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Old 08-12-2008, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by blume
Fountain specs show 9200LB's dry weight with 525 and bravos. http://www.fountainpowerboats.com/bo...42PR_specs.asp a 525EFI weight is 1201LB's and the 1075SCI's weight is 1720LB's......I don't know if that's with drives, but I think it does?? http://mercuryracing.com/sterndrives...5sci/specs.php http://mercuryracing.com/sterndrives/hp525efi/specs.php

that 1720 is with the drives
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Originally Posted by Jassman
that 1720 is with the drives
that would make it have a dry weight of 10,200LB's........that's not a light weight boat by any means!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by blume
that would make it have a dry weight of 10,200LB's........that's not a light weight boat by any means!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has to weight less than that
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Originally Posted by Strip Poker 388
It has to weight less than that
look at the links and add it up? the Fountain link shows a dry weight of 9200lbs with 525's and the 1075's weight 520lbs more each, thats 10,240lbs right off the Fountain and Mercury web-sites?.......but I have not weighted one!!
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I wonder if there is any variance on the weight on the 42pr???or exaggerate the weight to make the power to weight look better.


Dry 10200lbs
guessing
2 dudes 400lbs
gas 200 gals 1640lbs
oil 2 motors 30qts 70lbs
drive oil 10gals 90lbs

12400lbs

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Originally Posted by Strip Poker 388
I wonder if there is any variance on the weight on the 42pr???or exaggerate the weight to make the power to weight look better.


Dry 10200lbs
guessing
2 dudes 400lbs
gas 200 gals 1640lbs
oil 2 motors 30qts 70lbs
drive oil 10gals 90lbs

12400lbs

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don't know, but that's a lot of weight to be going 140+mph. The Skater 399 weights like 6100lb's dry with no motors and drives, add 1075's and drives thats only 9540lb's dry??

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Old 08-12-2008, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Strip Poker 388
gas 200 gals 1640lbs
you put water in your gas tank?

i think you mean more like 6.0-6.5 than 8.3 lb/gallon i think...

which would be closer to 1200-1300 lbs.

and mike, the owner, said it was about 10k with some fuel in it... i don't know what "some" fuel means..
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Did it look to anybody else that the warning lights were going off when the boat was running? Wonder what that was all about? One day I will have a boat like that but for now I will be happy with my 29
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Originally Posted by Racerngr1
Did it look to anybody else that the warning lights were going off when the boat was running? Wonder what that was all about? One day I will have a boat like that but for now I will be happy with my 29
It was hitting the rev limiter, it started doing it at 138mph, how fast will it go not on the rev limiter???
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Fountain's are not known to be lightweight boats. I can see a pleasure 42 with fuel weighing 9-10k lbs.

My 38TE with fuel is around 11-12K lbs
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