Ski Show Boats?

I have recently located a 1984 Ski Nautique that the current owner says was a special order Ski Show boat. He says it was stock with a 454 (for pulling pyramids ect..), came with a fiberglass swim platform, no back seat, and has a metal flake paint job.

Anybody have any knowledge of such boats being produced in the 80's specifically for ski show use?

Any information appreciated.

Eric,
It was in Craig's (wacko) other thread.

metal flake paint job

It wouldn't be a silver nautique would it?

Okay, got it. For some reason the pictures did not come up on the computer at work. Tech group must have the host site blocked......

I'm guessing it was a show boat if it has a bigger motor, sparkily gel coat, and dual cable steering. I've heard that dual cable steering was used in these boats as a safety precaution to prevent boat from entering the grandstands. The video is out there somewhere. It wasn't pretty.

The 2001 hull was specifically used for Sea World and NOT Cyprus Gardens. Cyprus Gardens was using at this time specifically Master Craft and most of those boats were blue and white. The Ski Nautique had just enetered the arena at Sea World! Cyprus Gardens used Correct Crafts back when they were made of wood and used them through the 1960's and stopped sometime in the early 1970's! Before this Sea World was using outboard boats like the glasstron-Carlson! Here is the photo taken of the boat that you are discussing from 1984 with all true colors shown. Included was a small write up from my Sea World program. I hope that this helps clear any confusion. The graphics on the side are not right, it is from a 1988, but notice that the stripe does not tail upwards where the 2001 sticker would go! Also the dash is clearly from a 1984 with the wood grain look and that special 2001 gold dash decal! Keep in mind that Sea World would pull their special pylon after the season and replace it with the 1984 factory pylon for obvious reasons! The pylon in the picture was made for Sea World shows!

There was an (as advertised) '85 with the above Red-White-Blue color scheme for sale a few years ago in Texas. It had a 454 in it too. The owner posted it on www.the2001.com but Erik feels my contributions to that site are no longer wanted.

Pauly, I hope you are bringing some of this stuff to Green Lake this year. Sure hope skierox brings that 99 Python SN too! We are definitely going to ski some ATBs.

Pauly, I am absolutely loving these old pictures- thanks for sharing! It is especially cool to see that some of these special edition CC's actually existed. It seems like half the older boats for sale have some bogus story about being a "Special Edition Promo/Seaworld/Callaway boat".

I love the vests that the drivers are wearing in the gray boats too!

Ah for the special story about my boat is the following.. the 1º owner was looking for a skiboat, so he went to the local dealer.. actually he acts as an intermediary of cc.. you do the import and he just helps and then collects a fee from cc so no boats on stock here....so it was almost december, he got the boat and asked how long would it take to have it shipped to Argetina.. they told him about 1 1 1/2 months... so by that time summer was at its ends... so he inquired which would be the fastest way to have it shipped. answer was by air... so it did and 10 day later boat arrived in a cargo plane...paying same price for freight as the cost of the boat itself...
So my boat is kind of special because is the only one here (in argentina) that actually got airborne...

I'm loving all this info, too. Wicked interesting. Pauly, why did it take you until Dec. 2008 to find this site?

My brother pulled our Barracuda with a GTO.

Hollywood, why are your thoughts no longer welcome at the other site?

i'm curious as well?!?! you seemed to be a pretty good resource for info and pics as far as i could tell.

Here is some more information on the black, gray and gold boat that TRbenj got out of the diaries! This one was origionally purchsed by a Correct Craft dealer Louie Raven, Boat Town of Texas and was the second place winner! They let it sit out side thier dealership in the hot, hot sun. They sold it to a guy in Texas that at some point lost the rear seat! He sold the boat to go to school to a police officer in Kansas. The guy in Kansas added a bimini top and hardly used the boat. The pictures that he sent me showed the boat as having a really cloudy clear coat! Also, large cracks all over the deck at points that a hole or screw was added in the metal flake clear coat. The boat had not been well taken care of by at least one of these owners. The guy who bought the boat for around $7,000 reconitioned the trailer and listed it immediately on CCF to make a decent profit. Too bad for the boat, but really a cool idea by Correct Craft in producing some wild colors with metal flake combinations.

Sorry it took me so long to join CCF! My excuse could be that I was busy skiing and or driving my boat, but in Minnesota that really does'nt fly! I suppose that better late than never is good. It does seem strange to be a newbie after all these years of being around the product. I even worked for the first exclusive Correct Craft dealer here in Minnesota before the owner (Cal Brown) or CJ's marine had passed away a few years ago. He would have really enjoyed your site. Being around show skiing, three event, sales and service for over 40 years has really educated me on the product. Thanks for supplying the site and having me as a member!!!

Here are the photos of the Dallas boat!

Pauly Great memrobellia. You mentioned one of those yellow vests A couple of years ago Art Cozier from old So East CC cleaned out one of his closets at home and gave me a bunch of old Masters jackets and other Correct Craft Fashion from over the years and low and behold I now have one of those yellow vests.

In the picture of the Sea world skiers can any one identify anybody? I can as I ski with a few of them today.
One of the skiers is Joe Aloe Remember him ? he was a regular on the Coors light Freestyle jump competion.
Good luck with your boat. one of the best things you can do is do away with the dual tension cables and install A 21st century Rack and pinion single cable system. Just use the upper hole on your clamp block mount. You will love the way it drives.
I am currently resurecting a 92 Sea World boat all the dual cable system went in the trash. amazing it stayed in the boat that long.
Jody

Was it political? And you were either for or against Obama?

Another question for the knowledge base here, Would the red metalflake on the 1984 model be paint or would it be gelcoat?