1977 fish nautique restore
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Topic: 1977 fish nautique restore
Posted By: miniorf
Subject: 1977 fish nautique restore
Date Posted: December-01-2010 at 2:57am
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Yes another 23 fish Nautique restore. I have just purchased her only 10 miles from my house and easily trailered her home to my house on Cape Cod! Couldn't believe it when I saw it on craigslist. It is an adopted project boat. Seemed like it passed though a few owners attempting to bring her back to life. This always raises a few questions... What were the stringers replaced with. Why stop at the bow terrace? Why fill all the rod holders? some of the layups look alil dry. Did you know what you were doing? ect. ect.
It is huge to not having to chunk out all that foam, or at least looked like it in jzarski really nice thread! http://www.correctcraftfan.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19112&PN=1&title=23-fish-nautique-restoration-project - http://www.correctcraftfan.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19112&PN=1&title=23-fish-nautique-restoration-project Seeing that we are at a similar point I struggle with a few of the same questions. First most where to put the fuel tanks. Im not keen on the above deck stern tank. THose of you with the barefoot nautique where did they put fuel? I am ver tempted to replace the bait well just in front of the console with a nice big tank. If you fill the bait well with with water it would be about the same weight as fuel....Id love to do saddles but think the will be expensive having them custom built. I also run into the issue with the secondary stringer as passionately discussed in jzarski thread. Looks like the deck was almost free of horizontal braces, just supported by expandable foam. Anything wrong with repeating this process...? Im sure more questions to come. Please bear with my spelling at times... Got that one right.  Any input towards my project is greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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Posted By: TRBenj
Date Posted: December-01-2010 at 11:35am
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Nice looking project there- welcome to CCF. I had a buddy who was interested in that boat but he dragged his feet... I told him it wouldnt last long!
The fuel tanks on the BFN's were above the floor as well, under the deck. 
Most of your pictures arent showing up for me... not sure if the link is wrong or maybe theyre just blocked on my end? Photobucket comes through just fine. ------------- |
Posted By: miniorf
Date Posted: December-01-2010 at 12:07pm
| Thanks TRBenj, always great seeing pictures of other setups! This boat will be used off shore. I just worry about stability, putting all that weight above floor makes me uneasy. However they did survived for 10+ years that way from the factory like that. I changing my picture hosting to be though photobucket, hopefully that fixed things. Thanks for the heads up. |
Posted By: jzarski
Date Posted: December-01-2010 at 1:13pm
| This is great!!!! I am glad my photos helped you, I will keep them coming. About the front area.... Do yourself a big favor and tear it up. Mine was rotten from front to back. There was nothing left. The reason it is not soft is because the whole thing is foam filled. I bet all the wood is rotten. If you have any questions just shoot me an email and no problem with the hatches, when you are ready. |