Offshoreonly.com - 47 Fountain any info????

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Originally Posted by Perlmudder (Post 4125190)

The American flag 47 is a proven performer and has been run on lake Erie for years. It hauls

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Originally Posted by cig92 (Post 4125357)

the dirty o7 boat at a minimum needs both six's rebuilt and both top ends rebuilt. there's about 20k to add to the purchase price. food for thought. btw, the flag boat runs 120 mph, i've been friends with him for a long time. it is maintained with an open check book to say the least. he adds c16 to the mix just for the hell of it lol. the engine builder is jimmy z, one of the best i have ever come across. he maintains the motors, could easily build them if he wanted but they have been sent back to sterling for the fresh internals. the boat just received 20k in props, like i said money wasn't the object here. if someone was interested i think you could just about name your price. he doesn't drive the boat anymore, he likes his 165 mph skater a bit more lol.

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Originally Posted by notda1 (Post 4783239)

Went to look at it for sale in FL , owner said he took it in a trade . Mechanic found problems with one of the stringers and the entire transom . Both drives had water in them and the trailer was the wrong size . Didn’t bother with continuing to the motors after seeing the condition of the rest of the boat . Seller offered to put new seals in the prop shafts . And the gennys gone too . I explained they should come apart made an offer then left .

notda1 Probably because the boat was turned into a homemade arts and crafts project when it went down to Florida to its new home. That’s just my guess after gathering it all together. Like cig92 said when it was up in NY it was meticulously maintained locally by Jimmy Z and yearly by Mike D’Anniballe from Sterling Performance. The boat sat in a lift when it wasn’t running then stored in a private garage for the winter. When it went down to Florida it sat in the water from what I saw on the old listing around fall 2019 I believe. When hurricane Irma hit Florida in 2017, I heard that the boat was left in the water and was on the bottom of the canal when the water levels went down (not sunk). I’m sure that the 20,000 pounds of boat with majority of the weight in the back of the boat sitting on the bottom of the canal did a job on those 6s and the transom. I honestly bet the bilge too. The motors are listed on here by Randy from Cobra Power and you can see the rust on certain parts of the motors. I have a strong feeling there’s plenty more to the story on that boat after it went to Florida and I’m sure from what you saw you could agree. I don’t remember seeing any when Kurt owned it. I wish I could follow up on the boat and hear where it ended up going since it used to be a monster up here in NY. Hopefully I get the opportunity to bring it back up here one day. Here’s the photos that I found of it down in Florida and Cobra Power below. As you can see the boats all taken apart in the driveway with no drives and you can see the motors :/. Do you know anything else on the boat?

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