OL40SVX

It was Velocity or Hustler.

302Sport

now were getting somewhere.......how bout pleasure boats????? had to be something before the late 90's

302Sport

u gotta know something with your wealth of knowledge....this is before my time so i dunno

OL40SVX

I think a 40ft pleasure Huslter was the first, in the late 80's. Velocity was the first in their 30ft in the under 38 catagory. The Velocity didnt have Merc power but I believe the Hustler did, triples though. It was something I believe in 1998 that the 36 or 40 Skater was the first pleasure boat to break 140mph with stock Mercury power. Before my time as well I just know a bunch of old people.

kreed

iTrader: (2)

It was before Dan's time too!!! ....I believe, in 82' the Excalibur Hawk ran 101.2 MPH with Merc 420's with the upgraded DUAL point distributor, a cool can, and a lighter spring in the vaccum secondaries.

tgersx

My old 1998 37 OL was built with stock merc 800sc and V's did 103mph which was fast back then.

302Sport

That would've been a fast boat in its day. A 38 fountain with 800s and 6s.....

ApachePete

My 1989 Apache 41 was built as a pleasure boat, with Merc 1000 SC's, and went 104 @ Lake X, before we raced it.

That was 1989.

kreed

iTrader: (2)

Have you owned it since 89' ?

T2x

Since Velocity did it with their 31 footer back in 1980 or 81, I would suggest that a larger pleasure Vee did it within a couple of years after that. Fountain was just beginning and only had the 10 meter (33 foot) Excalibur Executioner but they were pretty fast. I would guess that Apache or Velocity did it by 1985. Certainly the Open Class Vees were running over 100 by then and the big triple engine Cougars and Apaches also were available. Since some "pleasure boats" sported everything from Gale Banks Chryslers to full race Mercruiser and Eickhert power back then , the power was certainly available.

Hard to say, who, specifically, was first.