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OverMyHead 
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 Posted: February-05-2012 at 6:08am |
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Talk with Joe about coosa (sp?) stringers. He is the expert on cossa and horsepower. He has the fastest correct craft on the site to date, despite having a hull generally believed to be slow. With his guidance you can smoke that 302.
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For thousands of years men have felt the irresistible urge to go to sea, and many of them died. Things got better after they invented boats.
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Hussler
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Posted: February-05-2012 at 5:52am |
Unfortunately its my spring break and I'm dedicated to class otherwise :( On a side note, you guys seem like one hell of a group! What, 10 welcomes in a couple hours?? Hopefully I'll learn a couple new tricks from you guys and I may be able to return the favor. And yes on the stringers, despite what they look like I will tear them out anyways. I plan on having this boat for, well, ever! This will be the 20ish floor job I've done and at least the 6th stringer job. I'm very excited, I've never had a boat worth putting money into. I guess we should get this build thread started right, whats the swankest material I can make my stringers out of? I usually just replace with wood but if there is something much more bad *** I'd love to hear about it. Its always come down to price point with customers but I dont have to put up with that **** anymore! 
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JoeinNY
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Posted: February-05-2012 at 2:13am |
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Plus one on the SJRR pickup plan.. I would do whatever possible to make that happen if I was you.
She is gonna need a little work to be sure. Interesting engine though. I started with worse and paid more.. if you are anywhere near the fingerlakes area let me know and I will be happy to get together and tell you all the stupid things I have done over the years so you can avoid them. |
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63 Skier
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Posted: February-05-2012 at 1:53am |
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Welcome to CCF. A Mustang with a 351 will really move, and if you ever want to bump that up to 300 HP you'll leave your friend behind pretty quickly!
The boat looks really nice, and your plan looks great to me. The fact that you're going to go right at the stringers means you aren't worried about taking on the project, to be honest the prospect of a stringer job is pretty daunting for me. Where in NY are you? Joe in NY on this site is an upstate guy, terrific souce of info on these boats. Good luck! |
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'63 American Skier - '98 Sport Nautique
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bhectus
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Posted: February-05-2012 at 1:30am |
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Welcome! If you're gonna make a road trip all the way down here to FL, then you might want to postpone another week and drive a few extra miles for the SJRR event. Kick off your introduction to Correct Crafts in style:
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'87 Barefoot - sold '97 Super Sport Nautique - originally custom built for Walt Meloon '97 Ski Nautique '83 SN 2001 |
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Hussler
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Posted: February-05-2012 at 12:08am |
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Oh, and by pure coincidence my friend mike (I think his SN is whitelakemike?) has a 1961 american skier with a 302. An important factor is to make sure my boat ends up being the faster one, don't you think?
I will be picking this pile up around the 9th to 18th of march, we are making a road trip out of it. NY to florida and back! Any good sights to see on the way through guys??? |
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Hussler
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Posted: February-04-2012 at 11:54pm |
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Thanks for the welcome guys!
As far as "original" goes that ship has long since sunk for this boat. The engine is out of a cris craft, all of the interior guts are trashed/gone and generally will need a everything tweaked to make it fully functional again. My current thoughts are: -New glassed stringers front to back -New 1/2 glassed floor attached with SS screws -Respray the engine Old ford blue, make the wiring nice nice, replace any ugly components -Bright red carpet -Full length dash facia overlay 3/8 ply wrapped in red vinyl -Tastefull aftermarket gauges -Looks like new steering box and a new mid 70's mastercraft style steering wheel in order. -Gas tank facia, red vinyl -Seats, prob full length front bench, maybe 3/4 bench with port isle way red. -Full width rear vinyl seats, red -Exterior chrome, keep all original, rechrome/replace the junk with OEM. -3M the windshield (prob hazed plexi, hard to tell) -Get rid of all the blue Suggestions are more than welcome! |
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75 Tique
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Posted: February-04-2012 at 11:20pm |
Come on Pete!!! He's welcome here whatever he wants to do with HIS boat. That can get really old after a while. I am often compelled to extol the virtues of originality of OTHER peoples work but then I ask myself two questions. Is it my boat? Did he ask my opinion about keeping it original? If the answer to either of those is NO then I keep my mouth shut. I hate to crab at you Pete, because I consider you a friend and dont want to jeopardize that and I do really respect your passion for original and the fact that you have more knowledge in your little finger than I will ever have, but it doesnt give you the right to send people on their way who come to this site nor the right to pass judgement on others. |
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peter1234
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Posted: February-04-2012 at 11:19pm |
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looks like a good start to a project for the right money , good luck with it and dont be afraid to ask questions on here.
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former skylark owner now a formula but I cant let this place go
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Riley
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Posted: February-04-2012 at 11:17pm |
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Welcome to the site. Looking forward to seeing your progress! You'll get plenty of help, ask away.
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OverMyHead
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Posted: February-04-2012 at 10:58pm |
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Cool find, I think you got a good price but have a long way to go. Sounds like you need to start with the stringers, a big job you will want to do yourself but it sounds like you have the skills. Read up and ask questions. There is lots of experience, so no need to re-invent the wheel and no excuse to not do it right. Welcome and enjoy your classic boat. |
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For thousands of years men have felt the irresistible urge to go to sea, and many of them died. Things got better after they invented boats.
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8122pbrainard
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Posted: February-04-2012 at 10:43pm |
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Take some time to explore CCfan. Welcome to the site. Yes, we love pictures. Pictures off ebay? well, I imagine you would first need to copy them to your computer and then to the site. Please explain what you mean by "custom". Here at CCfan, most of our members prefer original. If you deviate, you may be better off at a different site. Sorry! "custom" 
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Hussler
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Posted: February-04-2012 at 9:40pm |
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Hey guys, new to the forum and new Correct craft owner! Just won the ebay auction tonight!!!
 Not sure if this is the correct place to post a build thread so mods, feel free to move it. What we have here is a 1965 Mustang with a 351w in it! Interior looks to be junk, stringers prob have some rot but the engine runs well and the hull is in ok shape. My career has been restoring interiors and hulls on all sorts of old boats, now I finally get to do my own! Anybody know how to pull pictures off of Ebay? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/?cmd=ViewItem&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649&item=130638411374&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT |
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