The Unveiling of a New 38
 

This is a friends new 38. He is hadahavit on OSO but hasnt posted for a while.

Still shrink wrapped getting the trailer fitted to it.

Sportmaster Bravo XR

Anticipation

Cant wait... got to take a peek!!!

Other side

Finally inside!

The best part.. Staggered 525's

Can you say Happy Camper! New owner and Fountain Dealer on left. Best friend and business partner on right.

Another pic of the drives and the 380 K-planes mounted flat.

Dash

Deck with the new half height windshield

Interior

Front of engines

Pulling out.

Headed to the river for the maiden voyage.

Almost forgot. The other new owner.

The test sheet said 89.5 MPH at 5300 rpm with 32" Bravo's spinning in. The drives are 1.5's. The speedo is GPS and when I hit the recall the needle jumped perfectly between 89 and 90.

Ron

Great looking boat! Thanks for posting the pic's.
Dan

Its an '04.

Ron

Ron,

Thanks for the pics, your friend has a great boat, I love starting monday looking at a pretty boat:D

As for the grafx, those are the Stealth grafx, Fountain has offered them at least since 1998, but not allot of them. I have the same package on my 2001 but in purple, yellow and lipstick, same as my Avatar.

90mph in a 38 with stock nonblown power is AWSOME.

WILL:p

How much closer are the drives with the staggered engine setup vs. the normal engine setup?

Beautiful Boat
 

Still debating if I should build up my stock 35 singe-step or go with a new 38. Any idea what the damage is for that 38 with 525's on a trailer?

That is a beautiful boat. I am in love.

He just sent me this one.

Got to climb around in this boat Sat and it's awsome. As beautiful as it is that doesn't hold a candle to the way it sounds. Sounded noticably different from the 500 efi boats. I could't stop grinning for 15 minutes after he fired it up.:D

Great shots...Nice boat!
I could almost smell the resin.:cool:

Ron,
I got a kick out of this post. Can you imagine hadahavit with a dirty bilge.:D

Mike,

Trust me, in five years that bilge will look just like it does now. This guy keeps his boats SPOTLESS.

Yes folks this guy is about as meticulis as they come. He just sold his last boat a '95 35 Lightning with 500 hours and it looked brand new. In fact he took it to a boat show this spring and listed it for sale and everyone thought it was new. I dont think he has ever used soap to wash the boat! He washes it as soon as it comes out of the water every time.

About the trim caps. I bought the turbosonics for my three pumps and every one still leaks. I followed the directions that came with them to a tee. Now I just keep a can of brake cleaner and a roll of paper towels on board and clean the oil up after every run.

Ron

Ron,

Nice pics, thanks for posting them. Was his old boat the 35' Too Old was posting? My trim reservoirs leak too but not from the caps. It's a real pain keeping the bilge clean. I think the plastic to metal fit is the culprit. You can rotate the tanks relative to the pump bodies. When you get bounced around, the oil leaks down the outsides of the hoses and drips right near the inside if the transom.

Thanks,

Mark

No. He sold it locally.

Great looking boat, I like the cut down windshield looks much better. I also have Staelth graphics on my '97 in teal, rasberry and silver.
Damnn I want a bigger boat!!

That is an incredible top speed for a 38' boat with 525's! Reggie should use that boat as a tester. Fountain has the hull, x-dimension etc. set at optimum on that boat. As a comparison I am running a 91 32' with Crockett 600's and the best I have done is 88.4 in fresh water with cool weather. In humid hot conditions I am good to get 85.

Curt,

The reason for the much better top speed on the new Fountains is the new bottom. Your '91 does not have steps. This new 38 is the second generation step bottom. Its called the "Super Ventilated Positive Lift Hull". It has two steps that are much more aggressive than the original step bottoms that had only one or two smaller steps. The new 38 on this thread also has staggered engines which allows the drives to be mounted closer together which improves top speed also. Having one engine foward also balances the boat better.

Fountain has really done there homework with the new hulls. They test and prove everything on the race course.

Ron

GOOOOOO REGGIE!!!!:D

would this be the same boat?

Looks like it. Thats Phillips shop next door to his house.

Where did you get the pic?

Ron

For the guys that still have the trim reservoir leaks:
Check to see if your reservoir mounts at the top with 4 screws (newer design) or if it mounts with a single screw through the bottom. I think that they changed to the top mount because the reservoir would deform over time and leak at the top seal. If your pump has 4 screw mount holes around the top next to the reservoir but still has the single bottom screw, you can get the new reservoir kit to mount from the top. As for the cap, some have had luck leaving in the red shipping cap and punching a couple of small 1/16" holes for venting and reinstalling the yellow cap over the top. The turbosonics cap is still a better solution, but if in a pinch it works pretty well.

rjcardinal

What's the story on the boat.............is it someone's or the marina's and is it for sale?

Its a friend of mines boat. He is a Fountain dealer so Im sure its for sale. He just got it when I posted the pics.

Ron