Barefoot Nautique

if looking at one for 6000 the interior is in great shape, and trailer, but the engin needs eather a new head gasket or a rebuild, is this a good deal or should i see if he'll go lower

6000 is a ton of dough when you don't know what you're facing on the other side. Pull the heads off and find out, before you spend your money.

Jeff I have a 1982 Southwind in excellent shape for $6,900. It has the same hull as the Barefoot Nautique and mine also has the 454. See classifieds.

These are great boats. A new head gasket is not a huge problem and can easily done by yourself. If you need some advice for that, just email me at tvhoek@hotmail.com . The advice of Zedz is good. Pull a head of and see how the cilinder, pistons, valves and rings are. If these are good, you can change the headgaskets and run that thing for thousands hours.

$6.000 is not to much for a Barefoot (which year?) with a bad engine. If the engine is the only problem, buy it. And rebuilt the complete engine. Then you have a problem free boat with 350hp for years and under the 10K!

I've just rebuilt our 454 in our Barefoot. Took me 4 weekends (complete from taking the engine out till last weekend from test drive) and about $700,- . The major part of this money was due a electronic ignition (instead of points) and gaskets (all new gaskets). We checked every piston and bearings (no problems) and repaint the whole engine. No problem, even not if it's your first engine to rebuilt! These things are fairly easy to do.

You can contact me for advice! Try to get the boat cheaper but 6.000 is not to much. A Barefoot trows a good wake and weighted even a huge wake.

yea i saw your boat bruce, nice boat, but a little out of my price range. 6000 is about my limit

If the inside is nice you can't go wrong buying it, with that said you should always try to get them to go lower they are selling for a reason that means they need to you don't need to buy it so just have that attitude and you should do Ok that engine is the cheapist engine to work on with all the parts really easy to find. I bought a 80 ski nautique in 98 and did what tom did. I don't exactly recall what i spent but it was not to much. I really liked mine great wake, I did sell it for a new one in 00 but only cause i could not fiit many people in it. But when i sold it i got more than i payed the boat is basic always 4 to 6K as long as it runs and especially if the interior is good.

here is a pic of mine

Good luck