You're correct they built the Top Fish and others, never questioned quality. My post was directed towards the current crop of large mega dollar C.C. models available. I don't buy lottery tickets so why am I even commenting on this subject ?

I just can’t get over this shape.




Top of the style class for me, cig nighthawk, NT 450, and here’s a shocker, Contender 44.

I agree the NT 39 is great, it seems to be the best selling too.





just don’t do this to it


darkhorse, fish around is my favorite layout. I found the black on red boat really striking.

On that subject, I knew a guy that won it twice (3mm in Ohio, moved to Florida like everyone else and won 20 million). Was dead within 10 years of the 2nd win.

My aunt lived in the same neighborhood as David Lee Edwards (mullet Powerball winner from Kentucky). He has been featured on Real Losers of the Lottery type shows. He won 27mm and was broke 7 years later, subsequently died 12 years after winning. He buys in a golf club community, litters the driveway with about a dozen exotic cars. Meadow Soprano/Jaime Sigler lived next door and actually sold the house and moved because this guy was unstable and the friends were sketchy. When you saw him daily driving a yellow Diablo with a 3 foot long pony tail you knew that guy wasn't a CEO!

So I'd say the boats you would pick are likely the least of your worries when you win a big jackpot!

I hate fishing, catching is fun but fishing blows! I can go to the finest fish restaurant in town and buy a wonderful dinner cheaper than buying just bait for the day!
I know how to fish, but a beer buzz, a sunburn and empty fishboxes are hard facts for most "fisherman." Everybody posts their epic catch, rarely do you see the empty fish box pics!

The big diesel sportfishes are showstoppers idling out the inlet or even tied to the dock but they burn $1200-1400 an hour in fuel and can easily burn a million dollar budget annually if it's fished frequently. One of my neighbors is a captain for a 92 Viking. The budget is 1.5mm a year, boat gets run East Coast US all the way down to South America. Owners fly in/fish/fly home. He says spend 1.499mm and you get a pat on the back, spend 1.55mm and suddenly forensic accountants want to see where every dollar went!

Its cool, its a lifestyle but anything over 40 ft is crazy to me..........remember if it flies, floats or fvcks........RENT IT!

The new 38'Fountain looks nice.

Did they do away with the beak and the windshield??

At what share price does he cease to be a billionaire?

No idea but the whole deal seemed like bad math. The company has billions in claims but it makes no money, as in the claims aren't being paid. Ruiz had to loan the company 113mm just to give it cash flow. Stock is 1/10th of what it went public at.

This Washington Post article better explains it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/why-a33-billion-spac-deal-couldntpay-its-bankers/2022/06/21/d3b534fc-f11f-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html

MSP Recovery Inc. was valued at almost $33 billion prior to going public last month, making the healthcare-litigation company the most expensive US SPAC deal ever, at least on paper. The excitement didn’t last.

MSP is now worth a more modest $4.3 billion after the shares collapsed more than 85% since its blank-check merger closed and regular trading began, and the drama didn’t end there. Just days after listing, MSP warned its ability to continue as a going concern was in substantial doubt. Nomura Holdings Inc. and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. (a Stifel Financial Corp. subsidiary) accepted $45 million in promissory notes – IOUs to you and me – in lieu of their advisory fees, because MSP lacked cash to pay them.

On Friday MSP founder John H. Ruiz and his business partner revealed they’re lending the company $113 million to plug the shortfall. Ruiz told me MSP also owns a “significant amount” of medical-claim rights and had seen “enormous growth” in new business. “I don’t think the valuation today is a function of anything other than a really bad stock market, high interest rates, high inflation...and a lot of naked shorting that pressured the stock down.”

Share price at 81c……still hanging onto the billionaire title by the fingernails.