2007 SV211 Refresh

[FMSKI]

Started a new thread for the makeover series.

A bit of messy execution on this vintage styling/artistically. Space-balls Gothic. It's hideous, frankly.
Too much nasty silver, too much nasty blue. Need to offset that and tone it down.
Removed the decals, all the decals. reduce visual complexity. I am going to delete the lawyer-up decals too

Wet sanding the hull I started with 320 in the discolored areas

My first experience with the "air" or cross series. Quite a bit different than Ski-model designs, with the complex molded interior/floor, tons of freeboard and deep V. This is a lot of boat!! Pretty cool tho.

Have the EVA flooring (in walnut/coffee), new steering wheel on order. New shift knob done in house.
Perfect pass kit, Fatsac ballast bags on order

Going with 3" Chromax lettering ..
NAUTIQUE or TUBE NAUTIQUE

Haven't got a tower yet. That SS grill at the back is strange. I might paint that white. to clean up the side visual.
After owning DHM and a Boatmate, this trailer is eek. Strong tho.

[FMSKI]

Wet sanding did take down the hull to decent coloring. Didn't have the right paper steps, so bought 400-600 sticky back/pad and that worked great. Also have 1000.

Followed by : RUPES 150 mm (6 inch) High Performance Coarse Cutting Foam Pad D-A with 3M Super Duty Compound , on a fast drill /pad is giving great results
Followed by Autoglym Ultra Deep shine and then Chemical guys Orange coat, because I have some.

The interior had a film of sticky grunge. I thought the interior was shade of grey, but it's actually a bright white . Tricks I've used in the past are Lestoil brush on, or Comet. I went with Comet this time and some serious scrubbin'. Comet does a great job of cleaning the grain and then leaving a natural matte finish, as well as removing any grease in its wake.

Teleflex mirror is mounted up.

Perfect pass install underway, man those plugs in the gateway box, ouch. And I am now cutting the dummy hole out in the gauge bezel.

Oh and opened up the little transmission flap vent and replaced with a clear tube and filter. That vent can get stuck closed around here (cold winters) and over pressure the trans in the summer, blowing the front seal.

A guy who is selling his 1999 Air and quitting watersports, sold me a boards and ballast kit today. Sweet stuff.
Thinking about mounting up the extended pylon I have until I can source a tower.

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Perfect pass installation done, and it controls but.. no RPM is shown and hunts at surf speeds. Called PP and going to do some diagnosing.
Faria gauges, polished up a bit, work great no evidence of water intrusion.

Polished blue just glows (no filter applied!). Drives great, effortless speed with the V-drive and sitting higher vs a SN200. Ramps quickly to 40 mph feels like low 30s.
As noted water test and huffed a little too much exhaust so looking into that.
The snap covers, despite fastener clutter, have to say are convenient. Going to get those remade in either white, lt grey or to match up with the flooring.
The attempted match & miss on blue is horrific.

[FMSKI]

Tried out the fatsacs ballast and h3x surf gate. Got a couple of surf sets in which were really good, and one skiing - which wasn't too bad either.

This awesome steering wheel showed up today, and I have a "hot boat" shifter installed from the FM/G9 shop here. The steering wheel feels great and so does the shifter!
Oh my gawdy can't eradicate the space-balls theme fast enough. But it's gonna be some work tho.
So many shades of grey and silver in this interior so it will be a bit before I figure it all out, depending on time available.
My seadek flooring has arrived as well, but UPS failed to drop it off. Maybe tomorrow. The color of the EVA is a bit critical to where to go with the overall look.

"Too much seadek" is a comment levelled by some legendary pro boarders re: the new boats and I agree. If you look at Chris-Craft's brande new Sporster 25 or a modern day Airstream, a woven flooring is used and it's really classy and nice. $350 a yard. I went with a blend of carpet and EVA teak on the Interceptor project and that looked fantastic.

lastly spent the better part of today, re-jigging the Bimini top, as the supports were kinda backwards and everything was too loose. Needs a new top and I don't like the front straps, that's gotta go.

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EVA Stick-on flooring installed today. Took advantage of a no-ballast and scorcher day to remove the rubberized grid tread pads. Did all that and kept at it in sections, until complete at sundown.

