What Boat Is This?

[Geronimo36]

Maybe a better what to explain is the V sorta turns into a pad and flattens the bottom and there are air holes where it "steps" up. Kinda hard to explain I guess but it makes sense when seeing it.

Any Phantom owners have pics of their bottoms?

[Chris]

I'll snap one when I get there tomorrow.

[olli]

i get the vent, but where are the steps?

[Geronimo36]

Thanks for the pics Olli.

[Bobcat]

Their website says...

Integral Air Inducted Bottom Lubrication System

sounds like a "wet fart"

[Phantom1]

This picture of my old 30 Phantom raceboat shows how the step is ventilated from the holes on the side. The non-canopied one is my current boat and shows the ventilation hole on the side.

[Excalibur Racing]

No 40 on their website, do they make a 40?

[Smarty]

Here!

On the smaller ones the step is further down near the first chine to the keel, sorta like the keel is cut out.

Frank,

Good accurate post. Will Smith's boats suck air where the holes are then have small steps with mutiple outlets to aerate the bottom. The design flat out works. I have a single step with a single hole, on each side of the boat (look at Twisted Styx-Simmons Marine 34' Phantom, World Champs for the past few years in P3 & P4).

If you see it in person it is much apparenent from the transom. Will had had this in his design before 1999.

You can see the air hole just above the trailer's second tire on my 34' Phantom. But you do not see the step, but it is there. Picture of port and starboard, holes on both sides of the boat. It work so well, that my depth gauge will not work when running do to the air running down the bottom while on plane (sender is in the boat/engine compartment, not externally fixed on the bottom)

[Smarty]

This picture of my old 30 Phantom raceboat shows how the step is ventilated from the holes on the side. The non-canopied one is my current boat and shows the ventilation hole on the side.

My bottom is like that picture, great post, just cannot see the step with the holes.

[THEJOKER]

Will is....well Will - haha. He's a good guy and know's his stuff.

[p29steve]

here is the bottom on my 34 phantom

[p29steve]

in this pic i was really trying to ventalate here

[Smarty]

Here is a real good picture of the 39' bottom with the air outlets (click on picture to see closer view), thanks to Freeze Frame

[MarylandMark]

Love the lines of those Phantoms!

[DAREDEVIL]

Actually they all have different bottoms !!!!!

All ever build 39's ( 3 ) are completeley different on the hull.

The only one still original is the MID AMERICAN Boat

Davis motorsport ( X reichman's ) is filled in complete.

X fury, is filled in partley and has now arnesons with a filler plate out of aluminum .

ALL OF THESE 39's NEED BIG POWER or they will not run.
with 525's the 2 fastest where Fury #1 107 MPH and MidAmerican #2 103 MPH
Reichman's boat never ran over 96 MPH with the 525's


Other then that ,,great handling !!!!!
Here is a pic of the other 2.

[MarylandMark]

Neighbors gotta love #3- Christmas lights up, duelie Suburban, boat in front yard. LOL!

[DAREDEVIL]

Neighbors gotta love #3- Christmas lights up, duelie Suburban, boat in front yard. LOL!

Thats my house,,,,the freakin little boat ( DAREDEVIL ) is in the back yard too .LOL oh and in front of the Suburban was a 21 APACHE at the time !!!!

If they say something ,,,i shoot !!! HEHE

[imco offshore]

Actually they all have different bottoms !!!!!

All ever build 39's ( 3 ) are completeley different on the hull.

The only one still original is the MID AMERICAN Boat

Davis motorsport ( X reichman's ) is filled in complete.

X fury, is filled in partley and has now arnesons with a filler plate out of aluminum .

ALL OF THESE 39's NEED BIG POWER or they will not run.
with 525's the 2 fastest where Fury #1 107 MPH and MidAmerican #2 103 MPH
Reichman's boat never ran over 96 MPH with the 525's


Other then that ,,great handling !!!!!
Here is a pic of the other 2.

scott i was in the Illmors and Arnisons at 107 at 3/4 throttle ,, so i would say the Illmor boat was so far the fastest,i don,t know what the top speed would be,, but it would be 2 or 4 more mphs.

[DAREDEVIL]

scott i was in the Illmors and Arnisons at 107 at 3/4 throttle ,, so i would say the Illmor boat was so far the fastest,i don,t know what the top speed would be,, but it would be 2 or 4 more mphs.

George,,,READ what i wrote !!!!!!!


WITH 525's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I think davis's boat is the fastest now ,,or atleast was with the big Cobra motors .

X fury,,,,113.8 max ,but will not turn because no water to the arnesons because of the nice plate will made ?! Sorry,,it is what it is !!!!

[imco offshore]

OK,never mind, i,m going home????