ttuton

I thought both of those examples were a lot of boat for the money. The fountain is older but would ride great and could probably be baffled down. Just going along with what someone else said that you may find the jump from 25 to 28 feet being hardly noticeable. You may end up shopping again in 2 years because the boat still feels small. I am in the process of shopping for a boat after I sell my 27 fountain. The smallest I am willing to go is a true 31.

Full Force

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I can't imagine having anything less then 32 ft ever again

POWERPLAY J

47k is a good place to be. Deals do pop up here and there. There was a real nice Dominator that sold recently right around that price. If you don't snag something soon I will see what pops up around here as we get closer to spring.

Captain YARRR

Don't let the listings fool you, I look at the classifieds every day (it's kind of a problem) and all these boats that are priced so high have been sitting. The Dominators and Formulas that are selling are definitely in your price range.

When I bought my Dominator I thought I made a super low ball and it turned out to be pretty realistic. You should be able to land a mid-2000s small block Dominator at your budget if you start making offers.

looseconnection

a clean 292 could be had for 47, mine was as clean as they come and I gave under 47 for it. surveyor wrote above average in his report.

CraneHillFast

I am not knocking Fountain by any means because I own one. With two big blocks in the back of the 29 there is not much room for maintenece. Just look at pictures and you will see what I mean. If I was going with twins I would at least step up to the 32. Just make sure the transom is solid. I know there were a few years they had a few balance issues with the rub rail sitting below or at the water line and if not maintained properly water could work it's way in. Typically to fix the problem people replaced the rub rail and replaced the cast iron manifolds with something lighter to raise the ass end up a bit. There were some 32's to have the small blocks that fixed the problem but I ran into a guy that had one and he says he wished every day he held out for big blocks.

Never ridden in a ZX only crawled around on a few. I loved the layout. I hope the ones I have looked at were not indicative of all 28 ZX's. I think they were just some bad apples with bad owners. Donzi makes a great boat and if you find either in good shape I don't think you could go wrong. But again if you are going twins on the Fountain take a hard look at the 32 instead of the 29. I would have loved to have a single 29 but everyone that owns one knows what they have and wants top dollar. Every one I tried to deal with would not budge on price.

Just my .02 and good luck looking. There are some great deals to be had right now.

endeavor1

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At least your looking at nice brands.

glassdave

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its pretty common in the whole ZX line. I have several on the one i have and have had many many ZX's through my shop for stress cracks. I still think there are extremely well built and very solid but for some reason they had gel issues.

rgrgoog

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Travis,
Mine should be back toegther by 1 Apr. I am getting my engines back from the engine shop Monday. I can take you out for a ride in mine and let you run it on Conroe once it is running if you do not buy another boat by then.

1989mach1

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