Newby looking for information

Frank,

Welcome aboard. Did you just get your Wildcat or have you had it a while? Posting to diaries shouldnt be a problem, I joined about a year ago and posted to diaries and recall it being pretty straight forward. Try again. Keith is generally pretty responsive, so maybe he's out of town or something.

Can't tell you much about your 66 Wildcat. I grew up with a 65 Mustang, smaller but pretty much same engineering. That boat is long gone. I have had another (Brand X) ski boat for a number of years but last year bought a 75 Ski Tique, which I really enjoy. Look closely at the reference section, you can learn some there. Post specific questions in this forum and you will get answers. There are a lot of very knowledgable people. Other good sources are New England Correct Craft (in NH) and White Lake Marine (in NC). They've been at it for years. Just Google those names and you will find them.

There is no better power train than a direct drive inboard. Wake boarders are gravitating to v-drives for a bigger wake (after the ski boat industry spent billions of dollars and years perfecting no wakes, the industry is now emphasizing big boarding wakes...amusing)But the purists still appreciate the absence of wakes in a good ski boat.

Again, welcome aboard. Hope you enjoy your CC experience.

Welcome aboard, Frank! I'm proud to say I'm an owner of a '66' Wildcat. Have had mine for about 3 years now, and have loved every minute! There aren't very many around, from what i've found, and Ralph liked to put some wild powerplants in them. I put some sell sheets in the reference section, under the 66 brochure. I saw the boat on ebay, nice color, same as mine! Hope you enjoy the site, and good luck.

Frank;
     Send me an e-mail with your address, and I'll send you copies from the original.
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Wallace, I tried to send my email. If you don't see it soon it bounced again.

75 Tique, I agree with you. Old boats (like old cars) had style that gave them character. That seems to be missing from new boats and new cars. Don't get me wrong, if you wanted to give me a new Nautique I'd be all over it, but the 66 stays too. Hammer Marine is the closest Ski Nautique dealer to me. Has a showroom packed with new swoopy, powerful, padded, awesome boats. Tucked in the middle is the owners 67 Barracuda. Very neat boat. The salesperson said it gets more oohs and aahs than the new boats from almost everybody.