Yes there is, the one you and I checked out that morning, and yes, it can be that simple. My drool is likely still pooled on the dock. Turn the key and go like he!!, any day, every day, all day long. Oil & filters, gas and TLC. God, am I starting to sound like RIP? (slap hand, me bad)

RELIABLE SPEED = $$$$$$$$ WELL SPENT !!!!!!!!!!!

First of all...WRONG. I personally ran the '06 brochure 382 600's, heat/air, generator, vaccuflush w/macerator,TV/DVD you know all that good stuff...

82.8 GPS with a damn near FULL LOAD OF FUEL and 3 adults.

second of all ...the 382 is not available staggered, never has been.

and finally, what's that stripped and staggered 38 Fountain wiegh? I'm guessing 2500lbs lighter than this "gentelman's" sport boat.

This is the boat I ran a good 8-10 miles, down Henderson Bay and back. This pic taken 20 mins before that run. Notice the early August morning flat water.

The "princess" can vouch.

Read the latest issue of Sportboat...boat was tested by Eric Colby. It ran 79mph with the new 600's on light fuel. That is S L O W...I did not say the boat was not nice because it is a very nicely designed boat but it's a pig. I ran a 2000 38 Formula as a pace boat with HP500efi's and it was hard to get it to hit 75mph.
The Fountain also has a frig, tv, sink, porcelin head, shower, TV, DVD and so forth. A 38 Cigarette is which is also much faster does not have these amenities.

Gotcha.

How many times has a mag test boat posted slow numbers?

too many times to count.

granted 3-4 MPH is not skewing this conversation, though in another context of comparison...
I'll have to ask the Mike that owns this (his second 38 and 4th Formula) how many Canadian hotties he's had in the cabin at the same time.

He mighta just got a stong one? It had ITS also, though it's reported not worth much on this boat for speed...

sink? shower hose? TV mentioned twice? Reaching for luxuries aren't you?

So how are you doin' Mike?

Gonna get another go-fast? Give up the CC?

#1 104 mph MV35

#2 Fountain 35'

#3 30' Eliminator 97 mph

#4 HBW...you

Your point?

Dave

We're up early today. Very well done.

#1 Correct..... This past summer, after breakfast at MV's, I was with you.

#2 Correct..... 35 Fountain Lightning, single step design, it's GPS verified best to date was 109.9.

#3 Correct...... I had forgotten that I had given you the chance to experience that. I was looking for 97-98 in a 32 Velocity. And yes, that was just before the Bravo exploded for the 7th and final time on the old Ragged Edge. The one that began it's life as a 77 mph boat and I repowered/rerigged into a damn near 100 mph ride.

#4 Correct...... Again, I had forgotten. I was looking for Me/Me (Ragged/Ragged)

Point is simple..... The high point of your performance boating experience was in a Fountain, the boat everyone loves to hate..... Followed by experiences made possible to you by Me, the little guy that gets trashed every time he opens his mouth and utters a bit of Fountain trivia, or makes a comparative analasis of something someone dosen't want to here. I've been around this game a long time, and have a lot of experiences tucked into this little head of mine.

You should go over to the Formula forum and complete this quiz over there as well, or use that computer wizzardry to move it over. Maybe Downtown, "Da Man", can do that for me, I'm too stupid to make that happen on my own.

straighten-up axa...

ye grande ole' self proclaimed Sage has spoken

LOL, nope just one of each! That's what happenes when I post late at night.

Thinking about it but that's about it for now....I think! I love my CC and it is easy boating and not much, practicually no maintanance. It's just that I do not fish at all anymore and never really fished a lot anyway. The CC is just very comfortable for Florida boating.
I did go to my Fountain dealer at tried to sit behind a 35EX...thinking of downsizing boat and cost...no way could I get my tall frame behind the helm. The 35 EX is a very very small boat and I was not impressed with it in a lot of ways.