What's Happening at Silver Cove Marine?

[NautiqueJeff]

Today, our client's 1992 Sport Nautique got the Pro-Tec elimination kit installed, along with a brand new Quick Fuel carburetor, with the special flexible fuel line that this carb requires. This is going to be a sweet-running boat!

[NautiqueJeff]

Heading out with the trailer from our client's 1992 Sport Nautique. The next time we see this one, it'll be better-than-new!

[GMLIII]

NautiqueJeff So do you use a 3rd party to refirb your clients' trailers vs using Silver Cove Marine?

[NautiqueJeff]

Depends on how much work they need. This one is getting a complete refurbish. We are working with our partners at Ram-Lin on this one.

[SilentSeven]

^^^^ look at that snow!

[NautiqueJeff]

The 1978 Cuddy Nautique's new cabin headliner, side panels, cushions & lighting are complete! We'll add some blue accent pillows to tone down the white a bit, but we wanted it bright in there to give it a spacious appearance.

[NautiqueJeff]

Our client's 1992 Sport Nautique got a new rub rail today!

[NautiqueJeff]

The gelcoat restoration on our 2007 Super Air Nautique 210 is complete! It moves back to the assembly shop tomorrow for graphics installation. The original graphics for this boat are no longer available, so we're installing the 2011 - 2013 graphics on this boat. Those include Chromax, and should look really good! The only down side to this is that they are super expensive compared to the 2007 graphics! Hopefully the person who buys this one will appreciate the effort!

I think these will look REALLY good on a black boat.

[SilentSeven]

NautiqueJeff ...maybe one of these days you can do a dedicated thread on how your team polishes out the gelcoat on the hulls. They always look so good.

Also interesting would be sort of a longer term perspective on how well one of these recovered hulls maintains it's shine over time.

My guess is that there would be quite of few people interested in what you folks have learned.

[NautiqueJeff]

I know I keep posting pictures of this one, but I am pretty happy with how it turned out. It had some pretty serious chips, and was quite faded and oxidized.

It is back in the assembly shop ready for work to begin.

[NautiqueJeff]

New graphics go onto our 2007 Super Air Nautique 210 on Tuesday.

[NautiqueJeff]

This dash was sent in from a client in Wisconsin. Of course his digital gauges were trashed, but he decided he also wanted to eliminate his old air/water temperature gauge and depth finder, and replace them with the latest air/water temp and depth finder in one gauge, and add an hour meter to the other hole. We sourced the two additional gauges from the same manufacturer that we use for the standard gauges, so they all match. We moved those two new gauges to the bottom, so that all of the normal gauges (fuel, temp, oil pressure, voltage) could be on top. That cleaned up the look, and made for a good-looking installation.

[NautiqueJeff]

Today, we removed the existing decals on our 1997 Ski Nautique. The gelcoat on this boat didn't look too bad until we started pulling decals. Now it really shows how much better it is going to look once wet sanded and polished!

[NautiqueJeff]

Our red, white & blue 2005 Ski Nautique 196 restoration is officially underway!

Starting point:


We pulled the decals and pinstripes today. It is ready for gelcoat work!

[Interjon]

That's a great looking boat. Customer resto or for sale?