What's even more amazing is that Fountain didn't start offshore racing until 1990, after retiring from tunnel-boat racing nearly a decade before. Most racers take years to get their first offshore victory, but Fountain began winning instantly and continues to frequent the winner's circle. Not since the late Don Aronow has one man designed, built, throttled and driven a boat of his own make to such dominance on the demanding offshore tour. Fountain Powerboats is the only V-bottom builder in the decade of the '90s to score a first-place overall finish at a nationally sanctioned offshore race. We've taken the overall victory more than a dozen times. Additionally, through a two-year stretch, Reggie Fountain went undefeated in major offshore competition.

Perhaps Fountain's biggest milestone achievement in offshore racing came in New Orleans, LA, in 1990. Racing against a star-studded fleet that included actors Chuck Norris, Don Johnson and Kurt Russell, Fountain overcame amazing odds and beat the entire field of high-tech one-design racing catamarans with his V-bottom. The win was particularly sweet for Fountain because V-bottoms reputedly were no match for the catamarans in slick water. To the amazement of the "experts," Fountain aced a fleet of the world's fastest offshore cats in water conditions on Lake Ponchartrain that would've been ideal for a barefoot ski tournament.

Two years later in 1992, Reggie, throttling John Rebhan's Fountain 42' Lightning, Ohio Steel, accomplished the near impossible by capturing the OPT World and National Championships in Open V-bottom. Fountain also won the APBA World Championship in Manufacturer's Super Vee.

You might as well call Reggie Fountain "Mr. Milestone." In 1998, he achieved a record that no one else in powerboat racing can match, capturing his 100th career victory. In the same year, his company, Fountain Powerboats, celebrated its own milestone-its 20th anniversary!