Junk Under the Bunk: Boat Repairs MacGyver-Style

Nurture Your Inner Pack Rat, Florida Captain Says, 'Use What You Got'

Captain Billy Rawson at the helm of one of his treasure hunting boats.

The author was a career commercial fisherman from the Florida Keys (with everything that implies). As a young man, he managed to evade capture by the 1983 drug-smuggling roundup that resulted in the imprisonment of 80 percent of the male population of Everglades City. Most recently, h…