Strangers Help 86-Year-Old Finish 62-Foot Backyard Boat

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAn eighty-six-year-old man in Mineral Wells, Texas, has been welding a sixty-two-foot steel boat in his front yard since nineteen eighty-seven, the Good News Network reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSince nineteen eighty-seven. The boat is older than most of the people who'll be asked to push it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe wanted to finish it and sail to Alaska. It's roughly seventy-five percent done and has four staterooms.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFour staterooms. In Texas. Who's the cruise for?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThree English visitors turned up unannounced.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOne of them, Laurence Benson, started a GoFundMe that has raised more than forty-one thousand dollars from over fifteen hundred donors.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLovely. And then they discover a steep hill stands between the boat and the road.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHeavy machinery will be needed. Benson says about fifty thousand dollars gets it moved and on the water.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMy theory is the hill was there first and has simply outwaited him. Forty years of patience, that is.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMine is that nobody sails to Alaska from Mineral Wells. Four staterooms, and the first passenger is a crane.