Good point

Mine had twin big blocks so I am sure a single would sit a little higher.

If you look at a transom shot of a 29 there's a notch as well as a swim platform. Add the beak in and you probably have a 25.

Is the transom deadrise even 24 degrees?

I had a 89 with twin 260's and Alpha's. I put over 500 hours on it and never broke once. It was only a 60 MPH boat! It was originally called a 27 then miraculously grew 2 feet.

Yes, the single actually looks "normal" at the dock.

If memory serves me correctly, even the "big" Fountains (35' & up) were 23 degrees. The 27' - 32' models were something like 21 or 22 degrees. The CS 24 was, well let's just say it was almost flat.

LOL...I was being generous! Fountain guys get sensative about their length!

wrong!!!!

I was so set on buying a 29 fountain single engine before I joined this site and really did the research. Up until that point all research was from magazines. Couple of things that killed it for me was: cabin was too small and not enough headroom, the idea of a hand laid solid glass hull (no core) custom boat vs production., I wanted a true 28-29ft hull, didn't like the transom rubrail so close to the water line.

I agree with other post about maintenance of single vs twins. In the long run it was a wash IMO and I valued the reliability of twin stock power and drives vs single high performance with the obvious possiblity of drive problems that comes with all big powered single engine boats over 27ft. You can rebuild or replace twin stock 502's for the less than it will cost to rebuild or replace a 525EFI. I ended up buying a 28 Apache and was a home run for our family. Sold it a month ago.

Lol. But really if you take the swim platform and the first 3-4 feet off of any boat you could really say the same.

Not all of that was a Fountain issue. The USCG changed the way they required manufacturers to measure boats with built in swim platforms about then. Silly things happend at Fountain and other manufacturers because of that. For instance:

- The 10 Meter became a 33' (square transom) that became the 35' with a molded in platform

- The 12 meter that became a 40' (square transom) became a 42' with a molded in platform

- The 27' square transom became the 29' with a molded in platform

- The original 29' (square transom / twin engine) molds reportedly were pushed back into the burning building when Fountain had a fire at the factory because Reggie hated the hull so much