woods specially for boat building, and it is expensive, commonly referred to as "boat lumber".

I feel they started well with the frames and carvel planking but then didn't care for details as small as making clean filets between joints in some places and the angle of the bridge ladder and how it sits, maybe like RER is saying, it is somewhat a common practice for boats meant as work boats rather than pleasure boats. Also, being a licensed fishing charters boat, it means it passed inspection, which is a plus for what we otherwise, (Me personally), think of as a sub-par build. I say so because I have seen many homebuilt wooden boats even in clinker planking that are far and far better than this. Who knows what the reality behind the build is.

Cheers.

Yet another proof to the theory that what we don't like is probably meant to be like that.

Now would it sell? The next owner would be interested in the chartering business or personal use? In other words, how is the market doing nowadays?

Considering how much it would cost me as an owner and operator of a private boat for a half day of off shore fishing; $1500 does not leave a lot of profit for a charter boat.