8 barefoot nautiques for sale wow!!

Hey TRBenj

Read your g mail or call me at 802-380-2302. Leave your number if it goes to voice mail

If I know where these things are and I can get in touch with the owner, I'll take a ride tomorrow and take some pictures if the owner is going to be around.

I'm not exactly close but I'm not too far away either

Thanks
Keno

Tim

Great talking to you too.

Just got off the phone with Matt.

Time for a road trip. Heading out in the morning.

Anybody have any special requests? Just reply to this post.

They are shrink wrapped right now but I can get exterior shots and should be able to figure out years and get info on each and who knows maybe an interior shot depending on how tightly sealed these things are.

I know there's one with Tim's name on it.

Keno

    Barring anything unforseen,looks like I'm out on this one. Had a brief pow-wow with the "boss" about it,turns out she thinks a tropical Mexican vacation w/the kids will be a better use of the cash . I guess I should be happy she at least gave me the green light on the new garage next spring,so I'll leave it at that. (For now)

     Mike

I'd like to see a pic of the 'large parts inventory'.

I repaired an 88 or so this summer and both sides had stress cracks, from front to back and the owner had absolutely no clue that his stringers were rotted, he was a weekend warrior and he was wondering what the boat was worth and i think i mad him cry,
it was ashame, it was one of the worst CC's Ive seen and at least if someone has no clue on buying a boat this may help, a hammer in this case is the best tool when looking for a boat, tap anywhere you can and if its rotted you'll know

Well,I took a ride to Lake George today and for those that thought this was a bogus ad,I can say that you were wrong on that. There were 8 BFN's there all covered up with shrink wrap for the winter so the pictures don't show much,but I wrote a little about each one. Like TRBenj said earlier they were used by a parasailing outfit and for the most part they were well used. They are selling them to replace them with newer stuff. Now I've brought home some rough looking things before(boats that is) and I'd say that any of these have potential depending on what the prices are and how much work you want to do. No showpieces in this bunch.



Matt the owner couldn't meet me there but he said he would be joining the website and questions could be directed to him. He can tell the specifics about each boat. The numbers I listed are the number on the trailer that the boat was on. There were no numbers on some so I wrote a number on the shrink wrap. I'll be talking to Matt tonight about getting on the site

Edit   10 years later,      All picture links deleted as they no longer worked



#1 white hull,red stripe no lettering,no stress cracks. It doesn't have a prop on it. It does have the shaft,rudder and strut.

Probably no engine since I could look in the exhaust flappers and see light. It's on an Eagle trailer.







#2 white hull,blue stripe,might have been a really faded metalflake otherwise it's a really messed up blue. It has stress cracks, some repair marks.




#3 white hull,gray stripe. Really faded,has beat up decals. It does have a 4 bladed prop on it.




no #4 or 5



#6 This was the best looking of the bunch,it had a gray hull with a dark blue stripe(might have been black),no stress cracks




#7 White with a gray stripe 87 or an 88. Had no engine,trans,shaft,prop. The passenger side of the 2 piece windshield was missing,had a lot of stress cracks and more cracks at the rubrail about where you'd bang into a dock.




#8 White hull,painted blue stripe,no lettering.It had the curved 1 piece windshield. I'm guessing 85 or 86





#9 Gray hull, faded maroon stripe,no stress cracks and a little decal saying that it was made with AME 4000 resin. I bet that has something to do with the lack of stress cracks. My guess is that this was an 89.



#10 White hull with blue stripe,lots of stress cracks on sides below water line and on the bottom also

Whoever gets #2,7 or 10 will need to read "weeding the pumpkin patch" in detail! Of course you really don't know about the others ether since stress cracking isn't the only indicator of stringer issues.

Hey Greg, Maybe it is time to open up a fiberglass shop like you mentioned!!

Ken,
Anything on the parts inventory that's been mentioned?

Thanks KENO.....very interesting.

BTW: what's the white stuff on the ground?

john

Sorry KENO...just couldn't resist. I seen plenty of the white stuff living in Northeastern Ohio.

john

We definitely know the condition of the trailer tongues after those pics!

Thanks for doing the legwork Keno! Looks like a few were running rich.

Here is some More info

That sinking BFN is hard to look at.

...and a heckuva arguement for foam.

I can't imagine the amount of stress that years of towing a parasailers would cause. Seems to me it would also help with stringer separation over 20 years of towing that much weight at odd angles.

me and pete standing there.....ya think we shouldve foamed her?,
good example of what the foam is doing, keeps the keel up a touch so you can keep afloat until help gets there, But, probably the air caught inside the hull will keep it afloat.
there hasnt been a sunk boat worth keeping that Ive ever seen unless you wanted the bare hull, I had one over the summer that went down on the Ohio river, it was a Crownline, it was a muddy mess