Whats going on at Fountain?
12-20-2009 | 06:09 AM
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They are still useing the same molds as 04 on the 42 and has tweeked over the years since 04 , every boat that comes off the line gets tweeked after watertesting to squeeze everything Reggie expects out of them. so if you get technical no two boats are alike!
12-20-2009 | 09:26 AM
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That has to cost some money, I wonder if they will continue to.
12-20-2009 | 11:03 AM
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Question ?
Does that mean that they fire up your new engines and run them like h_ll?
Meanwhile, when you buy the boat you're trying to do the right thing by breaking the engines in carefully???
You see the performance reports at boat shows and anywhere they are being sold but the engines never have 10 or 20 hours if unit is new.
How does this work?
12-28-2009 | 12:54 PM
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12-28-2009 | 01:33 PM
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If every boat is water tested and "maxed out" to get every possible highest speed etc.....
Does that mean that they fire up your new engines and run them like h_ll?
Meanwhile, when you buy the boat you're trying to do the right thing by breaking the engines in carefully???
You see the performance reports at boat shows and anywhere they are being sold but the engines never have 10 or 20 hours if unit is new.
How does this work?
Does that mean that they fire up your new engines and run them like h_ll?
Meanwhile, when you buy the boat you're trying to do the right thing by breaking the engines in carefully???
You see the performance reports at boat shows and anywhere they are being sold but the engines never have 10 or 20 hours if unit is new.
How does this work?
12-28-2009 | 02:56 PM
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For some years now, and I can't put the exact date on this, the 42 EX has shared the Lightning bottom design. Both hulls out of the same mold, then fitted with the EX or Lightning top deck. Interiors and cockpits have followed along the lines of the top deck design. On the 35's the deal has been different. The EX has remained the single step hull with the traditional top deck while the Lightning has always been, since introduced, the twin step bottom design with the newer style top deck.
If you follow, or dig into, what Fountain has actually been doing over the past number of years then it does begin to explain why some models appear to be going away in light of what the boating industry is now going thru. Concentrate on your best, and best selling, offerings in an attempt to then become profitable in what will for sure be a different market from here on.
If you follow, or dig into, what Fountain has actually been doing over the past number of years then it does begin to explain why some models appear to be going away in light of what the boating industry is now going thru. Concentrate on your best, and best selling, offerings in an attempt to then become profitable in what will for sure be a different market from here on.
12-28-2009 | 05:02 PM
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remember every boat is Bluprinted after the first water test no 2 are alike exactly so when it gets down to MPH 1-5 is a normal variable depending on wind speed and chop the 35 lightning ICBM hull number 1
at water testing I was only able to get it over 100 mph 2 times 96 was the average on GPS still a fast ride!
at water testing I was only able to get it over 100 mph 2 times 96 was the average on GPS still a fast ride!
12-29-2009 | 05:37 PM
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One of life's little puzzlements I guess. Change in lay-up? Props run for testing? Lots of variables can play into this.
Much like all the talk about Fountains not being to run the number that shows on the "Reggie Report". Some say they have never seen it, some say maybe once in perfect conditions, mine consistently hits it with the props it left the factory with, and will beat it by a few any day with the props I've had done for it.