I went with a coffee/mocha brown EVA to not collide too much with the high-energy medium blue panels. The typical orange decking would have been in color competition, detracting from the classic serenity I'm trying to move toward.

Not a fan of in-floor deep-sea trap-door fish-hold look, so am going to get that main carpet renewed with a like-color flooring or carpet (no snaps).

Installed an amped 10" subwoofer (Hyanka - Amazon), have a BT adapter & with the Clarion at vol 25, iphone set low, it all sounds great.
Waiting on my heater core and a few other parts from Miami SN.
Also have a lead on a Roswell tower I might get, but would have to narrow it up.

[FMSKI]

After laboring over this, I came up with a design "rule" that I fell into with the TSC1 Interceptor project. I brought the hull colors into the interior and it was spectacular.
On that project the Masters green hull stripe became the luxuriously main carpet color. The earthy taupe hull stripe was represented in the teak flooring color.

On this SV211 the interior accent stripe follows the hull mid stripe. Therefore the darker blue can be the luxury carpet color. I did a mock-up and really like it!
The teak deck will follow an accent stripe to the hull that I have ordered and will add when I get the boat back on the trailer.

PS: Roswell Aviator Pro OEM Moomba tower is on order, in white, on sale
stock. Hope I can narrow this thing!

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Big box arrived, unpacked, assembly, fab, marked, drilled etc and tower mechanical done ! Took a full day and then some. Had to rescue my ski buddy in his GT40, DOA towed to my place and fixed that next morning.

1. Fabbed 0.15" acetal/dbl side tape filler plates to go in step plate wells - allowing the tower bases to sit flush, no problem. Bases have PE plastic gaskets that help with fit.
2. Used the stern end hole to position, then drilled 6 new holes, one for cabling.
3. By removing speakers, heater door, was able to bolt-up everything without removing any side panels. I did cut the existing port access hole larger (just thin plastic, used a knife)

Took a chance on this Moomba OEM spec tower on sale, and not only worked out, but it looks so on point for this boat.
- Rounded tubing consistent with upholstery and hull fillet radius
- Pattern of tube bracing (approx) echoes the design style of the rear deck and swim platform
- Modern and up-to-date styling/function

Had to narrow the fitment by a good 2". We dropped in the tower with the center bar taped, then I re-drilled the 16 top-bar bolt holes (standing in the boat) for a perfect, non-stressed fit.

Sure is fun and an occasion, building a project and being on the lake at the same time. My wife, son and neighbor pitching in to help out. Never had a tower before. Give it a test tomorrow - I'll ski it 32 off and see what that is like.

[FMSKI]

Rigged the existing bimini top to the tower, worked out great. Going to need new fabric & hardware soon, as the bimini is likely original
Added an fit-to-tower board rack and another on order.

Did the speaker grills in the new accent color - a pewter gold to soften the harsher silver.
Carpet arrived and looks great - Corinthian Aqua mat.
Also put in a new bilge fan that is so sweet, quiet and moves a lot of CFM. Found another vent hose leak... and no more bilge fumes at the helm
New NGK Laser Iridium plugs with dist cap and rotor.

Next is adding some walnut veneers and tinting the steering wheel. Heater core and decals arrive soon as well.
Been surfing pretty nice in the warm lake these days.

[Neptune442]

This is looking great! Impressive attention to detail.

[FMSKI]

Thanks Neptune! Details do make all the difference. From a design standpoint I want things to flow or connect, functionally and style/visually. Also to have that appearance as if they were.. you know, stock from factory-look, if one didn't already know the boat. The motif or vibe is sport luxury, ala Cadillacs of the mid-century . I guess.

Got the new heater core in, which prompted me to rid the messy-mesh panel and replace with foam-backed vinyl. Also wired up some striking tower-LED's to the courtesy circuit, since it was right there. Working quickly, 1st go at it and the results are pretty cool for bling. I might add an on/off switch as I do like the subtle stock pinpoint LEDs only.

Colored with steering wheel from wheat to white (umm or should it be gray?) and added a "period correct" Nautique wood shift knob, walnut stain with clear coat.

