1955 Atom Skier Updates

Nate, I am sorry to hear about your loss. Oddly to me it makes your beautiful atom just that much more special. I have to believe you will always feel his presence with you in that boat. Good luck with the business. My prayers are with you and your family.

Dave

Sorry for your loss Nate. A prayer from me is heading your way too.

Maybe a little ray of light, is that there is something like CCFan, where you can find friends (and maybe even "family"), even if you never met a lot of them...

Wow that is tough Nate,sorry for your families loss.

Wow, you guys know how to work with wood.

That's a beautiful boat. Your Dad should have worked for Correct Craft. They would have made better boats back then!

Where's thie pics?

Just picked up the seats from the Upholsterer today. They look B-E-A-Utiful!
She's getting close!

David 58 wrote: Sounds like you know alot about restoring old woody's. I just bought what I think is an 58 Atom Skier. But I can not find any information to confirm that. It has A model# A.S. 231, and Serial # G5809. Do you know how to Identify what I have? This will be my first project and I am going to need some specs to figure it out.

The 'A.S.' is Atom Skier, the rest of the numbers/letters I am not sure of the meaning. Correct Craft had a fire or two I believe and all documents were burned.

When I bought my boat I had the nameplate like you found and nothing else, I actually discovered a metal tag on the gas tank to figure out what year the boat was. It wasn't until after this that I found in the bilge a key float that pulled apart and a registration was inside it. So that confirmed everything for us that already believed to be true.

Pete knows a little more about some of these, but in the end, they were almost all built differently (different colors, interiors, etc) because of people ordering them wanted them the way they wanted them... so your best bet is looking in the references here on this site (I haven't checked there yet to see if they have anything for '58) but I've managed to piece mine back together from talking to Pete and a few other guys on the site that have mid 50's Atoms but don't post as much.

Good Luck & Let me know if you have any questions. I'll try to help any way I can.

Nate

Sounds like you know alot about restoring old woody's. I just bought what I think is an 58 Atom Skier. But I can not find any infomation to confirm that. It has A model# A.S. 231, and Serial # G5809. Do you know how to Identify what I have? This will be my first project and I am going to need some specs to figure it out.

Looking good!   

Stainless 1/2 Oval.

And I'm not sure of what 'molding' you're talking about. I unscrewed & pulled apart this entire boat & I don't remember seeing any molding like that.

Nate

I see what looks like serious attention to detail in those pics. I'll bet your Dad is a proud man!

Nate,
How are you trimming off the hull side to deck intersection where the rub rail goes? Didn't your Atom have a extra piece of wood (a cap -molding) over the ply edge of the deck held down from the top surface about 1/8"? It's face is even double beveled to match the underside of the metal rub rail. All the CC plys I've seen we done that way. It just makes a good "seat" for the rub rail and also trims off the edge.

Billy's Dart was the first ply I'd seen without the wood cap. I feel it may have been removed during the so called "restoration" they did at the CC factory. Anyway, without the wood molding, Billy had issues trying to position the metal rub rail properly to the top of the deck.

Good call on the fake seams. I was going to add that above but decided to leave it out. I may be 1/2 original, but the ribbon looks way better than original or standard ply, so I'll sleep OK

Nate