Sport, Air, Super Sport boat differences

[DanielC]

In 2003, Correct Craft offered three levels of options on most of their boats. Team, Limited, and SE. Team was the top of the line option package, A Super Air Nautique Team Edition was the top of the line wakeboard boat, abbreviated SANTE.
The team editions also had the pushbutton controls, and no key. You entered a code to start the boat.
There were two different rear ballast tanks available, wedge and flat. The wedge held more water. Generally, the wedge went into the Team edition boats, but you could order the wedge tanks in any Super Sport, or Super Air.
They also offered a budget edition of the boats. It had a conventional key switch, and conventional switches for the accessories. I forget if the budget edition was the Limited, or the SE.
Also in 2003, at the beginning of the model year, the Super Air was just called the Air 210, and midway through the year, decals were made available, from Correct Craft to rename the Air 210 the Super Air 210.
At the dealer I worked at, when the "Super" decals arrived, we just stuck them on the "Air 210's" in stock, and after that, the same boat was the "Super Air 210"

Ask the bank guy if the boat has a key. Ask him if the bottom of the rear compartments in the rear of the boat have a angle bottom, or a flat bottom. Angled bottom, the boat has the wedge tanks. If the bottom of the rear compartment is flat, it either has the flat tanks, or no tanks.
In 2003 Correct Craft dropped the direct drive 21' 2" boat, and introduced the 206, and the 216. I think they were trying to go to just using a number to identify all the boats, and that is why the "super" name disappeared for a while.

If the price is good on the boat, you owe yourself a drive to go and look at the boat.

[ideal303]

so if you were to get a 03 super sport 210 LE or a air 210 LE what would be the difference?
because nada has a difference of 4k before you even start adding ballast and tower and different options.

This SS has the same colored dash and looks identical to the SAN.. right down to the push button start. (no wood covered dash) The clarion stereo is just the basic though.

Perfect pass is on it but I cant tell which one it is. Is there a way to tell from the pic?

The hull is all black and scuffed up pretty bad in some areas..
Is a black hull a lot hard to keep clean and looking nice?

and how hard is it to fix the scratches and stuff on the black hull?

The tower is all black and it looks like there are some chips of paint off that too.. There is no decals on the boat anywhere at all but it looks pretty sick cause its an all black hull with white interior and the tint wrap around the windshield.. I was looking for an 05-06 SANTE untill I saw this boat and the price.

What would you consider a good price to be?
under 300 hrs.. not sure about salt water use yet though.. need to ask, I'm assuming not.

The ballast tanks are the flats in the back and one in the belly.

Looks like it was wired for amps maybe tower speakers but it was most likely ripped out before the repo, can anyone tell from this pic?

Thanks for the help

[bchesley]

This is the first boat on the Wetsounds website in the nautique install section. There cant be that many 03 boats all black with a 06 210 tower on it. Pretty sick combo. Looks like Core Rider actually has a twin.

[DanielC]

There is no difference in the boat between a Super Sport, or a Super Air. Add tanks, a tower and air decals to a Super Sport, and it becomes a Super Air. Take a Super Air, and remove the tower, remove the tanks, and change the decals, and it is a Super Sport.
The Perfect Pass is probably a "wakeboard pro". I believe you can add magnets, and a jump switch, and with a reset of the program in the Perfect Pass, it can function the same as the Perfect pass they used in ski boats in 2003. Perfect Pass has probably released some updated chips since the boat was made, I have no idea if this unit was updated or not. For wakeboard use, it probably does not need to be updated.
Black gelcoat is high maintenance. There is no easy way. You will have to keep it waxed, polished, and wiped down every time you use the boat, and you need to make sure the towels you use on the hull are clean. I have heard stories of people buying new towels for the wipedown, and then using then for other uses after they are used once, and just throwing then away if they are dropped.
The black deck is rare.
A boat is like stock (wall street kind) or a horse. It is worth what somebody will pay for it.
Price boats in your area, get a feel for the going rate, and make a decision.

[wake4life6]

boat has been sold I'm pretty sure

[ideal303]

Thats wild that you can swap out a couple words and have a 4k difference in price for the same boat on NADA.

[HollywoodBall]

Necro thread bump. Greetings. I'm Steve from WV. Getting ready to buy an open bow "1997 Correct Craft Air Nautique" and in doing some Google image searches, can't find a boat stickered like the one I'm looking at. Boat has from what I understand a factory installed tower and no ballast system. Is this really an Air Nautique, or something else rebadged? I'm comfortable with the boat, and what I'm buying, but the inability to find an image of a similar boat and badging has made me more curious.

[hal2814]

It’s kind of splitting hairs on a 97 between an Air and a Sport. An Air Nautique is really just an option package for the sport for that year. That looks like an early FCT. The lack of any ballast makes me think that’s a Sport with Air stickers and a factory tower but Nautique was a lot more freewheeling about how you could configure a boat back then. Or maybe it had a ballast system and someone took it out? With a hull id you could ask Nautique. It won’t really affect the value of the boat either way. The installed options matter more than the factory nomenclature at this point for that boat.

[HollywoodBall]

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Makes sense. Thanks!

[Chris Parsons]

Looks like a sport not an Air. Not even sure if the decals are original Air decals.

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[HollywoodBall]

Well I bought it. Interesting follow up, it is titled (NC) as a Correct Craft Air Nautique, for whatever that's worth. But it is also badged on the dash as Sport Nautique. Hal2814's response seems to make the most sense.