I put over 500 hours on my last cat in 4 summers in Texas. I use my boat like a family boat. The cockpit of my coupe is just a roomy as my fathers 42 fountain. The seats are high off the floor, my wife can't touch setting down. Its not like a Skater or MTI where the seats are bolted to the floor.

I like to stay out all day sometimes to 2am or so. Being able to stay out of the wind running all day if you run 100-200 miles on a sat is a good thing. To each his own I guess.

I'm reading this thread with my 5 year old and he keeps bugging me to check my lottery tickets lol

Love the Lemonators. The red one looks like something you'd see at Speed Week in Utah running on the salt.

I totally understand your point of view. don't get me wrong , And I understand the getting out of the wind thing at the speeds you cat guys got to maintain to get those things where they just start to pack air.

It's just the looks of the new mono's and all cats just don't do it for me because they should.
You see nowadays I am mostly a sailor have been both for 45 years ,loving the offshore boats more in the earlier years but now more towards the sailboats . Grew up sailing on the classics and loving the beauty of them but that all went on the window when I went for a ride on my 1st hi-performance cat 35 years ago and now I can look past the awkwardness of the looks of the sailcats and admire the beauty for the speed and efficiency that they possess.

Just ain't workin in the powerboats for me quite yet

My dream boat is a 42' Fountain with 1350's Come on Powerball!!

Nothing really over the top but still can not afford any of the wish list that I would like to have.

The original Dragon Boat
The brand new GTMM
Pick of any brand new Apache
The brand new 42 Chief
Brand new 43 Nor-tech
Brand new 36 Sunsation
Maybe a new 41 Pantera

All V- hull apps on my wish list

for single engine boat apps

New Rage
New 29 Laveycraft
New 29 Progression
new 29 Hustler
New 30 Adrenaline
If all possible New 28 Apache / Brave with a single engine app.

or a used 30 Activator in mint condition and babied.

Not in any specific order either. I better start saving every penny by the looks of this list.

Still my all-time favorite Daytona Coupe...

I'm so with you on this boat. Yeah I know all the other high-tech boats are so much better...I don't care, this is an absolute beauty. I'd take it and wave with a smile as all the others blow past me.

Interesting thought ,the dreamboat. To me the dream boat would be just that the dream that I came up with using some custom builder somewhere taking a proven or not so proven race hull and making it a beautiful pleasure boat maybe a large phantom or SeaRex . To build something not in the mainstream.

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Hogie,

I like this pic

luv the way the windshield looks like its part of the boat naturally.

the windshield doesn't look like an after-thought but a natural integral part of the hull

The receiver just flows soo smoothly from the deck to the receiver to the glass

thanks for sharing these pics

Who makes this glass windshield?

Photo Credit: OSO ID: "Hogie Roll"