Its Correct Craft Trivia Time!

Okay guys and gals! I came across a very interesting Correct Craft today in my travels. I am told this Ski Nautique is VERY special. Anybody want to venture a guess what may be special about it? Never, ever seen one like this before, and I have seen a lot of Ski Nautiques.

Any guesses on the year?

More pictures available.

For one it lives on a trailer with the worlds tallest bunks.

shouldnt an 83 have a three color stripe? strip looks like an 89. But it looks like an early 80s bow vent under the cover.

Those weren't bunks, they were stilts!!!

'83 is correct.

Hint: If I didn't know better, I almost thought it was a bass boat, except it didn't have a 700 HP outboard on it.    

Pete....didn't get that shot, but, I don't recall that it would have revealed any clues.

Man, that boat was "one of a kind" though. Check the gel coat scheme out.

Did this supposedly come from the factory that way? I'm not sure I like it. The Silver Nautiques had about all the metalflake I could stomach, but to each his own.

It looks to be a special edition boat, made for the '83 Masters like this one.

Pauly Banana shared some original literature about these boats in this thread.

Awesome, so that's the blue one? I would have guessed it was the middle/red boat based on the top pictures. Where is it?

sanity - Three!

MaddMarxx said he had an '85 Ski Nautique metalflake gel boat too.

There's an 88 on PN thats got metalflake. pretty cool looking boat

Doesn't the new 200 have some metal flake in the paint somewhere?

PAK,

CC brought back the Metal Flake in 2010', it's available as an option, not sure what the cost is.

Like the look of some Flake, replaced the black pin tape on my boat with Silver Metallic, Bling Bling!

David, where is it at, want to see it!

We had one custom made in 85, the metel flake stripe only 250 extra!

I like the metal flake, but, that '83 was just a tad over the top with it. A little goes a long way. Plus, it looked like water was getting under the gel at the water line and causing it to fog pretty bad in areas. I think if just the stripe was done, that would be in good taste and not too much.

I think those boats are very cool and thought how great it would be to own a 1 of 3 boat, and even cooler that David reported it was for sale. But then I thought too bad when Woody reported in the older thread that there were problems with the gel/metal flake process, as confirmed by David with this boat. You wouldnt think such a unique boat would end up for sale in a boat yard outside of Chicago.    

Interesting little bit of trivia in that old thread about HW being banned from 2001. And he's such a nice guy over here.