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The worst things on this ski are the graphics and the seats, of course I have the seats covered, see what I did there ? The graphics I think I have lined up , the pink part is faded out the rest looks ok , so I am just going to put decals over the decals , a lot of custom graphics you see are...

So a guy stopped by the other day and he has a POS Polaris sitting on a trailer with a bent tongue he wanted gone , of course you know what I said, I am your Huckleberry ! I went by and looked at it Monday and saw the tires were flat , it's a rust bomb and the tongue was bent badly , yesterday...

The first pic is where I left off at on the GTS , the second and third pics are an illustration of why I like gelcoat so much. What you are seeing on that small section below the sticker is about a minute of sanding with 600 grit and a minute of buffing with Meguiars , this is on the Blue GTX...

Blacktip or Ritco on Ebay is your best bet for seat covers, I sew up my own covers here unless I am in a really big hurry to get one ready. I have been really impressed with the quality of the Ritco products I have received so far , their wear rings are excellent as are their replacement lanyard...

This build is just so Sano man

So class is now in session, some of you are wondering what is going on here, how are you sanding all those scratches out Well the answer is quite simple , gelcoat is thick , the thickness is measured in Mils which in laymen's terms is thousandths of an inch , typical car paint jobs are from...

Thats what it looks like now and no it' isn't wet , it's waxed to hell and back, water won't stick to it anyway, I am not sure how well the camera picks it up but yeah , you get the general idea. I did about a three year stint at the Ski Nautique dealership repairing gelcoat and FRP , I know a...

pull them out and wire brush them off , anything that will get the carbon off , there are other methods but none that are nearly as fast.

About the only to get a decent ski nowadays is to build one.

Dolly review is here : https://www.x-h2o.com/threads/vevor-watercraft-dolly-review.209897/

Dolly was posted here : https://www.x-h2o.com/threads/watercraft-dolly.209848/#post-2149847 I copied the link ,it worked , I got $60.00 off and I bought one for $64.79 total shipped from Amazon , it arrived today , you won't receive a dolly per say, what you will receive is a giant erector...

Yep I refuse to sell junk, period , the carb and entire fuel system will get cleaned, new battery , new plugs, new jet pump wear ring and , oil , new recovered seats , new footwell mats and tuned to a T , I wouldn't have even bought this ski if it hadn't started right up with a good battery and...

I sanded it with 600 then 800 then buffed it and waxed it , total spent $000.00 , time spent 30 minutes. So we are at $500.00 and 1.5 hrs right now and half of the bottom is done , I don't count shop supplies as costs when rehabbing a ski , they are already on hand , when I run out I buy more ...

Yeah that would do it

I haven't contacted you because I didn't have anything in use that I thought would be useful for your testing purposes but after thinking for a bit maybe I do, I have an Aluminum cylinder off of a oiless air compressor that gets used regularly and I am thinking it might be the perfect candidate...

So far I am at an hour labor and no additional cost so ATM $500 plus one hour labor , I am not nearly crazy enough to think I will make my normal labor rate per hour working on this ski. In the end it really doesn't matter as I am doing something I actually like to do and it makes decent money...

So about an hour later half of the bottom is done , I just took twenty years of abuse off of the ski , this is why I like Seadoos especially white ones , keep in mind there are places where it is through the gelcoat and most likely they are probably not getting fixed , we will come back to that...

Then we flip it on it's side resting against the handlebar and at that point we are done , we just flipped a ski , kidding, I am kidding , but now you can see the damage to the bottom of the ski , I know what you are thinking , damn that looks rough but hang tight it's not as bad as it looks really.

All washed up and ready to come off the trailer for further inspection , but how do you do that you may ask , well that 's the easy part. A car ramp under the ski keeps the rear end up enough to just pull forward and it unloads itself right on the ground which is exactly where I want it.

I thought it would be fun to do a thread showing the process of rehabbing a sit down for resale , I will show the whole thing start to finish mistakes in all because that's how I roll. Comments are welcome, if you have no interest whatsoever there is no need to comment , it's like a TV if you...