85 2001 EP PERFORMANCE SKI????

David T,

A buddy of mine at work said he knows you. His name is Jason Brantley. I think he is buddies with your son. Thanks so much for all of your help too.

Jay

Well, this is what I found on the build sheet.

CTC17849C585 Built 3/15/85

19 Ski Nautique 2001
Cream Brown Hull & Deck
Midwatch Blue gel accent
Sand Interior
Navy, Deep Blue, Deep Red
351 C.D. PCM
Deluxe interior package 2001
Dive Plarform


I do remember Mr. Ralph talking about this boat for advertising the skies.

I wanted to talk again about this boat with him, but he is out of town.

I will get back after I speak with him to make sure about this boat.

As you can see the name was sprayed on over the gel. I think they did the job, not the factory, because it would have been on the work order to be done special.

I hope this will help.

just hope that sanding didn't progress to far and they can still make a stencil from it.

85jws wrote: here is the number CTC17849C585

Jay,
I'm sure Keith is working on getting the info from Dave and you (we) will have a answer soon. For future reference, here's Daves number. Direct: 407 956 6422 Email: dhendricks@correctcraft.com

Dave is Correct Crafts "Customer Care Representative"

I have sent you an email

I live down the road from you, in Birmingham, and have some info, for you about your boat. The orginal owner, I am sure was a rep for Correct Craft at the time it was built, he lives in Rainbow City, not far from you. He also was a rep for several water ski companies. He had the boat done like this before it left the Correct Craft factory. Email me and we can discuss this futher, via phone. Dtaylor2954@yahoo.com

We're all thinking the same thing.

-Keith

79 How do I get in touch with Dave?

Jay you realy should pull the HIN off the boat and send it to Dave Hendricks at CC and see what history he can dig up for you before you remove something you might regret later.

Besides the wooden dowel handles that the ends snapped of off on a regular basis, we also had the original foam padded handles where the cheezy soft foam got all tore up the first time you used it. My most vivid recollection tho, was a plastic handle we had that looked something like this:



The front to back length was so long that you could hardly get your hands all the way around it to grip it. It was almost like trying to hold onto a book on just one edge and expecting to get any kind of grip.

I forgot about that one! If the decals were stripped early enough you'd never see any ghost shadows and might look "original".

I'm with Larry on this one. Keep the EP.
Now if anyone finds a Nautique with "Lake Region Skis" on the side, let me know. It will match my other set of trick skis. (the matching Lake Region slalom ski burned in a house fire in '76, which is why I moved up to EP)

Wood, are you interested in selling those?
Steve

There was talk about an "O'brien" model a while back as well. I don't believe any of these boats were factory done.

75 Tique wrote: There's out of touch and then there is really out of touch. If you had asked me, I would have said EP is still out there. Of course, people at LG were laughing at my 25 year old 100 foot kevlar lined barefoot rope.

Larry, At least it wasn't one of the yellow poly lines with a wood handle! That would be going back way "out of touch"!!

jbear wrote: Have a pair of white EP jumpers in the attic...used for jumping and show skiing. Haven't had 'em out of the bag for a few years. EP was solid equipment back in the day. john

EP still rocks. Alan has a nice pair of tricks (ST-360), CQ has just one, and forum member Mike Mikkelsen gave me a slalom with of course the orange vinyl bag.

I have these 67s with some nice new orange bindnigs to put on.