Projects

1986 Correct Craft “Silver Nautique” 25th Anniversary model

• New floor & stringers
• New carpet & interior.
• New Teleflex “Sterling” gauges.

1986 Correct Craft Ski Nautique 2001

This boat was family owned for years and sold to son. He commissioned OBW for the complete restoration which included:

• New upholstery- lightly custom, looks stock original from 20′, but wait till you sit down inside. Big difference + new tan carpet instead of red.
• All gelcoat was color sanded, buffed and waxed before new graphics were applied.
• Trailer, sand blasted, welded new step supports, primed, painted & LED lighting.
• Clarion, Polk Audio sound system along with tower speakers and Skylon Wake tower.

1979 Mastercraft, Stars & Stripes Edition

Features:

• Original Ford PCM 351W engine & transmission.
• New floor & stringers
• New carpet & upholstery.
• Trailer sand blasted, primed & painted too match. ABS plastic fenders were in bad condition, missing much of the plastic. We replaced with steel fenders and 3/4″ decking carpeted too match boat interior.
• All metal flake was clear coated with Interlux Marine Finish & new graphics applied by Scott at Brilliant Color Works.

This boat was a house project and sold to new owner in North Dakota

1979 Correct Craft Ski Nautique

Very interesting history on this boat.  It sat for years as part of an estate. With drain plug in, battery charger connected and cover on, only 117 hours on then engine, the owner had passed away. Over time the cover fell apart and the boat filled up with water, charger running and battery under water. Eventually the distributor melted into the engine, seat cushions started to float.  Eventually it was sold to a new owner who began buying parts to repair it.

Now the story comes full circle. Many years later this boat shows up for sale on Craigslist and was purchased by us to rebuild.  While  unpacking it, we found many new parts, still in boxes, with the original receipts, handwritten by us at OBW. We removed the rebuilt engine, rebuilt the stringers correctly, rebuilt the transmission a new floor and carpet.  All of the original upholstery had been stored inside for many years and was in extremely good condition.

 1967 Correct Craft, American Skier

Yes, an “American Skier” just like the boat brand of the same name, which came out in the 75 till 2002.
This boat is really just a stripped down Mustang model, plastic windshield vs. glass and built from early 60’s till late 70’s.
My family’s first inboard was a 1964 CC American Skier with the Buick V-6/ 130HP and drove on the left side(port). Also had the foot throttle and shifter on the dash, much like some of the Century boats. Interesting part of this little red Skier is it was bought new by a friend of my Dad’s and sold to current owners grandfather in early 70’s, who was also a skiing buddy of Dad’s. As I began to remove the deck hardware I suddenly realized the rope clearance bar on the rear deck had been made by Dad. As I thought about this, I remembered removing the windshield wing vents years back. When I removed them from my box of parts I knew right away that these too had been build by Dad. I remember the vent parts as our 67 Mustang was missing the vents and Dad made Plexiglas units with aluminum brackets that would never fall off the boat.  When this boat came in I was hesitant to even think about a rebuild, as the boat had extensive gel-coat cracks, hull blisters, rot, engine issues, and had faded to a nice pink color. Not counting the trailer was supported with land scape timbers and ratchet straps. Now this 67 has all new framing, floors, carpet, upholstery, rebuilt 289 Ford motor and a trailer that rolls.