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If you prefer to rent vs own, yeah stick with Camaro. Great performance but I got tired of constantly replacing them.

@jhughes seems like I recall ‘06? I remember going by there in the 80’s and early 90’s with dad, especially Saturday mornings, and just basically walk in and see the guys and the boats as we pleased. Boy times have changed. I think they still own the 2 story which held the office operations but it’s all leased out to other businesses now. Gary still has the dealership which was SECC but who knows what’s going on with it now, sad at the least. Jeff and Mark are going to break ground on a new Nautique dealership any day and that’s been a 3 year process, 3 steps forward, 2 steps backward, that I’ve been directly involved with. Times are progressing and frankly I think it sucks, take me back to 1990.

Ben Favret has a place in Leeville, LA, hope it doesn’t get much damage. In that area the wind is only half the concern, Flooding is the other half.

Wtf is trashed about that hub? Certainly can’t tell anything from the picture other than bearings, races and seals. Follow jhughes’s advice.

@MDB1056 just kidding, no sense in ruining a perfectly good dog house.

I just bought a new dog house for the family mutt. I sea dek’d the whole thing.

These threads kill me. Same guys buying $100k+ all of a sudden their wallets clam up when it’s time to pull into the gas pump! Longevity and reliability, SOHC V8! The 6.0 GM gasser was the most diehard engine this century. It didn’t do anything great but zero maintenance for a half million miles. My weekend truck is a 18 or 19 Tundra. Hands down, best performing and riding truck I’ve ever driven. Don’t know why there’s no love for a Tundra. If I were in the market for a full-size SUV..... Sequoia without a doubt.

That’s the Fugly Nautique, also known as an 89-92 Sport Nautique. Being a fan of old school small and nimble ski boats. The 176 has been on my bucket list for years.

Did I miss a heads up announcement for this?

Carpet right on top of foam! Oh god that nauseated me almost as much as sea dek. What a water logged nightmare! Yes the glass underneath the carpet will need much much prep work to make sea dek look like you imagine it will. I can’t imagine sea dek dealers do t have the patterns for a 200. Surely <$1400 will cover cost of new carpet installed.

Definitely not hardcore skiers. I don’t think there’s too much fishy going on there since that’s Gary Meloon’s shop. What I find fishy is spending $45k on a boat in ‘08 and selling it now for 27k wo a trailer. But my views on boat values must be out of this world compared to other skiers.

Wow, terrible. 37 and a 4 year old son.... I’m at a loss of words.

Any boat with sea dek is an epic failure.

@Bruce_Butterfield of course they’re old, they’re slalom skiers.

@ALPJr no 68’s yet

Does a picture exist of a Lapoint without the turbo active masking tape with super secret numbers?

Reman 351 LH are a dime a dozen. Quality Reman LH are a dime and a nickel a dozen. But now we have a national coin shortage so I don’t know what that really relates too. Hours are frankly irrelevant, age and maintenance means way more. No true “new” GT40’s out there unless a hoarder like that Orlando guy has one ?.

You guys kill me. Y’all carry on how the TSC is greatest ski boat ever (which it mostly is/was). Talk about how awesome it’d be to have a clean one, yadayadayada. Yet here’s a clean specimen on a newer dual axle Boatmate (~$6k) and you guys crack jokes about how over priced it is! Somehow this boat at $16k during a sellers market is too much but if you put a USED ZO motor in it, supposedly y’all think it’s worth $30k!!? C’mon!! Problem with 1998 Ski Nautiques, 98% of them are green.

What transmission? Carb or EFI? Elevation? 13x13 CNC prop on a 1:1 is typically a lot of prop to pull, motor needs to have major cojones to pull it. If its a reduction gear, you’re all sorts of wrong.

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I hate seeing crap like this, no reason for it. No respect for electricity. Just a reminder, there is a BIG and DEADLY difference between a GFIC outlet and a GFIC protected circuit. A GFIC outlet is almost useless around water, only protecting you downstream from the receptacle. A GFIC outlet serves zero protection ahead of the receptacle where a fault is most likely to occur. GFIC protected circuit protects the whole entire wire.

I’m on the fence with ethanol. I hadn’t run any E-free in my Ski Nautiques in about 6 years.... knock on wood, no problems. In my Honda outboard I seem to run e free one year, ethanol the next. I hadn’t really noticed a difference in it, carb’s need gone through every 366 days no matter what. You aren’t running high enough compression for anything other than 87 oct. And to summarize myself on about the 3rd comment on this thread about a month ago... most guys will disagree with me but don’t bother rebuilding carb’s. Spend the $700 or so, buy a brand new one calibrated for a Ford, bolt it on and ski within the hour. The money spent upfront will save money, time, and aggravation later. Season is too short, Go Ski!!!

@Bill22 as of now there won’t be a 65” nor was there ever an intention of one. Im speculating 68” won’t be ready for 6 weeks or so. Molds not ready yet.

Start with me. Dumbest crap ever. Placard.