Headroom in 47 Lightning
 

Wife says the next boat she has to be able to stand up in (5'8").

What is the head room around the galley area. I have been all over Fountains site
and to no avail.

Otherwise I have to start looking at cruisers.

Thanks

I was told by a Fountain dealer that the headroom is 6'3" and it goes down to 6' 0" at the end of the sofa.

maybe in a 47 sport cruiser but not in a 47 lightning, id quess headroom at 5 1/2

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why does she need to be able to stand up??????

only in the SC. i have owned 2 and love the room.

In a 47 lightning I can stand straight up in the galley area in front of the bathroom without my head touching and having a couple of inches to spare. I am 5ft 8in tall. I would estimate that at the front of the lounge area you have about 5ft3in to stand in. Unless your wife is 5-10 to 6ft you will be fine.


RAF

i have been in many 47 lightning and never felt they were that tall but then again i am 6'3''

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I'm 5'11" and there is no way I could stand straight up anywhere in the cabin of any of the 47 lightning models I looked at. That's the primary reason I bought a 47 Sport Cruiser. I get claustrophobic not being able to stand up.

I am 5'8" and I cannot stand up anywhere below in a Fountain 47 Lightning post 2000 model year. The headroom outside the head door is 5'6". The headroom inside the head is less, but I don't remember how much less.

Oddly enough, if the hatches were not "flush" and the headliner was installed so it followed the deck, instead of going straight across, then the headroom is 5'10".

I made several requests to the factory to change how they do the headliner in order to get standing headroom below, and they have refused.

Therefore, I do not own a 47 Fountain Lightning.

Thanks for all the response.
I may have to look at SC.

I like the looks of the lightning better.

No question the lightning looks better, but the trade off in cabin height to me is well worth it (especially if your wife says this is important). The other problem is that you'll have to buy used and find a good one if you want to trailer it because they discontinued the model when they introduced the 48 Express Cruiser which has a 12' beam and cannot be trailered without an escort, following vehicle, and semi with flashing lights on weekdays only.

I need to trailer. Anything over 8.5 feet is really a pain. I remain hopeful that someday Fountain will tweak the 47 Lightning interior just a bit so I can stand up.

Take a look a Black Thunders. They are very sporty and have plenty of head room in the cabins.

Black Thunders are great on the trailer or at the dock. They have great headroom in the cabin.

headroom
 

Fountain makes a nice boat but if you need speed and room in a reasonablly priced go boat the 38 Powerquest has lots of space and is still just 8.5' wide. Cabin headroom is 5'8" and the v berth is 6' 8" long. Not as fast as the Fountain but has a great ride and very comfortable.

Headroom in the 2007 47 Fountain is 5"7"

I think they should reintroduce the 47 sport cruiser. It trailers the same as a lightning, rides extremely smooth and dry, and has a cabin like a real cabin cruiser. It is the best of all worlds! The 48 is a great boat but useless if you want to trailer.

I just posted a beautiful 1996 47 SC in the classifieds. Check it out. Nicest one out there.

hey brett did you mean to put 4ft 8 inches come on tell the truth lol!!!!!!!!!!how about listing my boat so i can by yours !!!!!!!!!!!

I sent you a pm

I wonder if Fountain could be any less helpful. I have called the Fountain factory several times over the last year or so and the only one who was ever helpful with any of the simple questions was Chris Dan who left the company recently. I never seem to be able to get anyone other than Audix and after multiple attemps, usually get some disinterested "customer service" employee who seems annoyed no matter how simple or diplomatic the question. The only ones I've ever met or spoken with that are helpful or interested are Reggie and Wyatt. Why don't they get rid of these idiots who are compromising their business and replace them with people who can at least seem interested in their customers.

Did you tape that? I taped the 2004 I was in at 5'6". It did seem it would be very easy to increase the headroom by changing the headliner, but they are not interested in doing so.

Someone who is clearly clueless about structure, but claimed a title like "production structural engineer," said they needed the longitudinal plywood that suspends the headliner on centerline for deck structural reasons. I don't give lectures on structural engineering on the telephone, so I left it at that.

Maybe they reduced the size of that centerline plywood to get another inch. Still annoying to have a piece of wood behind the headliner, right where one's head hits the ceiling.

Paaa...lease!!!

From the latest picture of a 47 interior at the Lake Cumberland site it does look like the headliner is pulled up a bit more down centerline now. Would be interested in running a tape measure on a really new one now, but there is no longer a dealer in California.

I did not tape it.

I am able to stand in the galley area with a slight lean of my head. I am 6' 1". It is not bad at all for 105 mph.
My wife is 5' 7" and she can stand up.

I thought I was 5'11" but I guess I'm a lot taller. That's great!!!