Site Sponsors:
Brochures:
1977 Correct Craft Brochure
1978 Correct Craft Brochure
1979 Correct Craft Brochure
Brochures:1977 Correct Craft Brochure
1978 Correct Craft Brochure
1979 Correct Craft Brochure
Diaries | Details
This boat's story has been posted by the owner. Please contact the owner with any questions. You may use the form below to send the owner an email.
Updated:
3/21/2007 (17 years ago)
Originally Posted: 7/18/2006
Total Views: 4,776
Owner: Nate Duricek
Forum Nickname: Nates78ski
Location: Rossford, OH
Model: 1978 Ski Nautique
Length: 18.0
Engine: Ford 351 Windsor
HP: 300
Hours:
Modify this Diaries Listing
Forum Nickname: Nates78ski
Location: Rossford, OH
Model: 1978 Ski Nautique
Length: 18.0
Engine: Ford 351 Windsor
HP: 300
Hours:
Modify this Diaries Listing
We purchased this boat two summers ago (Summer of 2004) just a few months after we bought our cottage. After being at our cottage for a few months, our lake was having its annual garage sale; where everyone around the lake that wants to has his or her own garage sale. Well my dad saw this boat sitting outside this guy’s house a few weeks before this but the guy was asking too much for it. So my dad decided to stop by the house during the garage sale & offered him $2000.00, a few hours later the owner called & told him that he just bought the boat.
To be honest when I first saw the boat I thought it was somewhat hideous, but even at only 18 years old I knew of the Correct Craft reputation & what the boat could become should I so desire. So we used the boat as it was for the remainder of the summer and the more I used it the more I was getting into the idea of restoring it, well that idea wasn’t a tough sell on my dad as he had worked on boats for 10-15 years & restored/rebuilt Antique Mahogany Runabouts for about the same amount of time.
So that winter we started the project, the boat needed new everything, & there was a few things that maybe it didn’t NEED but we believed it should have to help modernize the look a bit. We did a complete restoration of it: Removed all Interior, Pulled all original Carpet, Sanded entire hull down, & rebuilt the engine (which we later found out while pulling apart that had 3 of the 8 pistons had broken rings, yet she still ran like a champ that year).
So after 4-5 months of working on it & getting very close to completion my father suddenly had a heart attack, while he was in the hospital we still talked constantly about what needed to be done on the boat to get it done & ready for the Owners Reunion that was taking place @ Cedar Point just a few weeks from that point. Well a few of the guys @ my dad’s shop helped me drop in the motor & do some of the install work to get it running. We got it running and I believe just three weeks out of his quintuple bypass surgery we went to the Reunion and took first place in our class with our "Brand New 1978 Garage Sale Boat".
To be honest when I first saw the boat I thought it was somewhat hideous, but even at only 18 years old I knew of the Correct Craft reputation & what the boat could become should I so desire. So we used the boat as it was for the remainder of the summer and the more I used it the more I was getting into the idea of restoring it, well that idea wasn’t a tough sell on my dad as he had worked on boats for 10-15 years & restored/rebuilt Antique Mahogany Runabouts for about the same amount of time.
So that winter we started the project, the boat needed new everything, & there was a few things that maybe it didn’t NEED but we believed it should have to help modernize the look a bit. We did a complete restoration of it: Removed all Interior, Pulled all original Carpet, Sanded entire hull down, & rebuilt the engine (which we later found out while pulling apart that had 3 of the 8 pistons had broken rings, yet she still ran like a champ that year).
So after 4-5 months of working on it & getting very close to completion my father suddenly had a heart attack, while he was in the hospital we still talked constantly about what needed to be done on the boat to get it done & ready for the Owners Reunion that was taking place @ Cedar Point just a few weeks from that point. Well a few of the guys @ my dad’s shop helped me drop in the motor & do some of the install work to get it running. We got it running and I believe just three weeks out of his quintuple bypass surgery we went to the Reunion and took first place in our class with our "Brand New 1978 Garage Sale Boat".