1973 Correct Craft Ski Nautique Restoration

Hollywood wrote: "stars and stripes" ???

When I showed the local marina the photo of the original boat above, the guy at the counter said it was a stars and Stripe edition, once I get all the paint off the original lettering I will verify my findings, so far it is looking exactly like that photo. He was only aware of a few 75 SNs as part of the 50 year promotion that ever came with that package. Which leads me to believe that maybe it is not a true "Stars and Stripes" package but a neat looking combination non-the-least.

This is hilarious

Should have Art look it up and if it went thru Angola Ken just might remember that combo

Well i guess I look like the idiot here...

I should have asked here first before believing what I had been told, and jumping to conclusions...i'm going to go chew on my foot for a little bit!

Nope. You don't look like an idiot over this. You are just going off of information from some guy who doesn't really know. When Gary referred to having Art look it up, he is speaking about Art Cozier who worked at the factory (and still goes there often) since 1974 or so. He might be able to locate the original build sheet and shed some light on any special modifications that were made at the factory. I suspect your boat originally looked like the 1973 brochure and I agree that color combination is one of the classiest combinations ever put together. I may have missed it earlier in the thread, but if someone didn't already suggest this, then try to find the hull id and contact Art Cozier to see if he can look for the build sheet. That sheet would also state which engine was originally placed in the boat. Hopefully it verifies the BB 440.

Welcome aboard. You have quite an interesting boat. It has an enormous amount of potential.

pcjeeper wrote: Are there any Correct Craft Reunions in this area?

Not many, had one few years back in Angola on Lake James that was a good turn out. Maybe it will happen again soon.

TRBenj wrote: I would consider him to be pretty close to Green Lake, WI... Especially since there are some of us from NY, NC, OH, CT and sometimes FL and CA that make the trip.

Yes sir

If he could make it, we could caravan down!

Hollywood wrote: Fairly unmolested for a 40 year old boat but you never know what has been done by previous owners who may or may not remember things correctly... Is there any evidence of a hyphen between Ski and Nautique?

I will look for that this weekend

TRBenj wrote: Ha, no harm no foul... The boat doesn't need a fictitious back story to be cool! Plenty of folks out there with good intentions but bad memories who can't keep correct crafts and mastercrafts straight. The 50-yr anniversary he mentioned also implies that he's not very good at math.

Funny that's what i was thinking, but if it's a Special 48-year Anniversary Edition that would make it even more rare, & hence more valuable

JMurph wrote: pcjeeper wrote: JMurph wrote: Nope. You don't look like an idiot over this. You are just going off of information from some guy who doesn't really know. When Gary referred to having Art look it up, he is speaking about Art Cozier who worked at the factory (and still goes there often) since 1974 or so. He might be able to locate the original build sheet and shed some light on any special modifications that were made at the factory. I suspect your boat originally looked like the 1973 brochure and I agree that color combination is one of the classiest combinations ever put together. I may have missed it earlier in the thread, but if someone didn't already suggest this, then try to find the hull id and contact Art Cozier to see if he can look for the build sheet. That sheet would also state which engine was originally placed in the boat. Hopefully it verifies the BB 440. Welcome aboard. You have quite an interesting boat. It has an enormous amount of potential. It would be awesome to have the original build sheets, I believe that the H-ID is CT022440673. and it was purchased in Calumet Park, IL on 7/23/73. In 1973 the hull id should be formatted like this.... SN1234   The SN stands for Ski Nautique and the four numbers would indicate the sequence the boat was built. For example, my 1972 Ski Nautique has a hull id of SN18XX (I can't remember the last two digits). A 1973 Ski Nautique should be somewhere in the 2000 range. You can check the plate by your throttle. It should be stamped on there.

ok I will check that plate next time i'm in the boat, I just pulled the number from the registration...

Thanks for the correction. I was not aware of that mandate in 1972. I thought that came along much later.

Then it changed again a little in 1984.

Well some bad news, you cannot read the plate...

Any Ideas?

I also found the inspection from 06 when it was transfered from an IL reg to an IN it lists the HIN as CTC022440673-3NMU if that helps any???

Frankly I don't trust any state generated paperwork. Tell me what's on the boat.

It could very well be CT 02244 but doubt it. I'm not familiar with the 73-83 boats. 2 digit manufacturer doesn't seem enough nor do I suspect they planned on building 98,000 more boats soon.