85 2001 EP PERFORMANCE SKI????

Take a picture of it and post it.

HMMMM!! Sounds like your boat was a promo boat for EP ski products. I google it and I found that they used to be a brand of ski before being bought and dropped. Is definetly not a CC model. Either they paint them or special order it like that from CC. If is painted then I don't think the CC factory did that because usually they use vinyl stikers instead of paint but I am not sure. If is painted you can sand them off and put the original one. Acutally, their is a PDF file under the reference section with all decals for this CC model. You can measure that the size is correct and take it to a graphic shop and have them done. Another option other people have done is create stensils and paint them. The gel coat is thick so I am sure you can sand them and restore the paint.

I am restoring a 2001. Mine is an 87. This how the graphics should look like.

Thanks for the input. It is in the process right now of getting sanded and buffed and new decals put on.

The EP is painted on there. It just blew me away when I was peeling off the old stickers and found this under there. This is what it looked like before I peeled the stickers off.

I've got an EP Comp X-2 and a sweet pair of EP tricks that would go really nice with that boat. I was a huge EP junkie back around the late 70's.
Steve

Steve,
I think I'll hold off on the Ep ski's, but i do appreciate the offer.

Anthony,
I was freakin out when I started to peel it off and saw that the last letter was a 'S'. I was like what the hell does this say on here. I couldn't get that sticker off fast enough. I had to go get my wife's hairdryer to try to get it off easier. She came out and was freakin out too. She loves the boat almost as much as I do. Luckily I was just peelin it off to take it to buddy of mine to get it redone and was curious what it looked like underneath there.

I can't wait to get it back like it was intended to be. Should have it back in a couple weeks but no hurry now. It will just sit for the winter.

8122pbrainard wrote: No need to check out the profile for ages when someone hasn't heard of EP!!

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. Fortunately, I dont think any of them saw my ski.

Given my propensity for nostolgia, I think I might be tempted to keep the EP logo on the boat, too.

I have a 91 EP stilletto which I would still be skiing on if I was still 147lbs, and our "newest" combo pair is an EP set from the mid 80's. I would also probably touch up and keep the graphics.

8122pbrainard wrote: 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"!!

I snapped the ends off a few of those. Now if you really want to talk classic, how about that rope you just described but with the two handles, the supposed "slalom rope" of the day. Instead of pulling the rope into your hip to pull out the slack, you were supposed to spread your arms out about 8 feet. I gotta admit, I never liked or owned one of those. Or with the single handle, remember the skiers that pulled the handle way up over their heads. Cripe, I feel like I just took a trip in Mr. Peabody's way-back machine thinking back about that stuff.

Well where's Dave when you need him. wondering if the HIN would shead any light on whether it was a promo or one off for EP?

Is this another one of the same kind of thing?
(from a thread over on the2001)

Sure would try and get some history on that boat before I started removing it, who knows what the history may be.

Is that a stock pylon, looks pretty tall.

Larry, as a kid my dad kept a stockpile of dowels for replacement handles, we used to snap one a week. The boat house on Candlewood still has a couple very old double handle lines and a few old ropes with the plastic floats on the ends, not sure if any of the old ski-belts are still around.

No it is not the stock one. It has been an upgrade at some point. The previous owner did not know much info on the boat and if anything had been changed from the original. He always had a extended pylon over it to pull his son wakeboarding.

I do know from old receipts that the interior was redone in 98 as well as the engine rebuilt. I think that someone had let it go pretty bad. It may have been installed then.

It is surely not the prettiest boat out there, but its mine. Finally, happy to be a CC owner.

Jay

It looks like a new CC pylon, and probably is just sitting on top of the original pin glassed into the hull. Make sure the cradle bracket stays tight or it'll come up and out!

85jws,
What's the hull number on that boat? Let's see if Dave Hendricks can find out any info on it.

-Keith

This thread is getting very interesting.

I wish my boat was special.