Other 3 Event Ski Boats of the 80s

Throw Back Thursday.

If you guys are enjoying this old thread coming back to life, you will really enjoy this one from 2006. Unfortunately many of the photos are now missing but it is still a very entertaining read.

http://www.correctcraftfan.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5284&KW=maliboob&PN=1&title=name-this-boat

There is a new builder in FLORIDA called Custom Ski Boats they moved from Australia and were supposed to be "sponsoring" the World Barefoot Center with a couple boats but due to reasons unexplained the partnership never happened ...David Small assured me everyone was going to own a CSB barefoot outboard...but they are still skiing the old Sanger outboards. CSB builds a closed bow inboard barefoot boat as well as an outboard closed bow.

75 Tique wrote: [QUOTE=GlassSeeker] ....probably the only mfgr today offerring a closed bow skiboat

If I'm not mistaken there are two others, Centurion Carbon Pro and SN200CB. I don't think MC nor Malibu do any more but I also seem to recall that even tho Malibu doesn't market a closed bow Response, it is still available. I be Bruce knows the answer to that.
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Malibu turned their old 1998 Response into a walk through bow rider. No more closed bows for them. Mastercraft has the fiberglass hood that makes their ski boat look like a closed bow, but it's a bow rider. Sanger makes the only dedicated barefoot boat, don't they?

GlassSeeker wrote: That Super Fly High is standard equipment at barefoot tournaments both national and world competition

Greg's BF tug behind which we have been working on our LLBDs. I'm sure it helped. Now I have to wean myself down to my regular fly-hi and then I'd like to take it all the way down to a regular pylon pull.

GlassSeeker wrote: That Sanger DX and DXII inboard sure has staying power its still being built exactly the same as back in 88....probably the only mfgr today offerring a closed bow skiboat

That's one heckova fly high on that bad boy.

Swatkinz wrote: Hey guys, Mastercraft--super sleek lower profile, superior slalom wake (to most brands of the day), Powerslot option, wet, rough ride. Platform seemed alot smaller than a CC. L shaped observer seat was uncomfortable as was the rest of the boat. Remember Camille Duvall? Damn she was fine.

This the one you were referring to?

It was a great boat. Only qualms would be that they ride a lot rougher than a 2001 of the same vintage, and the spray at slalom speeds was considerable. Shortline slalom in a head wind you were getting pelted. Great trick and barefoot hull, though. She'd run about 48 with the 240hp 351 and a 13x13 wheel. As you can see, they were quite popular in our ski club during that time:

Hollywood wrote: dsums wrote: To this day I feel it was one of the best laid out and most comfortable driver areas I have come across. Everything was right where it needed to be for spending hours driving. In terms of driver seat/body comfort American Skier is the best I've ever driven, period

Agreed, the driver seat and padded armrest were much nicer than what CC had to offer back then. We had an '87 Advance with a PCM 351.

dsums wrote: To this day I feel it was one of the best laid out and most comfortable driver areas I have come across. Everything was right where it needed to be for spending hours driving.

In terms of driver seat/body comfort American Skier is the best I've ever driven, period. Correct Craft was way behind until the rotocast bucket seat (still not better but very, very good) but the CC 1987+ instrument panel was also a major improvement.

Never been in a Supreme, looking forward to it.

Interesting thread. Nice to see all the boats from our past. I had a 87 Ski Supreme from 1991 - 2006. Similar to the one in the beach pictures. Mixed feelings when I sold it to get the 196. Had a good slalom wake, superb trick wake which made it a pretty good boarding wake with the extended pylon. Boys wanted a tower but there was no way I was adding a tower to a classis tournament boat. Too much of a traditionalist I guess. To this day I feel it was one of the best laid out and most comfortable driver areas I have come across. Everything was right where it needed to be for spending hours driving.

KRoundy wrote: I was right about that steering thing after all! I wonder what that looks like - as in how it physically operated?

I will be back in my cousin's shop in the next month or so. I'll snap a few pictures so you can see how it works. Basically the steering cable goes down one side of the bilge to the rudder, the same as it does in all inboard tournament boats, but there's an extension on the cable. So after the connecting point at the back/rudder, it goes back up to the tracking fins where the very end of the cable engages the one rotational fin.

That may not be a great description. The rudder connects at a mid-point in the steering cable and the CATS fin is at the end. That makes the cable longer than normal and it goes from the steering wheel area to the rudder and then halfway back up the boat.

I'll post the pictures in this thread.

Since I know you guys love pictures, here's a couple of my recently restored 1993 Centurion Falcon. Before:

Nautiquehunter wrote: Wrong George Fowler that George Fowler was Marlin Perkins.

I think that that George Fowler who you think was Marlin Perkins is really Jim Fowler

Wild Kingdom

I miss that show Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with George Fowler.