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Fountain

Company Profile

Unlike other builders, Reggie Fountain combines boat-design genius based on decades of hands-on performance boat development with a successful business background founded in real estate and life insurance. Most boat companies are headed by designers who don't know a thing about business, or entrepreneurs who just happen to like boats, Fountain has degrees in business and law The mark Fountains have left on the sportboat and fishing boat markets is indelible. Fountain is the only builder in history to earn Boat of the Year honors from three different boating publications, including Powerboat, Hot Boat and Boating. For 19 consecutive years, Fountain has been recognized in Powerboat magazine's annual Awards for Product Excellence program, including five Offshore Boat of the Year awards–the most recent in 1996. Furthermore, fishing boats designed and built by Fountain have thoroughly dominated competition on the Southern Kingfish Association (SKA) tour like no other builder in history. Anglers in Fountain fishing boats have earned first-place overall honors five of the last ten years, which is more than all other boat builders combined. For a R&D program with Mercury, in 1978 Fountain contracted with Bill Farmer of Excalibur Boats in Sarasota, Florida to use one of Farmer's 31' V-bottoms. As the testing program progressed, Fountain couldn't resist the temptation to tinker with the boat. Before long, Reggie had made so many changes the boat no longer resembled the original. The forerunner to the first Fountain was born. As the development process continued, Fountain noticed a growing market for the highly customized test boats. A short time later, Fountain Powerboats was born in an abandoned used car dealership just outside Reggie's residence in Washington, North Carolina near the Pamlico River. What started in 1979 as a 10,000-square-foot manufacturing facility with eight employees and annual sales of $515,000, has swelled to 300,000 square feet, more than 375 employees and projected sales for the 2000 model year in excess of $55,000,000. In 1998, Reggie Fountain took on his biggest challenge and introduced the 65' Super Cruiser, which revolutionized the world of motoryachts. Utilizing surface drive technology and Fountain's revolutionary Super Ventilated bottom design, this new boat is capable of speeds in excess of 60 mph, making it the fastest boat in its class. If there were a racing class for Super Cruisers, Fountain would dominate it, too. He knows no other way. In addition to his world-renowned sportboats, fishermen can likewise enjoy Fountain's patented brand of performance. Fountain entered the bluewater fishing market at full strength in 1990. Reggie’s next big challenge will be his jump into the cruiser market. These boats will have all of the amenities of a luxury yacht with the performance that Fountain is world renowned for.