How about the outer limits that blew apart and almost killed Dick lazarra ? It was only going 70-75 and blew apart. The pic of the skater is a crack. The OL that blew apart couldn't be fixed. Big difference. Also Nigel's OL boat spun going straight blew apart and sank. In flat water. Lol

Puts it in perspective. Now we can talk about 5mph.

Racing doesnt mean anything...was probably driver error...

The Lazzara boat that broke apart was Dick Lazzaras one layup schedule not Outerlimits. It was an agreement between Lazzara Yachts and Outerlimits Powerboats. The lucas oil boat rolled pushing hard trying to over take the first place boat in a turn and did not blow apart going almost 120mph. The complete canopy was intact and both driver and throttle man suffered ZERO injuries. The boat did not break from running through normal waves unlike the skater!!
Lol Johnny.....

All the talk of boats breaking up is not really relevant to the original question posed. Layup any boat light for racing and it can break. Thats why the old racing cigarette and apache race boats ( resin buckets) are still around today they weight on average 12 to 15 thousand pounds where these new race boats wieght 8 to 10 thousand pounds . They just can't sustain the pounding in the big water .

But I digress even though I am not necessarily a Fountain fan the record is still the record .

RG.

The skater cracked in half, the OL won the malta race. I think this is just a continual attack on Outerlimits. It's annoying to read over and over.

FOUNTAIN DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE...

The company went out of business.

Outerlimits is still in business, skater wants to claim OL stole the step design, the 42 was around allot before the skater vee was and proved it's stripes. I'm glad the skaters run so well they must be selling like hot cakes right?

Give it a rest...

Not to mention people whining about Fountain running 140 on 1075s..that's a 42 *ahem 38ft* boat....put 1075s in a 44 OL and it runs 140, larger boat vs smaller boat. The 52 running 145 with 1350s is a beautiful combination, it's also 52 FEET....try doing accurate comparisons.

I fail to see the comparison, apparently you'll never satisfy some people. The few Outerlimits that did have issues, I can recall a certain red boat with monster power, that the owner took into a 8ft barge wake at 140mph...I'd like to see what other boats do flying over that....

OL's run, the owners know they run, and I personally will not ever run 120 in another hull again, and anyone who's driven or been in one, knows it's one of the safest boats to go high speed in.

That's my .02cents. To all the people saying go for the record, yes it may stand, you want to see a record, put up the 25k for the Kilo, the money for the motors, safety, to pull one number out of something...go for it....it ain't cheap...and what will it get you, a bunch of people crying about how the number isn't real.

These threads go no where and it's just a waste of time to drag it out with bench racing for 43 pages...

I applaud Outerlimts for there Development on there new 29, keeping his Company and Industry on the cutting edge.

Does anyone know what power was in the fountain when it ran 177

pertty sure it had 1550 blower motors