1983 Ski nautique update

Looks like it's gonna be great. Can't wait
for the final pics. You gonna pull it with that classic camaro.

BKH

Thanks guys, I am excited to see it come together. I still haven't found an engine yet. The girl I bought the boat from let the boat fall apart. Block and 1 head was cracked. I am probably going with a rebuilt 351W engine. It should be ready to go this spring. Final Assembly will be over X-mas. I am in college so my time is limited to work on my projects!

lol, no the camaro won't be my tow rig. That car has 1,300 hours in it. 68 Camaro, Fuel Injected Small block, TH400 trans, Corvette brakes, custom suspension, 17" custom wheels, rhino-liner on the underbody. Custom Interior and still can't decide on paint. I am leaning towards a blue simiar to the boat!
All the work has been done by me on both boat and car.

When do you find time to study? And you sure must have some kinda good job to be in school and have cool toys. I musta misspent my youth..........john

Convo: No, there is no relation in S. Carolina area.

John: Nice boat, I remember seeing your boat on here awhile back and thinking wow that is one clean boat.
This project is both my brother and I's boat. My projects are 3 hours away from college so that keeps me from spending all my time hiding out in the garage. When I am at home I have a tough time getting out of the shop. I work in marketing PT while going to school FT. I work hard and save my pennies.
I love to do bodywork, paint, and fabrication which keeps my budget cost down.

Markb:
    You know we were going to paint the dash black but we talked ourselves out of it due to the heat of black.
I am not for sure what kind of seats we have. I believe they are standard. They are the full rear seat, the front benchlike lookout seat, and the bucket captains chair. We had the seats custom re-upholstered white w/ 3 black thin stripes. Turned out great.
I wanted to do the interior from a newer style Nautique, but couldn't find any at a decent price.
I am considering building a moveable chair to go behind the captains chair due to all that dead space.-Like the new nautiques have.
I will add a picture of the dash to my web so you can see it a little better.


                  

Brian,

   yeah I am 99.9% sure it is an 83'. I remember wondering that myself until I checked the t*tle, and also the vin shows the year in the digits. I don't know if maybe the rubber bumper guard is throwing you off. We did away with the aluminum stuff and went back with the rubber stuff to bring the boat up to date. The one thing with the year that has thrown me off is the front air duct. I don't know if I have ever seen an 83' with its style, normally it seems like they have the two black louvers on either side. I dunno though!

Andrew,
I'm with markb, I think the boat is older then a 83, more like a 77-78. The front air scoop does not have the teak strip top on it. I would really be suprised if it truely is a 83.

Have fun with the project.
Scott

This has really got me wondering now. The t*tle says 83. Here is what has me confused:
1. the front air duct is different from 83's, more like the 80's. The top air duct piece is fiberglass, it isn't the wood one.
2. The rear seat sets on the ground. There is no base that raises it up.
3. The windshield had the vent windows where you could turn them out and get air, but they were broken so I replaced them with a solid piece of glass.
4.http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=817&sort=&pagenum=2&yrstart=1981&yrend=1985
The paint scheme looked ideticle to this boat (minus the gold 2001 part) before I stripped the paint off.
5. I see what you guys mean about the bottom rear part, my boat is flat, but the other 83's have the arch on the bottom.

This has really got me wondering. I deal with cars a lot and see sometimes that in the factories they will use the last years parts for the next year productions. Like for example early production cars in 65 may have some 64 parts that were left over, so they use those parts up before going with the 65 parts. That still wouldn't make sense, because the shell of my boat looks like an 80 I believe.

Here's an interesting related thread:

Difference between ’81 and ’82+ Ski Nauti

The 1981 boat billgatesceo was looking at had the tapered chines, but not the vee-hull ...just like yours.

I dunno, I am all confused on the year now.
When I get back home I am going to re-check the Serial but I remember seeing the 83. I am going to call correct craft and find out if they have any info. on file and maybe I can get it figured out. It doesn't really matter that much on the year, but it is odd.

You will find the Hull ID Number on the right side of the transom, just below the rubrail.

For boats made in the US between 72 and 84:

12 digit code

Example ABC 12345 1272
- First Three Digits are manufacturer code
- Next five digits are serial number
- Last four digits are month and year for date of certification. This is not the model year, but the date the boat was made.

Alternatively another code was used between 72 an 84:

Example: ABC 12345 M73E
Last four digits indicate model year with last digit representing month made as follows

A - August          G - February
B - September       H - March
C - October        I - April
D - November        J - May
E - December        K - June
F - January        L - July

Boats made after 84 use the same code used today:

Example: ABC 12345 A900

First three - manufacturer code
Next five - serial number
Next letter - A through L, corresponding to January through December.
Next digit - Year boat was made
Last two digits - Model year of the boat.

Hope this helps.

BKH


     

The new serial stuff I knew.

For the older stuff, I looked it up a few months back when 75 Nautique had a serial numberquestion.

The internet is such a great tool for looking things up quickly.

BKH

Andrew,

1979 or 1983, it doesn't really matter..the important thing is the end result and whether you had a great time doing it.

From what I can see it looks really good and will look awesom on the water.

Woody,

    It may be so. Don't the Ski Tiques say Ski Tique on the side?

The reason I am confused is, I completely stripped the gel-coat off of this boat and it had the original factory painted Ski-Nautique graphics on the boat, and the rear, and had the exact same stuff as a Nautique. I will check the serial number when I return home, but I am not real sure that the boat is a Ski Tique.

How long is it? the STique is only 16ft. and change....so I highly doubt that it's anything but a SN.

Check out this ref. section link:http://www.correctcraftfan.com/reference/1979_brochure/index.asp?page=09

If you look at the pics closely, first you wonder why referees wearing nut huggers are hanging out on the boat.....(gotta love the seventies).... but it looks like the same scoop in front, single plastic vent thing in the back (my 82 2001 has two), and the dash has a more pronounced 'hump' for the steering wheel than my rig....So I vote that it's a '79 SN.....

Woodyelc is right it has to be a Ski Tique (if it was built in '83)

If it was a Ski Nautique it would be just shy of 19ft.

Mystery solved.