Nautique Excel

They are a unique boat...... For Correct Craft. Not a lot of OB Excels made....

The PlayPen up front is very small and not deep. You don't want very small kids up there alone and most adults don't want to be up there either. It is the same as a SNOB of that era..... no diff. Walk through windshield is really nice for docking/tying up and air flow on hot days.

Excels are GREAT runabouts and family boats but don't do anything really well. Pretty terrible slalom boats, average trick boats as the wake is washy and good wakeboard boats for new - intermediate riders. I am told (by Uncle Todd) that the Barefoot wake is very good. The Excels handle like a dump truck and the Barefoots handle like a loaded dump truck.

They are the most comfortable Correct Craft 20ft boat ever made. They are perfect for families and maintain the lines of the Classic Ski Boat. Storage is immense without a tower. I love Excels! Had an Excel and sought out a Barefoot. But I am one of the few........... I don't like driving them in a course, or behind one with my Slalom ski on.... but the rest of the time it was a great boat to raise the family in..... it IS NOT like an 83 in ANY way.... It is, however, the perfect 2nd Nautique.

I remember one pulling me at a barefoot endurance tournament, found myself outside the wake and wanting to go in the wake due to chop, and found the wake to be what appeared to be at knee-height wtf. Though the table inside it looked very nice, i forgot my stepladder.

Steve knows best having had one, and described it as I would, a fun all around boat, but not great at anything in particular. the only thing I would add, having been around a friend's a bit is that with the 351 vs the 454, it is a bit sluggish. I could barefoot with it, but it took a while to get there. Not sure of top speed, but my impression was, sluggish.

BTW - I would love to put a 6L in the BFN..... maybe at 1200 hrs.......

Air206 wrote: BTW - If it is a Gray 93 OB with a Teal secondary, I think I know that owner...........

I think this is the boat in question.


I passed on a red 93 Excel open bow with dual bucket seats years back. Haven't seen another one setup like that since.

Bakchose wrote: Air206 wrote: BTW - If it is a Gray 93 OB with a Teal secondary, I think I know that owner........... I passed on a red 93 Excel open bow with dual bucket seats years back. Haven't seen another one setup like that since.

Was it an Excel at Adirondack?   There also was a nice private party Cranberry in NH.....

It was the one at Adirondack Marine. They wanted $17,900 and it was out of my price range back then. The one in NH was an open bow with dual buckets? I've only seen a couple of closed bows with the buckets. The one at Adirondack Marine was the only open bow I've seen with the buckets. How long ago was the NH excel for sale?

Also would it have a better wakeboard wake and be able to surf over a 83?

Call me if you want..... I know some about Excels and this one particularly, maybe a little too.    

quinner wrote: Are Excels, regardless of year, wood stringer boats?? That has always been the word on the street.

   I have nothing to deny those rumors......

quinner wrote: ........And if so would an OB require the entire deck being removed to do a stringer replacement??

   No........ It's like a SNOB, not a Sport.... plus, in an Excel the main stringers are wider than a DD. There is a lot of bow either way..... not a fun place to re-string either way.....