ICDEDPPL

None of this makes any sense whatsoever. I wouldn`t even know where to start.. so..
please post video

Wildman_grafix

Wow just wow. I think every time someone post a thread about a new 41 outterlimits I am going to jump on about how that includes a HUGE (insert Donald's voice) brustle.

Anyway to the OP,

Take Mike's advise, lake MI can get nasty fast, been out in it before on small CC's and didn't watch weather and I will tell you it is not fun. If you say that most boating will be rivers and lake and only go out when it's nice the 29 will be a great boat. Grew up in that region most don't understand unless they have boated on the "lake".

If you are talking most on lake MI I think you will want something bigger, to short of a season to be sitting waiting for the lake to calm down.

I also want to say during one rough Chicago poker run I know that a 28AT didn't go out. He told me it was too rough. This was when he was selling the 28 to buy a 37,,,,,,don't know if any 37's went out.
If you look up the pictures that was a rough one. The old eliminator dealer has a picture of him running where I swear it looks like he is higher in the air then the chopper!

jwws9999

I respectfully disagree, I boat the great lakes, and I don't care how big your boat is, when they start getting to 6 footers and above, nobody goes out, just not fun, and there's nobody else is out there anyways. As far as getting caught by the weather, I used to run a 24 Outlaw, it rattled my teeth being out there, but I was always able to make it back safely, and was never afraid

Wildman_grafix

You know I am not sure what you disagree with? Like you said when it gets bad you don't go out, just not fun. The only thing I am saying is the point when you decide it is to bad will be different on a longer boat?

MILD THUNDER

Have you ever watched any offshore racing? All the boats, have the props coming out of the water. I am not understanding the logic behind the "fountains cant' keep their props in the water so they lose" concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niwjMgDl02k

MILD THUNDER

I bet this guy was way behind the shallow X dimension boats with his props coming out every few seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm0RPcePjL0

boatnt

Just so we are clear I was not arguing with anybody, I like ALL boats if your out there having a good time who gives a f%ck what brand of boat your on.
I just sometimes feel like replying to some of the uneducated and hateful/down grading replies, and its usually from the same couple of guys.

but trust me,none of this $hit is important enough to me to argue over.more important things in life than trying to
convince some one on what brand boat to buy.

Tinkerer

DUH - because the DEEP V boat will tend to cut the top of the wave and keep the prop in contact with the water. The pad bottom tends to ride on top of the wave and bounce just like flat bottom boats do compared to a shallow v.
AND ONCE AGAIN -- I wasn't talking about 40 ft race boats. I was talking about 27 ft boats. BIG DIFFERENCE
There is a video that I posted years ago of my boat racing a 40 ft Fountain. My stern and props never left the water. The Fountain was in the air most of the time.
This boat would walk away from me in ANYTHING less than 3 footers.

papps

It think the large singles like a 29 Fountain fill an important gap for someone like me. It was big enough to run most days on Lake Lanier but small enough to fit my dock and pull it with a full size SUV.......about 8000 lbs on an aluminum trailer. The combo of the single engine and high X dimension made it ridiculously easy to work in the bilge. Slow out of the hole but would run 75 any day which was enough for me at the time. I would bet a 28 Pantera rides better and a 30 Activator is faster with same power but only from riding next to those boats on the lake.
The other advantage is a 29 Fountain has a good name (relatively) so is much easier to sell. That 28 Pantera was for sale for a year and no takers, immaculate boat but with huge power. I sold the 29 without ever putting it on the market and got what I paid for it after 3 years of ownership.

carcommander

I have a '27 I have had on Lanier for 12 years. Lake Lanier is never too rough for a '27 much less a '29. It's not the great lakes though.