Cat Killer Returns!!!!!!!!!
06-28-2008 | 06:13 PM
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you win
you win...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 17mph faster for the big bad cat.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats a far cry from 20 to 30mph...........ohhhh, much closre to 15mph than 20mph.
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06-28-2008 | 06:42 PM
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Also at Reggie's trials, 31 mph, 2003.
06-28-2008 | 07:39 PM
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finally?????????????/
"On Aug. 1, 2003, Scott and Tomlinson drove the Bacardi Silver machine to the fastest official speed in Offshore Powerboat racing history when they clocked in at 202.907 mph on the Pamlico River of Washington, N.C., for an official SBI Kilo record."
Also at Reggie's trials, 31 mph, 2003.
Also at Reggie's trials, 31 mph, 2003.
06-28-2008 | 07:41 PM
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it sounds like alot of people think Cat Killer was the boat the set he Kilo record of 171. With the info that I have from someone close to fountain, cat killer has been over 190 when testing some high hp motors, but one of the engines let go.
06-28-2008 | 07:48 PM
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06-28-2008 | 07:51 PM
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...and it's all a load of $hit.
Top fuel hydros run quite a bit faster than any of them and they're not offshore boats either. This top speed garbage is just that- garbage. Speed is only one facet of what an OFFSHORE boat needs to have. Fountain has been very successful in changing the conversation- talking about building offshore boats and proving their capabilities on glass-smooth water.
Top fuel hydros run quite a bit faster than any of them and they're not offshore boats either. This top speed garbage is just that- garbage. Speed is only one facet of what an OFFSHORE boat needs to have. Fountain has been very successful in changing the conversation- talking about building offshore boats and proving their capabilities on glass-smooth water.
06-28-2008 | 10:03 PM
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He who has the most advertising dollars wins...Period. Just like back in the '90s when Reggie, piloting his own 10meter got his azz handed to him by a po-dunk boat builder in Alabama in a 21 footer called a Stryker. Hot Boat Mag covered the test session and after his azz was handed to him, Reggie told the mag that if any of that got printed he would pull all of his advertising in the mag. Big surprise here, that article never ran...Stryker (who did not have an advertising campaign with the magazine) eventually went out of business & Fountain is still the chit (according to the propaganda).
06-30-2008 | 10:33 PM
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Not really.
I don't like Reggie because of the constant big talk and the smoke & mirrors. He constantly plays the shell game on this Cat Killer thing. It's never straightforward.
He tells the world he builds the fastest, safest most well-built powerboats in the world. He builds the Chevrolet of offshore boats. Not bad, not the best by any stretch.
Sure he's done alot for the industry, but only through osmosis. He's done alot for himself. There are alot of builders that put together better boats that could be had for the same or less but have been crushed by Fountain. Fountain only survives because Brunswick desperately needs him to. He's a major conduit for their hardware. I'm glad I didn't invest all I had in the FPB stock at the IPO in '85. I believe it was $9. Had it followed the market (Dow closed out '85 at 1500), Reggies stock should be worth about $66 at yesterday's close. It closed at 95 cents. Ouch. So no, I don't respecty him as a businessman.
I'd respect the Hell out of Reggie if he just went out there, told it straight and did it- win or lose, fastest or second-fastest. But that's not him. He's a cross between P.T. Barnum & Napoleon Bonaparte.
I don't like Reggie because of the constant big talk and the smoke & mirrors. He constantly plays the shell game on this Cat Killer thing. It's never straightforward.
He tells the world he builds the fastest, safest most well-built powerboats in the world. He builds the Chevrolet of offshore boats. Not bad, not the best by any stretch.
Sure he's done alot for the industry, but only through osmosis. He's done alot for himself. There are alot of builders that put together better boats that could be had for the same or less but have been crushed by Fountain. Fountain only survives because Brunswick desperately needs him to. He's a major conduit for their hardware. I'm glad I didn't invest all I had in the FPB stock at the IPO in '85. I believe it was $9. Had it followed the market (Dow closed out '85 at 1500), Reggies stock should be worth about $66 at yesterday's close. It closed at 95 cents. Ouch. So no, I don't respecty him as a businessman.
I'd respect the Hell out of Reggie if he just went out there, told it straight and did it- win or lose, fastest or second-fastest. But that's not him. He's a cross between P.T. Barnum & Napoleon Bonaparte.
06-30-2008 | 10:59 PM
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