Old thread but wow, Reggie really did steal the Excalibur hull. :pacifier:

This is an excerpt of an early 90s Fountain press release:

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...untain%202.jpg

Not many chances for Excalibur discussions. The 27's and 31's run pretty good if you follow Reggie's path. I simply raised the X on mine and running Bravo with IMCO lower. At 2" below bottom the boat looks like it is going to run 80 mph with 500-525 HP (78 out of the box). That is pretty solid for a boat built 36 years ago!

Thats pretty good considering it takes 1400HP to go 80MPH in the 40 Excalibur Hawk!

Very cool. At least he was open about it. The Executioner does very much resemble the Excalibur however.

The original Executioners were 65 mph boats with twin 454s. Still, they had a huge impact on high performance boating.

It would have been fun to have raised the X on that boat some more. It was still pretty deep for a notched transom and 5 blades. I think it was 4" below. It was an 18" X with neutral boxes and standard length IMCO's.

Reggie set up a number of boats FOR Excalibur in the beginning. A friend had one that came from Excalibur (and Reggie) with SM #3a's and twin turbo BBC's. They ran low 80's, which I would imagine was probably the fastest factory 31-32' boat you could buy back then. By the time my buddy got his, the turbos were done and he restored the boat with a white aluminum windscreen replacing the windshield, and Weiand 177 super chargers, basically mimicking Merc 525's, and it ran low 80's. Looked just like the first excutioners, which were plentiful on the Chesapeake bay at the time, except without the beak, and a simpler/lighter interior and cabin - and it looks better than the fountain IMHO. Reggies success with doing these hulls FOR Excalibur is basically what gave him the idea and or confidence to start Fountain powerboats, using the modified version of Excaliburs hull, with permission as I understood it back then. It was nothing like the classic "splash someone else's hull" or "buy the leftover molds", that occurred throughout the 70's and 80's.

PS - that friend has been trying to buy back the boat for the last few years, since it is just sitting in storage.

Nice ad Olli !! Still had the Excalibur name on the boat - but no mention of that co. in the ad.