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I am pretty new to this site however I am a longtime Nautique fan. This site is a great resource and I have been able to obtain a lot of information about my restoration project. I wanted to share some info and pictures of my restoration. I have wanted one of these boats since they were brand new, took me nearly 20 years but I finally am fulfilling my dream. I purchased this boat about 4 months ago from the second owner, who purchased the boat from the original owners who ran a ski school down south in the San Diego area. The boat lived its life in salt water and although it was equipped with sacrificial anodes all over, there was a decent amount of corrosion. The guy I bought it from had the intent on restoring it and he made it so far as to rebuild the engine and acquire most of the parts and pieces needed before he gave up on it and it sat for a number of years on jack stands in a field. I bought it right before summer with the hope that I could quickly get it into shape so we could enjoy it over the summer. I started by completely disassembling everything, all of the interior came out, the tower, windshield frame, brackets and grab handles, locker dividers and hatch cover hinges all went out for powder coating. We spent a week of 8-10 hour days in 100 degree heat, repairing damaged gel coat, filling holes for things I wasn't going to use anymore, sanding, wet sanding, buffing etc. It came out great. I still have some work to do below the waterline but that'll get done this winter. I managed to get the interior back into reasonable shape with a whole lot of cleaning and since we have little kids we decided to try and get a few seasons out of the interior before we redo everything. I plan to do sea dek flooring (I have the accy kit coming from dek designs at the moment), all new vinyl with some updated colors and patterns. As I mentioned before the previous owner had rebuilt the engine but never got it finished up and running. I got it all assembled with new exhaust manifolds and risers, all new hose, new raw water pump, new alternator, new starter, new starter solenoid, first I figured out that my port keypad was barely functional, so much so that I couldn't get it started. I finally got that solved and got it fired up but it kept blowing up oil filters. We determined that the oil pressure regulator had frozen, so I bought a brand new oil pump, we pulled the engine and installed it, sure enough the old one was frozen up with assembly lube. I just finished a project to replace all of the gauges, along with a new steering wheel, it came out pretty nice. I have plans to do the interior as mentioned, a custom ballast system, custom surf gate system, underwater lighting, and some stereo improvements. So far we are enjoying the boat immensely.
I am pretty new to this site however I am a longtime Nautique fan. This site is a great resource and I have been able to obtain a lot of information about my restoration project. I wanted to share some info and pictures of my restoration. I have wanted one of these boats since they were brand new, took me nearly 20 years but I finally am fulfilling my dream. I purchased this boat about 4 months ago from the second owner, who purchased the boat from the original owners who ran a ski school down south in the San Diego area. The boat lived its life in salt water and although it was equipped with sacrificial anodes all over, there was a decent amount of corrosion. The guy I bought it from had the intent on restoring it and he made it so far as to rebuild the engine and acquire most of the parts and pieces needed before he gave up on it and it sat for a number of years on jack stands in a field. I bought it right before summer with the hope that I could quickly get it into shape so we could enjoy it over the summer. I started by completely disassembling everything, all of the interior came out, the tower, windshield frame, brackets and grab handles, locker dividers and hatch cover hinges all went out for powder coating. We spent a week of 8-10 hour days in 100 degree heat, repairing damaged gel coat, filling holes for things I wasn't going to use anymore, sanding, wet sanding, buffing etc. It came out great. I still have some work to do below the waterline but that'll get done this winter. I managed to get the interior back into reasonable shape with a whole lot of cleaning and since we have little kids we decided to try and get a few seasons out of the interior before we redo everything. I plan to do sea dek flooring (I have the accy kit coming from dek designs at the moment), all new vinyl with some updated colors and patterns. As I mentioned before the previous owner had rebuilt the engine but never got it finished up and running. I got it all assembled with new exhaust manifolds and risers, all new hose, new raw water pump, new alternator, new starter, new starter solenoid, first I figured out that my port keypad was barely functional, so much so that I couldn't get it started. I finally got that solved and got it fired up but it kept blowing up oil filters. We determined that the oil pressure regulator had frozen, so I bought a brand new oil pump, we pulled the engine and installed it, sure enough the old one was frozen up with assembly lube. I just finished a project to replace all of the gauges, along with a new steering wheel, it came out pretty nice. I have plans to do the interior as mentioned, a custom ballast system, custom surf gate system, underwater lighting, and some stereo improvements. So far we are enjoying the boat immensely.
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I’ve gone back and forth on completely removing the PME and doing my own thing, I decided to just go for the factory stuff for now. If it dies again in the future I’ll do something different. Had a mishap today at the lake. My wife was driving while I ski’d, she didn’t see me or hear me yelling at her to turn and she ran over a really shallow rocky area. It’s maybe 1.5 foot deep, unmarked, she munched the prop pretty good and busted the rudder off. Looks like I’m spending about 1200 bucks to fix it. Somehow, nothing on the hull hit anything and the prop shaft support and shaft don’t seem to be bent or have any issues. The rudder sheared off clean and didn’t damage anything else. We had to hitch a ride back in with the sheriff, at least nobody got hurt. Cracked me up a little after the fact, the boat of course carried on beyond the shallow bit, and I let go of the rope and ended up coming to a stop, standing on my skis still, on the rocks.
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