Ski Nautique 2001 Restomod

MourningWood wrote: Cool project. Are you sure it's an '89?

Haha...We are trying to find the paperwork now! After doing some research, based on the grab handles I now believe it is an 86 or older. Wife's dad just seemed to recall it was an 89. We should know shortly in which I will update this thread!

Cool project.
Are you sure it's an '89?

So my wife's father purchased this '89 Ski Nautique years ago for just $1500 and had plans to restore it. He dug into it and got the motor running nicely and then replaced the old wood stringers with some new fiberglassed stringers. That's about as far as he got before he put it up and never pulled it back out again. About a year ago, we all went in together and got him a 79 Mastercraft Stars and Stripes which was identical to his very first boat that he loved so much but couldn't ever find. The one we found was actually exactly 200#'s off of his original boats Hull ID/VIN! So once he got that boat, this Nautique took an even further back seat! Well he decided that some of the old boats around the farm needed to go and was going to sell this Nautique. I told him I would buy it from him, but he said if we just got it out of his shed, he would give it to us. So that became the birth of my new project! And a long/costly project this will be!! We pulled it out and took the old torn up tarp it was under off. A cat or two went scrambling out and God knows what else may have been living in there. We gave her a full rinse down trying to get all of the cat poop and urine smell out.....the smell however is going to take some more profound soap and scrubbing as well as some good ole sunny days to air out!! I originally planned to just restore this boat to its former glory, but then I remembered seeing the pics of N3's 88 Barefoot Nautique restomod and that quickly became my new obsession. Therefore, my plans now are to fully restore this boat to a NEW glory! We are shooting to make this boat a smaller version of my big G23! An old school look with some new school flare! But here is the beginning as I play to document this long journey!

PS.....if anybody has any good information or links to anything they may think would help me during this journey, please feel free to share!!! I already plan on utilizing ChristinesMarine.com and Nautiqueparts.com as well as the correctcraftfan.com and PlanetNautique.com forums for knowledge and parts!