Originally Posted by 100-Plus (Post 2230997)

Let's not confuse facts with assertions and implications. Yes, Fountain has the existing kilo and yes, Fountains have won a ton of races.

But that doesn't mean Outerlimits went to race in Europe because anyone there was somehow "afraid" of Fountain. If I recall, earlier this season:

1. Fountain beat Outerlimits (and others) in a race
2. Outerlimits beat Fountain (and others) in a race

In my neck of the woods, we call that a push.

Fountain's racing success also doesn't mean that Donzi, Cigarette and others bailed on racing because they were afraid of racing.

Maybe they thought offshore racing was a waste of their marketing money. Maybe they thought they could reach a much wider audience by taking their boats to poker runs.

No bash of Fountain or anyone else here, but the only facts in that ad concerned Fountain's achievements and that Cigarette had big engines and didn't break Fountain's kilo record. That's factual.

Originally Posted by chief fever (Post 2231317)

All I know is I love my Fountain how many guy's go 100+ mph in a single engined 29' i challenge anyone in a V Bottom,just wait till The Man aka Reg. break's 200mph in a V IT WILL BE SOON!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by T2x (Post 2229042)

There's an old marketing and political adage that reads: Never criticise your competitors because it only belittles you in the long run.

This so-called ad is simply a badly worded rant at every other performance builder.

Reggie is Reggie and, contrary to Apache Pete's assumption, he ain't that cool, and he does exhibit self esteem and ego issues.

His boats are no faster than a number of others, but they are generally smaller for a given length. His record speed was indeed a perfect example of weight to horsepower overcoming speed limitations. Yes he got away with running faster than Johnny, but in all honesty no vee bottom has any business running at those speeds in the first place.

At the end of the day the speed and dangers that they faced in their old open cockpit outboard tunnel boat racing days far exceed the oxygen equipped, safety cockpitted, 5 point harnessed, speed run that he and Ben experienced in the big Vee, and were far more impressive (deck to deck at 130+ in a 250 lb hull). However, Reggie learned long ago that those exploits are Greek to his legion of basically uninformed Offshore fans so he occasionally dons a helmet and jacket and plays 21st century Barnum to his target audience.

As long as no one gets hurt I guess there is no harm in this, but it is getting awfully tiresome having to listen to the chorus of cheers surrounding what is, at best, overblown self agrandizement and, at worst, a waste of shareholders' investment dollars.

T2x

Originally Posted by Sea-Dated (Post 2230288)

Here it is so you don't get a know in your neck.