Nelson Boatworks

This boat is also a full restoration. Everything has been restored back to the original condition. Great detail has been taken to document everything to be the same as it was the day it left the Chris Craft factory.

We will be water testing this boat in the next couple of weeks on Lake Minnetonka. Look for this boat at the Clayton, New York show this summer.

This boat has come to us partially restored by the former owner. We are in the process of fitting the engine surround pieces and then will be installing all new decks and interior.

This is a very rare boat, I only know of one other.. This boat is at the end of a full restoration, the hullsides are original, but that’s about it. I just got done installing the original canvas top and filling  it with a traditionl filling compound

We will have this boat done this summer.

We replaced the bottom on this boat, and with so many boats (the majority) there was extensive frame replacement. If any frames are questionable they get replaced. I’ve replaced the bottom back to how it was done originally except the canvas and white lead filler has been subsituded with 3m 5200.

The engine on this boat has also been cleaned up and detailed.

We are in the process of wrapping this restoration up, and look forward to seeing it on Lake Okoboji, IA this summer. There are a couple of interesting things we did with this boat, first was to replace the bottom. I have come up with an interesting alternative to bottom replacement which involves using the old bottom as a mold and “vacuum bagging” a new bottom over the old. When the new bottom is complete it is removed as one monolithic piece. The old bottom is then removed and the new one installed.

The other interesting thing we did on this boat was to replace the vinyl front deck with mahogany. Look close at the photos, there are no screws.