Next .. The shift panel lawyer decals need to heave-ho and adding walnut veneers to the glove and storage doors, for that Caddy style.

New 645 Team Ed 16" pitch prop on order, second board rack has arrived. Chrommax insignia are here too - 18" NAUTIQUE transome style..

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New 645 prop is on and love it. The old 381 prop was out of spec (rocks on a flat surface). the new 645 is bang on and super smooth, responsive. Boat attitude is more level, skis and surfs better as well.

Ala youtube I transformed into woodworker and chemist. Walnut glove box door, shifter panel and storage door. Used a sharpie method to draw-on faux seam lines. Multistage finishing process to get to an "elevated natural" finish, coloring to a deep walnut that matches the EVA flooring. That took a bit of time to do for sure, multi-stage finish (oil, ureathane, and turpentine mix, followed by a wax, oil mixture)... but learned a lot.

Got cold here so put my plastics shaper cap on and busted out an air dam in about 15 mins in the shop, dropped in first try! Luxurious smoke tint, 1/8" acrylic I had on hand.

Really happy with the LED light strip on the tower. It's beautiful and casts a nice glint off the steering wheel/dash, lighting the mid-ship to bow area. I will add a dimmer pot by the storage area like an RV would have.

Now I need the chromax NAUTIQUE logos in gold (not the **** chrome which I ordered)... and I need to get the stitching accent logos to gold from silver. IDK what's wrong with me but the colors need to flow, assemble, and make sense! Mid-century sport luxury is what we are after here.

[Scooter G]

Nice skills, looks nice!
Not sure how you got those lines so tight on the woodwork, I would think you only get one shot at that.
That air dam looks beveled at the top, how did you pull that off, heat gun?
Silver is working, gold, maybe?
Brand new boat, good work!

[FMSKI]

Not sure how you got those lines so tight on the woodwork, I would think you only get one shot at that.
That air dam looks beveled at the top, how did you pull that off, heat gun?
Silver is working, gold, maybe?
Brand new boat, good work!

thanks - The process I am using for the wood "resurfacing" is walnut veneer I found on Amazon. 3M backed stick on stuff. Apply oversize then trim with a super sharp box-style knife. Bevel sand the edges as you can see. Then the finishing : I wanted lines to match up to the flooring and give a nod to traditional marine teak. Initially tried SEM paint and masking but it was bad. I looked a burning but then tried a Sharpie and voila, went for that. I had mixed feelings but in the end it works.

3 coats of mixed base coat, followed by several coats of a mixed wax finish. This the glove box after 1st and 2nd coat. I am doing the cargo door now. Now the question is if this system holds up over time! Note I got rid of the decals at the shifter that scream at you.

Air dam: The acrylic molds at 250F ish I think, so just used a heat gun and vice. After looking at it, the air dam should follow the same tint as the windshield that would be sick.
Initially I thought dam options are to match-to bow vinyl, or as hull deck glossy. The bringing down the glass-look is the coolest for sure.

I ordered actual 1/2" walnut wood board to CNC some more parts. Stay tuned

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Storage door is done.

I did get some solid walnut board from KJP hardwood. I am going to make board rack forks from the walnut that will fit 2.5" thick surf-style board and one side , wider spaced slalom ski(s).

Also for the transom logo I did a smoked panel - ties into the air dam tint, also allows removal for polishing, and breaks up the fridge-door I/O look of this SV211 back end. Teak or walnut grid would help too!

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I think we are done surfing for the season, see if I can set-up this beast for better skiing - so my buddy doesn't toss the handle . The key is weight-in (surf), then all weight out (slalom). I mean all possible baggage. It's a good thing there is no stock ballast system and pumps. To pull inches of draft it's going to have to be serious shedding of lbs.


I pulled the seat cushions, carpet, engine panels, Lithium battery on order.
And went at the swim grid. It's a back-breaking whopping 60+lbs at the worst possible location for wakes.

OMG, after removing it's like whole new deal. Low bow (cool), no rise-up and screamin'. Steering is crazy light too. It absolutely rips...I'm in love!
Grid project underway.