68 Ski Nautique

I spent my Saturday working on the Ponyboat, and spent all day today retrieving this boat from central MN. Someone posted this in the cragislist link a couple weeks ago. I went and looked at it a week ago. The owner called me this week and accepted my offer on the boat. It has not really been run in 9-10 years. The guy who had it at his house thought it had been run three years ago. I am not so sure. It has been sitting outside for a long time with a blue tarp on it. Treated plywood floors, lots of gel cracking, dings and scrathes, interior is history, etc. The windshield is in great shape and there are some good parts. Prop and rudder are straight. Has an original CC trailer too, though in rough shape. I may have been able to tow it home on it's own, but elected to trailer the trailer.
I will start messing with it next summer after the Mustang is done and on the lift. See if I can get it running and floating.

Mike tried t call last nite. Glad the trip went well, I assume no problems with the retreive.
We all need more toys to play with, but mostly to save any CC's that arew rotting away.
One last question tho, what is that White Stuff on the ground, and on the blue tarp over the pontoon boat?????????????????

Very cool that you got that, Mike- I kept going back and looking at the ad trying to figure out if I could make it work... with as much as I have on my plate, its better that you ended up with it! A 1st gen SN is on my wish list, though... I may have to sneak down to Reid's and steal one out of his warehouse when the time comes.

Id bet that the split windshield is original. They seemed to use them interchangeably with the single pane on all the boats of that era. Definitely keep it on the SN- but Id be on the lookout for an original one for the Mustang as well. Probably not a cheap item to get directly from Taylor Made, but Ive seen them pop up on ebay from time to time.

Reid's '67 with the split windshield:



Oh, and if you ever pick up another project boat with the trailer-on-trailer method, shoot me a message. Ive done that a few times and have improved my technique!