Updated: Aug 26, 2025
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CHRONOLOGICAL PROGRESS ON THIS VESSEL.
This poor 1997 Ski Nautique was caught in a flood at one of our local lakes, and was forced up into the roof of its boat house. The windshield and dash were damaged, and will need extensive repairs. The boat also needs some maintenance items completed. We'll make it beautiful again for its owner!
A client brought in his 1986 Ski Nautique 2001 for a bit of restoration work. This is already a good-looking boat, and we'll make it even better.
He asked us to fix an issue with it not idling properly, replace the blower and blower hoses, and take care of a couple of other little issues. As we worked, we found additional work that was needed, and that is all outlined below.
This isn't really a restoration, but this is a fairly unusual boat. The owner of this 2002 Air Nautique 196 (basically a Ski Nautique Open Bow with a tower and Air graphics) contacted us because his propeller shaft had snapped and dropped his propeller into the lake. We'll install a new shaft and prop, along with a new dripless packing gland.
Here's the starting point.
