Ski Show Boats?

All the metalflake boats started with clear gel coat first in the mold than the flake was sprayed on top than a layer of chopped. Then thay started to lay on the rest of the fiberglass the proper thicknest. The problem that came up after the boat was in the field for a while was the clear would start to crack. and water would get under and cause the clear to peel off. very hard to repair when this started. I remember those boats very well. Love the old picture of W.N.Meloon. We tryed to repair a Silver Nautique a long time ago. It became a nitemare trying to make it look good again. Thanks for all the old pictures. Woody. Service Manager @ the old Southeast Correct Craft.

This was the boat I bought back in 1985 when I worked at Correct Craft. It was special ordered with a blue metal flake stripe, only $150 more at the time, and a fiberglass platform. I would like to find it again someday.

Pauley, Where in Iowa did they drop off your boat? I am guessing Hartwick Lake Marine in Delhi, Iowa. Thats the only CC dealer I know of in Iowa and I am guessing it was still around back then due to the large amounts of old CC's still on that lake today!

Good discussion. I too think I owned a Sea World show boat. Over the years I have onwed three Nautiques a 1986, a 1990, and currently a 2002 196, but it was my first one the 1986 which (I bought in 1988) we beleive was a Sea World tow boat. It has a rare black hull with ivory deck, a PCM 454, no back seat, dual steering cable, and a second bilege pump under the tank. It origiannly came with a three blade 14" x 11 pitch prop that would pull your house off of it's foundation (later we switched to a 14x14 prop). The other unique feature it had was the rear decal read "Powered BY PCM". It also has the number "4" on the inside of the gun whale in the rear corner behind the drivers seat. Does anyone else have the matching unit to this one?

Yes, I'm reviving an old thread. This is just cool stuff.

So, Jaws III was on AMC this past weekend, and I noticed that in all of the ski show scenes they were driving the Glastron Carlson. That movie came out in 1983. I can't find any information but it's probably a safe assumption that the movie was shot in 1982.

Was 1983 the first model year that the SN was used at Sea World? I'm talking specifically about Orlando. My family made a trip to SeaWorld in 1984, if I recall correctly. When we walked out to the ski show stadium, there was a 2001 perched up on a big display. I would have been about 13 at the time, but I'll never forget that boat display and the show.

My favorite part of the show was the guy dressed in construction overalls who comes out and starts hammering on a roof during the show. The announcer asks him to grab that rope and he does a barefoot start after jumping from the roof of that building.

Anyone know what year it was when they ditched the Glastron for the Ski Nautique?

DrCC wrote: Did the display SN have a clear or transparent motor box ?

I think maybe it did...but I can' say that I remember for sure.