1990 BFN

Marinetex and good to go.

My half arsed tranny "rebuild" is doing fine! Im too dumb to test the pump with a lawnmower, tho.....

John, (JDD33) ,

That is a great looking boat you picked up last spring. Very Nice.

Donald

Thanks guys! It will be ready to play hard this summer!
I think I was was the phone call right before Zach and secured it!

Zach, nice find! You'll enjoy it for sure.
A side question, did that BFN you guys had at N3 ever get the 409 swap a few years back? If so how'd it turn out?

OK guys, here with the virus/working from home I thought I would take a little time to update the BFN project. While it was a very nice starting point the Gel was in much worse shape than originally thought.

We spent this winter sanding and buffing rubrail down to the chines. Photos below of before and after stuff. We took it down to many aggressive 320 passes to get all the yellowing out of the blue. Some still on the stbd but you can't really see it in natural light. Would have continued on but I found a thin spot in the blue on the port and didn't want to continue sanding aggressively.

Since it was the "Brochure" scheme for 1990 we stuck with the grey/white decal theme. I was able to get the colors of the pin stripes matched exactly and got a company to do a run of the proper sized pinstripe although it cost me.

The transmission had very dirty neutral but otherwise operated flawlessly. The plan was to throw in clutches and seals but I happened upon a supposed new old stock 72c locally. Cool story behind it. The owner (now 85 years old) was building California style V drive boats back in the mid to late 70s. He never built the last boat that someone had ordered and the transmission was never installed or painted etc. I cleaned it up and swapped the pump for RH rotation. We just fired it up this weekend with no dirty neutral and it goes out of gear perfectly fine. A test drive will tell the full story but it sounds good as is!

Despite the looks and the transmission condition we put somewhere around 80-100 hours on it last season so it is getting some good use. Matter of fact, the brown 85 didn't even touch the water last season.

Anywho, check out then progress photos below.

Love the pic with the Before and after gel. When you talk about thin spots that’s a sign of resolve. Maybe a time to get a waterline cover if you’re gonna leave it outside at all. Can’t wait to see the photos with new decals and pinstripe. This site is like one of those reality TV restoration shows except we don’t have to wait for the big finish—we get to see all of the wonder that goes on beforehand.

Either way you must bring the mustache back to complete the restoration.

I just remembered I had the 1990 CC brochure in my collection of car, truck, motorcycle, and boat "stuff". I also just remembered seeing a quote from Randy O'Malia on this boat in that brochure. I can't remember what I had for breakfast, but, I can remember seeing quotes from 30 year old brochures. :)

phatsat67 wrote: Growing out my corona beard and will shave into mustache when finished with the BFN.

Great looking work Zach,it sure is a surprise when your trying to sand the black spec off and it keeps getting bigger. You have a long way to go with the stash though Hollywood been working a long time on his



Dave you old timer do you remember the Correct Craft Dealer in Cary?

Gary S wrote:     Dave you old timer do you remember the Correct Craft Dealer in Cary?

What's that now young man??? What'd he say??

Gary....I know there was one here back in the day, but, I never was there. Was it Foxfire Marine?

Yea that's it Dave. It was in the Quonset hut just north of Kitchen Wholesalers that was torn down a few years ago. His name is Mike Doherty not sure on spelling though. His brother and him live a few houses apart across from the Cary Country Club. They are the 2 with Nautiques if you ever happen to go by. About 1988 when they opened, rumor had it they did it to get themselfs good deals on boats. My friend who got me into CC's worked the summer for them the first year as their mechanic. He grew up in the family gas station business and at the time was the Johnsburg HS auto shop teacher.

Hollywood wrote: I think that was the one in Fox Lake

That was Cramer Marine.

I know that guy. He says last year he wished he just threw 100 bucks in the river instead of buying the permit sticker maybe someone who really needed it could have found it. With the mother in law in and out of the hospital and the river being closed,2 hours were put on the boat last year. Don't know about the Mastercraft stuff or about their service/repair. The couple of times I was there my friend had not started helping them yet,they had no one there to do any of that

75 Tique wrote: This was kind of an old thread, so I went back and read the whole thing to refresh. In the intervening years, Ken sent me a video clip of his transmission testing set up. Pretty clever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGeiEI6ywmg

Alright Larry, your pickin' on my mower driven test rig has forced me to post a picture of my new semi modern transmission test rig.