It certainly was different time. The drivers had mad respect for each other and no one was getting run over. Been involved since 88 when Dad first raced. He actually worked at Fountain Power boats in High Performance division as the head engineer. He was heavily involved in the first step bottom carbon fiber expoxy boats built in the mid 90’s. The big one was Ohio Steel #2. That boat was wicked fast back then. 137.24 MPH according to the recording you heard when you called there and were placed one hold in 1995.
"Bye bye, movie star." I'm not even a big fan of Fountain boats, I just like Reggies ego and the way he backs up his talk. #chucknorris #donjohnson #kurtrussell #fountain #offshorepowerboat
If you listen to the commentary you'll note that Chuck Norris was driver of the day aboard the Popeyes cat, whilst Don Johnson was the driver of the 4 engined cat. Those were the days of celebrity racers!
One these 47 race hills sits down the road from me in Maryland. Been converted to a poker run boat at some point. Boats all red and named the dealer. Motors and drives are gone.
highvelocity123 in big water, absolutely. The reason Fountains are fast in flat water and fastest V bottoms then, was because they were the first V bottom to incorporate a running pad on the bottom taken from an original Allison boat design. This was a new thing for offshore hulls to have as a design. Apache and Cigarette did not have a running pad, and were slower in flat water.
Sounds like to me sloarcat1 has his kitty cat butt whooped by a Fountain more than once! And that Mercedes boat is a lake boat. We will see how well it does in a real off shore race!
It is a 1993 competition 47 Flat-deck hull only a few were made in the world. We watched this boat getting built from scratch impressive combination Fountain started first twin step hull design in 1995. We purchased our 1993 12meter Fountain ICBM the same year with the arch all red boat gray interior pair of 454s magnums 420 hp. Top speed approximately 68-71 mph
SuperGoldnut it doesn’t matter. It’s been well over ten years and no one has even tried. Well Reggie did a few years ago and almost died. The boat started packing air in the piss poor design canopy and the boat was literally getting lifted out of the water. Fiore set that record over 12 years ago. Reggie is the King of Offshore as we know it but the real King is Don A. Fiore has the speed!
I will definitely keep smoking no doubt. Bottom line is Outerlimits=Fastest V Bottom on the planet. You also must remember that I worked at Fountain, in Washington NC, as a favor to my father. He was the head of R&D while fountain was building its first step bottom, fiber carbon/epoxy boats. 1994.
He's the absolute marine equivalent of Ferrucchio Lamborghini, Enzo Ferrari,Horacio Pagani and Christian von Koenigsegg.
Add Soichiro Honda and Ferdinand Porsche to that list.
I got the privilege to see Regie Fountain race his boat against Team USA. Those were the days!! Life seemed so much simpler back then.
It certainly was different time. The drivers had mad respect for each other and no one was getting run over. Been involved since 88 when Dad first raced. He actually worked at Fountain Power boats in High Performance division as the head engineer. He was heavily involved in the first step bottom carbon fiber expoxy boats built in the mid 90’s. The big one was Ohio Steel #2. That boat was wicked fast back then. 137.24 MPH according to the recording you heard when you called there and were placed one hold in 1995.
"Bye bye, movie star." I'm not even a big fan of Fountain boats, I just like Reggies ego and the way he backs up his talk. #chucknorris #donjohnson #kurtrussell #fountain #offshorepowerboat
If you listen to the commentary you'll note that Chuck Norris was driver of the day aboard the Popeyes cat, whilst Don Johnson was the driver of the 4 engined cat. Those were the days of celebrity racers!
12-31-3022 Still love "Bye-bye, Movie Star"!
Reggie Fountain, the man, the myth the legend.
I love my lightning !
One these 47 race hills sits down the road from me in Maryland. Been converted to a poker run boat at some point. Boats all red and named the dealer. Motors and drives are gone.
He is the reason we can have super fast V boats!
this is real Reggie is a great friend and the King
love the old Fountains. Use to work for a Fountain dealer, We build a 10 meter that went 112 MPH
He is the original shit talker lol. I love it.
The Original BMF!!
Ha Ha . When the King of "Trim" shows up! You should know the best you're going to do is take second .
LOL 😂 WHERE IS THE V BOAT TODAY? In the very back and last class. You won’t see one in the super unlimited class.
Did you see that big Apache at the end...? Put those 2 boats in 6 to 8 foot seas and the Apache will take anything...
highvelocity123 in big water, absolutely. The reason Fountains are fast in flat water and fastest V bottoms then, was because they were the first V bottom to incorporate a running pad on the bottom taken from an original Allison boat design. This was a new thing for offshore hulls to have as a design. Apache and Cigarette did not have a running pad, and were slower in flat water.
Sounds like to me sloarcat1 has his kitty cat butt whooped by a Fountain more than once! And that Mercedes boat is a lake boat. We will see how well it does in a real off shore race!
Pay back for the movie star....
classic way to end the video lol....... nuttin to say!!!!!!
@jss1970 back in the day it did...now tech came around and they cart will waste him
If you look at the altitude of the boat and the rooster tail, it looks like the Cat wasn't going all out
He was probably unable too. Reliability is as important as speed.
Altitude?
@@Icutmetal you must be new to boating
@@booyamotorsports You must not know how to spell.
@@Icutmetal Try using Google or run upstairs out of your basement and ask your mommy
What year was this??
I have the RC boat replica , and I wonder what year this original Cat Killer was.
It is a 1993 competition 47 Flat-deck hull only a few were made in the world.
We watched this boat getting built from scratch impressive combination
Fountain started first twin step hull design in 1995.
We purchased our 1993 12meter Fountain ICBM the same year with the arch all red boat gray interior pair of 454s magnums 420 hp. Top speed approximately 68-71 mph
@jss1970 If you're so sure you know what you're talking about, go race Reggie and prove it.
Bye bye movies ⭐️ star. Yea like that
12-31-2022....stupid keyboard.
Fiore whooped that ass!!!!!!!
SuperGoldnut it doesn’t matter. It’s been well over ten years and no one has even tried. Well Reggie did a few years ago and almost died. The boat started packing air in the piss poor design canopy and the boat was literally getting lifted out of the water. Fiore set that record over 12 years ago. Reggie is the King of Offshore as we know it but the real King is Don A. Fiore has the speed!
I will definitely keep smoking no doubt. Bottom line is Outerlimits=Fastest V Bottom on the planet. You also must remember that I worked at Fountain, in Washington NC, as a favor to my father. He was the head of R&D while fountain was building its first step bottom, fiber carbon/epoxy boats. 1994.
Fountain is way better than outerlimits. Reggie is without a doubt the king of offshore/ v- bottoms. Skater is the king of cats
@@brandonthorbahn138 Opinions differ.
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