The Donor Ski

Once we had decided to build this particular boat we had to find a donor JetSki. An ad in a newspaper brought a response and we purchased the ski. It’s a 1991/92 Kawasaki JS 650SX JetSki. The engine needed some minor carby work and a good clean up. The hull was a mess and was only good for cutting up.

Here is the ski as it came home:

The engine came out pretty easily and after a clean up looked like this :

After considerable work with a 100mm angle grinder with a diamond blade this is what was left:

Some more cutting to get to the bit we really needed:

This is basically the section that we needed. It has the intake tunnel and the mounting points for the pump in it. I wanted to use as little of the JetSki as possible. This is why we cut off the hull at the bulkhead. Removing the foam was the worst part (took ages).

Further work (some weeks later) left us with this section: