i was at my buddys shop lastnight and saw your boat, coming a long good. Its going to be a bad ass set up. i snapped a couple pic if you would like me to post them?

That would be great - thanks.

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You sent your boat to the right people for the job for sure. i walked in the shop lastnight and was like HOLY ST** WTF thats my dream boat lol i love the 38ZRC. I tryed to hook it to the truck and take it home but they stopped me lol. Its going to be nice ride. We are putting a pad on my boat after the 1st of the year , i guess when he's finished with you boat. DID you get them drives from Slug-ger( mike)?

Thank you so much for posting the pics. Hey, that's my dream boat too :)

Yes, I was fortunate to hook up with Mike. He was a great guy to deal with. And so is Jerry. He's rigged more Fountain race boats than you can throw a stick at. I think he's really excited to be working on something other than a Fountain race boat for a change.

I can't wait to see how it turns out.

Thanks again for the pics.

Yeah Jerry lives right down the road from me. Awesome guy to work with one of the nicest people i know and one of the only people who ill let touch my boat and mike all i can say... is :lolhit: :evilb:...cool guy im sure he hooked you up. Its good having friend around like that.

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You know looking at it lastnight i didn't know why it was side by side and not stagered before there is a hole lot of room under that motor hatch.

Yep,

This is how we are looking for it to fly when Jerry is finished, Courtesy of team P-26 - somewhere in Europe.

Good question. The following year they started staggering them all. It may have had something to do with the class rules they wanted those boats to race in at the time.

Tom will probably know.

THATS BAD A** maybe Jerry will let me come along on test day :drink:

Sweet, take some pics if you do go :)

That was in Sicily, Italy. It was a rough water race and another one they dominated!

Looks stable - and reliable :)

The first few ZRCs were built side by side based on the F2 factory class rules they raced in. Donzi always planned on building the staggered configuration after the initial run of F2 race boats. That is why the engine compartment is the way it is.

Hey Robert, we have more pics coming. Sorry for the slow start I was pushing a 42 triple out the door at the same time ramping up your project, lets talk soon about graphics and upholstery.A good friend Ryan is the person posting pics when i fiqure out how to send pics from an I phone to here we will [post daily.
Thanks a mill.

Jerry i think you will have to email the pics to yourself from your Iphone to your computer then save them on it and then attech to the thread. I dont think they have an app. like the one to post pics on F.B. that would be to easy:lolhit:

Some work in progress pics, along with some pics that I like :)

Various ZRC pics

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cool pics that some crazy air

Still trying to come up with a graphic for this thing. I like the all red boats but a red deck is just killer in the summer time. Anyone have any graphic ideas? Ridefast, is Morehead near the river. Do you guys get enough waves up there to even get any air :)

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well its not far from the river,but morehead is right on the coast so the ocean gets some OK waves:lolhit: yeah it gets big some time but my girl b**ches at me if i open the boat up at all:angry-smiley-038: but sometimes you got to do what you got to do :drink: but then i pay for it. lol

We've all been there and gotten "the look," or worse.

Stay Donzi old school, solid color! I love the all red with black accents.

Thanks, I am partial to the all the red boats. I even like the solid Red Ferrari boat.

Would it look dumb to have the sides mostly red and the top mostly white?

Nope. Mine is mostly silver on sides and mostly white on deck and it looks great IMO. Classic Donzi style. PM me your email address and I will send you some of the styles I was fooling with for mine.

Thanks Mike, pm sent.

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Jerry i think these guys could use your help i think there fighting themselves with setting up there ride but its a lot of reading:lolhit: Thats why you need to leave this stuff to the pros. http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...ber-101-a.html

I looked but I couldn't get past the first paragraph without thinking why complicate it but I quess that's why I'm not rich I'm not much for complicating things that are simple.

I would love to see a deep red or burgandy hull side and deck stripe with either a silver or black boot stripe and edge striping of the center deck stripe. Old school classic two tone that never looks dated. A Donzi version of the Cigarette Playboy.

Thanks Tom, I'll have to pass that idea on to Ryan to do a rendering.

Just back from a long trip to Kentucky. Sold the Fountain today, it's on the way to Penn. Now it's time to do the Donzi :)

Congrats on selling the Fountain! I know they always say it is the second best day of owning a boat but I always find it hard to part with..... even if you are moving to something better. I got a real emotional feeling this summer when I was on the Chesapeake and I met up with the owners of my former boat. It was really cool to see the Kryptonite, see how well it has been cared for and to raft up with it for the afternoon.

I love the look of the MTI Concept.

I was thinking something like inverting the red and black of the 009:
Center deck stripe, not offset.

I also love the G3 ZRC.

There is a reason why there are only a couple ZRC's with different colored decks / hull sides. It's tough to pull off because of the lines of the boat, especially in the back.

The G3 boat pulls it off with complimentary colors. There is another Silver boat that has a white deck and Donzi lettering in Red. You'll notice on that boat the painter pulls the silver way up high in the back well past the rub rail. The two different color scheme will almost always not fit quite right when looking at the back of the boat, especially the 3/4 rear view of the boat.

I had a 27 Checkmate that I sold to a couple on our Lake. We became great friends with them and I got to ride in it many times over the years until they sold it. That was great. I've never seen any of my other boats again.

Some before and after pics on cutting down the engine scoops - and a pic of Mike's boat from yesterday's Sarasota run.

Looks great Mike.

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That hatch and the scoops look way better cut lower, is jamie going to stagger them?....looking good

Mike's boat is the one I was talking about with the sides painted higher than the rub rail. Whoever painted it knows what they are doing for sure. That boat is a sex machine. :hitit:

Thanks. Did you see the pics from Pete B's thread? I cannot post pics otherwise I would. I think they really show how cool the old school Donzi paint scheme looks.

Yes I did, it looks great - did you go with the white deck for heat purposes? Did Nortech paint your boat?

I'll copy and paste them here later.

Here you go. Looks like it is set up well. Who designed the paint?

Nor-Tech designed the scheme and painted the boat. They also did the interior and changed the exhaust from tractor headers to thru-transom. The setup is exactly the same as it was when it raced. We ran 94.2 with a full fuel load, and I saw 98 when I first bought the boat, light on fuel, just me, and a different set of wheels that were not nearly as friendly planing off, etc. as the current set.

The best part is that we ran that number starting pretty far back in the pack of boats, meaning, through wakes and crud. No bobbles; pure freight train, and it does that in the rough too. The ZRC is truly amazing, and I swear, it feels like it can easily handle another 20 mph. You are going to be so happy when yours is finished.