1986 Barefoot Nautique

Hi All,
It's been 13 years since the last post about this boat, but I'm glad to tell you that 2 friends and I have bought it a few months ago!
We're planning on getting it running before the 2024 season comes around, although this looks like it might be a challenge.
When we bought it the only thing that was not disassembled was the engine, which has a cracked block.

Skipping ahead a few months, now the engine itself has been taken apart and sent of to the garage, together with another replacement block and crank. It’s a GenV instead of a GenIV, so still not sure this is possible or what adaptations are necessary.

We pitched up an old tent in my brothers garden (he's renovating his house), flipped the hull upside down and started the repairs on the bottom.

Once all the dusty work is done, we will move the boat to a closed garage for a repaint.
We would have liked to do a gel spot repair, but the damage is just too extensive.

This is our first boat "restoration" as well as our first DD boat, so safe to say we will encounter a lot of issues along the way. Seeing the amount of knowledge on this forum, I know we'll be able to sort them all out with a little help.

I'll try to keep this thread regularly updated on our progress.

Very excited to get this Barefoot back on the water!

Nice looking boat and should be a great project. Can't wait to see how this project comes out.

You guys should try and find a 502 BBC. I have no idea what Eric Lavine would have around but he seems to be pretty good at finding a needle in a haystack.

jo nautique wrote:

I really see black wood under that glass...
anyway if the plan is to leave the stringer I´d put tons of Cpes or like and cot them with the proper epoxy resin etc...

Nope Eric, not yet...
You got something lying around in your shop perhaps...?

Guys,
Trust me, I was even more sceptical than you...
But first we removed all the foam (and yes part of it was wet, as expected).
Two of the bulkheads were also wet and showed first signs of rot.
After removing all the foam and having the two main stringers remaining, we really checked them onto bare wood.
Maybe I didn't use the right words, but with a grinder we grinded through the glass wrap around the main stringers to check the wood. When we started, I even said to Jo and Tom that is was a waste of energy because they would have rot and would have to be removed all the way. But... they where dry at all the places we looked!! I still cannot believe it, because I've read so many posts on here that prooved the opposite.

If it was my boat, and I would be at this point, I would replace them anyway. But the two brothers are stubborn . So I'll leave it at that and tell myself that in the end it's their boat.
I hope I won't have to tell them "I told you so" somewhere in the future...

Amen to that.. Kristof, if you are going to go through all that resto, it would be best served by pulling the foam and making sure there's no water at all lurking in there...

Still not convinced those stringers are rot free dude..

Moj'

As Jo said, we checked out the main stringers by chipping away the fiberglass at a few places. To my great surprise (and moreso disbelief) they where indeed in perfect condition and dry!
So we're gonna close up the chipped away parts and put an extra layer of glass on them.

Spent the whole afternoon sanding her with Jo. Man, that anti-fouling is some serious nasty cr@p... Especially since its on layer upon layer... Everything in the shop is covered with a thick layer of white and gray dust

Kristof wrote: Seb, stay cool dude... They're coming LOL Jo has made some more pics. I told him to post them. No worries, I'll be at their house again on saturday and we will post them...

How is the project going? finished?

We need UPDATES!!! LOL

Tom,
Doing some work behind my back now??? That's not fair!

Pete,
ROFLOL!!!
Strange, on the phone he didn't sound all that bad

Greg,
Who's yankin' who's chain now buddy

Hi everybody,

My name is Tom, Jo's brother.

Today we did some more work, took out the engine support out, pulled the stikkers off, claend the inside a bit, and took out all the cable's.

We'll post some pic's tomorrow.

BuffaloBFN wrote: I wanna yank Kristof's chain, but I'll wait to next time.

Oh Yeah...??? Bring it on my friend, bring it on!!
Gonna pick up the phone right now and call you...

I wanna yank Kristof's chain, but I'll wait to next time.

We're looking forward to what you 'euros' come up with!

The crack in the block (and the freeze plug half out) and the milky white goo still leaking out of the dipstick hole:


Pic of the tranny (especially for you Eric ):


lifting the LPG tank out:


Pic of messy jobs by PO on the transom:


Looking over the work done so far and wondering if we should get ourselves another beer:

Hey Jo welcome to the comunity!!! I was going to ask Kristof if the you were they guy I met when I was there..and now I can confirm you are after thisw pics..LOL nice you have a long winter project...I have just finished my boat yesterday..after 6 months of work.. and the moment you put the last bolt turn the key and everything its ok its the best!!! I will follow your post with great interest ..keep up the work coming...