1980 Fish Nautique with Twin Inboards

Hello all. New to the forum - Certainly not new to boats (currently own 5 boats- 3 Boston Whalers - 1 Monterey and now the Fish Nautique). I just picked up what I think is a pretty rare Correct Craft Fish Nautique. She is a 1980 23 footer powered with twin V6 Crusaders. I have only seen reference to two other twin powered 23's - The brochure doesn't even seem to mention it as an option.

Anyway - she is a project boat - The motors are out and need to be rebuilt - Two bulkheads need replacing - and the rear floors are wet - Not spongy under foot but definitely do for some recoring by look alone.

I will be looking for some advice as I am completely new to inboards. All my boats have been either Outboard or Stern Drive.

Here are some pics...

Yes its the boat from Brick - I picked it up for $1800- I am told the engines are GM - I am told they are 185 Crusaders with 1:1 velvet drives but don't hold me to it.

I was pleased with the buy - That trailer is actually aluminum. So I figure I only paid about $800 for the boat - I have to have that in parts on the pallet.

the props should spin outboard

Thanks - It will be slow to start - I have two projects ahead of it to complete.

Scott,
Nice find, welcome to CCfan and good luck with the rebuild. Keep us informed, the pictures comming and if you need any help with problems that may come up, we've got plenty of people here.

Do dig into the stringer system more. I guarantee you'll find more that just a couples "bulkheads" in bad shape. I suggest a complete rebuild/new wood and not just a patch/scab job. Plenty of stringer info here on site.

i think you could make some 5.7's fit lol just a touch longer

Scott, Welcome to the site and owner of a REAL boat. You've already made a least one friend (Eric) already by posting pictures of the tranny. He's our transmission Guru and always complains when someone posts an engine w/o the important part . You've come to right place and glad you found us. Keep us informed.

some 4 barrel manifolds and carbs might get you at the 210 mark,
just to be sure once in a while they will spin twin inboards, inboard, dont hold me to the outboard comment...but 95% of the time they will go out

eric lavine wrote: some 4 barrel manifolds and carbs might get you at the 210 mark, just to be sure once in a while they will spin twin inboards, inboard, dont hold me to the outboard comment...but 95% of the time they will go out

I am still undecided on power - I am considering twin small blocks very strongly. I figure if I am going to pull the floors and replace the stringers (which seems likely based on other fish threads) I might as well go all the way with the larger power.