On the way out of town, we noticed this boat for sale.
Who's is/was it? Anyone know any history?
Odd to see the old in-line canopy's....
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05-19-2011 09:32 PMGetting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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05-19-2011 10:42 PM
One of the few Fountains that haven't sank at the dock ?
Parabellum FJ²B
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05-19-2011 10:49 PMI think It,s an old ( Harry shearer or something like that ) boat .
Many have probably seen it hangin around vaca key back in the day .
Could be wrong tho .
Myself and a young newbie looked at it for svl at the time ,( 2003) We Ended up going with a more patriotic hull in the end .
I remember seeing it run p-4 i think ,it was SQUIRRLEY.
It chine walked so bad it made the Lavey SVL look stable !
Again i could be wrong .Last edited by mdkeywest; 05-20-2011 at 01:27 AM.
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05-20-2011 09:24 AM
Not totally sure, but it Looks just like the one Challenger put together many years back. They made 2 I believe. The other one that looks just like it only white is located in a farm field not far from my house.
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05-20-2011 03:38 PMCouple more hints.....
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05-20-2011 04:14 PMIMCO #10- 2009 National Champions
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05-20-2011 05:49 PMIt was mine. Ran it in 2006 with SBI.
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05-20-2011 05:51 PMHere's some pics of it running deerfield beach 2006 and Key West 2006.
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05-20-2011 06:00 PMI swear That 4 screw metal plate in the pic looks like a neck plate off an off brand strat LOL
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05-20-2011 06:07 PMI made a mistake with this boat swapping out the pulse drive and going to the bravo. I was running a supercat 750 in it and worked and worked to get it to handle right. I blew that motor in Deerfield 06 spinning 7600RPM . I put in a 525EFI after that and messed around with drive heights. I was moving the drive around between 1/2 above and 2 below the bottom and the boat would just not handle. Later dropped it 4 below the bottom and it was like running on rails but scrubbed about 5mph off the top(89-90MPH). Took it to the worlds that year and after a huge cafuffle in the pits with tech claiming an illegal motor I ran 1 race in P3 and packed it in.
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05-20-2011 09:54 PM
I raced my Phantom against that boat in 1999 in A-Class. It was a pretty stable boat with that set up.
I'd rather be on the boat with a drink on the rocks, than in the drink with my boat on the rocks.
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05-20-2011 09:54 PMNow that is cool history to know.......
So you wish you'd left the pulse on??????
Why did you change it???????Getting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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05-21-2011 12:03 AMThe plan was to run SVL and the bravo was a requirement. The Pulse Drive was a much better handling drive on that particular boat.
Here's another pic while being painted. If the orgs ever allowed surface drives in the spec classes I would certainly go that route. This one.
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05-22-2011 02:17 PM
Bazaar looking boat
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05-22-2011 05:17 PM
It ran as "Frayed Knot" way back when and is a 30" Infinity.
I'd rather be on the boat with a drink on the rocks, than in the drink with my boat on the rocks.
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05-22-2011 06:35 PMThat counter rotating Pulse must handle pretty well......
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