81 Anniversary Nautique

[81nautique]

Well here's a couple of quick snapshots between rain drops today of my winter project.

New goodies include, all new interior, carpet, new fuel lines, electronic ignition conversion, wet sand and buff the entire boat, striped and repainted stripes, wet sanded and buffed stripes today in the rain, depth sounder, low oil presuure/ high water temp alarm and basic tune up, OJ dripless shaft seal

Still on the list is to install new bunk carpet and we plan to paint the trailer to match the blue of the new stripes. We'll get out next week rain or shine. See you at Green lake.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i283/81nautique/finish4.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i283/81nautique/finish3.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i283/81nautique/finish2.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i283/81nautique/finish1.jpg

[bkhallpass]

Wow Alan, really came out nice. Can't wait to go for a ride. BKH

[SNMike]

Absolutely gorgeous 81!! Great job! :grin:

[krs0394]

Awesome looking boat

[M3Fan]

It's a shame they only did that stripe pattern for 2 years. It is one of my all time favorites. Can't wait to see it in person.

[surroundsound64]

Awesome Alan! I'm glad to see you're finished! Wanna do my upholstery?

Loos great!

[81nautique]

Thanks for the compliments, we're pretty happy with the final results. The sun will come out here in Illinois someday and we'll get it in the water.

Surround, Believe me, if my next boat has a deluxe interior I'm gonna send it out to get done. I didn't keep track of the hours put into building all new wood and reskinning but that was the largest part of the job.

[surroundsound64]

All of my wood is in really good shape... the material is just getting old and the foam sometimes isn't as foamy as it should be. hehe.