87 Barefoot Nauti

For all you Big-Block junkies.
Ran into an old friend who's selling this baby:
Nice 87 BF

Hollywood wrote: Damn, well now that the cat is out of the bag that is the boat Johnny is looking at.

Well, maybe that will light a fire for JJ to get moving on the boat rather than throwing out excuses. I didn't have any money when I got my first boat, and, last time I checked I still don't have any

That looks interesting...

Hollywood, is that really the one johnny is looking at. has anyone seen the boat inperson and looked it over. If it's as nice as they say it tells johnny to go pick it up and I trade him mine and some money. Minus the hi-teks of course.

My wife has been asking me what I want for Christmas.

Steve

87BFN owner wrote: Hollywood, is that really the one johnny is looking at.

Yes. I was going to look at it for him, but the guy wouldnt unwinterize. Can't do much til spring without a test drive.

NAUTI84 wrote: TRBenj wrote: Yes. I was going to look at it for him, but the guy wouldnt unwinterize. Can't do much til spring without a test drive. Yep, winterized & no water in his pond. Not many test-drives going on in N.E. this time of year. Although I bought my 84 - Feburary in Ohio. Drove out, looked it over, pulled it home. A week later it had a foot of snow on it. I mustuv been young & crazy ! (But I just did the same with a Motorhome - Flew out to Tenn., bought it and drove it home.)

I drove our 00 home on 2/4/06 in a snowstorm, 220 miles. The entire time I was envisioning what seemed like an inevitable horrific accident with the boat and trailer, but it never happened. At the end of the ride the guide poles on the trailer had a wedge of ice on them facing forward- aerodynamic!

TRBenj wrote: I test drove my '90 with Joel in Nov '05. You test drove your '00 when you bought in Feb, right Joel? Unless a boat is severely underpriced and is worth taking a chance on, I cant imagine buying a boat without driving it first.

Yep, test drove a 95 siggie in October of 05,98 in November 05, and then the 00 in late January of 06 in Indy. The 00 dealer didn't hesitate to dewinterize it for one second, one of the several reasons they got my business.

Maybe the buyer should pay for the re winterizing if he doesn't buy the boat. That would eliminate the tire kickers.

Bought my 85BFN the first Saturday in December 06. I had footed behind it one time the previous September. It was a gamble that nothing had changed, but the price was nice. The photo in my link below is from the day I bought it, notice the snow?
Steve

Is the 502ci motor a marine only and who built it? Im also surprised its fuel injected what year did PCM start using FI on there motors ? Thanks

Fellas,

I believe it is a *gasp* Merc engine.

the internals i imagine are the same, the stuff hanging on them may be from different companies, i know merc has a no pump no crank carb out on the carb models

OK GUYS WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT THAT 87 BFN WITH THAT 502 IT IS FAST . THERE WAS NO WATER IN THE POND TO TEST DRIVE IT.

I guess we better take it to a pond with water, mine will work.

NAUTI84 wrote: For all you Big-Block junkies. Ran into an old friend who's selling this baby: Nice 87 BF

Holy Sh*t!
I thought my computer jumped over to Planetnautique after checking back in on this thread!
I posted the link because I thought some of you motor-heads on here would drool over this boat.
But, it's turned into a bullsh*t thread over winterizing???
If your interested, make a call. I'm sure you'll be able to find out anything you want to know about the boat.
This guy knows ski boats up/down/inside-out! His family has had ski boats since they started to walk.
(4) brothers (all excellent barefooters/skiers) w/ (4) ski boats.
(Seeing their boats over the years is how I caught the Ski-boat fever.)
If ya want to be clowns head over to the Planet. If you want straight Nautique talk stick around here.
As I said before- My understanding is that it was already winterized & No water in the pond!
Enough bull-sh*t!