Perhaps best-known in the performance-boating community as a collector of fine Skater Powerboats catamarans—and he still owns two as well as one MTI cat—Ron Szolack also has owned slew of center consoles from Cigarette Racing Team. Not only does Szolack, who spend summers in Michigan and winters in South Florida, currently own a 2018 model-year […]
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In the high-performance center console world, it’s fair to say that Midnight Express pioneered the now-popular, exotic-boat-and-automobile display. The Miami-based company has been pairing such luxury products for the better part of two decades, and it will again at the upcoming Miami International Boat Show set for February 15-19. Coming to the 2023 Miami International […]
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With 15 teams committed to running at least some portion of the seven-race 2023 Super Stock-class owners group internal schedule, fans of the outboard-engine-powered spec catamaran category will not want for offshore racing action this season. The group released its schedule this afternoon via social media, and it includes the following dates and events, five […]
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Although Kathy Latham was as spirited as ever while working at her hometown event—the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show—at the end October, the remarkable woman behind Latham Marine was in the midst of an intense three-year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell in the bone marrow […]
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It’s no secret that delivery times for products from MYCO Trailers, a leading custom trailer manufacturer based in Bradenton, Fla., ballooned during the past two years. High demand and pandemic-spurred supply chain issues were the culprits, but understandable as those issues were they didn’t mitigate frustration from boatbuilders and their clients in need of custom […]
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Bold gelcoat colors have long been a staple of high-performance powerboats builds out West, so a molten-orange catamaran with a color-matched interior isn’t unusual. But the latest DCB Performance Boats M33R catamaran, hull No. 15 going to a buyer in the Tacoma, Wash., area, is proof positive that warm colors are alive and very, very […]
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Fans of Nor-Tech Hi-Performance Boats will not lack for options when it comes to checking out their favorite brand during the Miami International Boat Show set for February 14-19. The Fort Myers, Fla.-headquartered company is bringing five center consoles to this year’s South Florida happening, and will have them in three different locations. Nor-Tech will […]
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With South Florida as its home turf, Cigarette Racing Team always dresses its Miami International Boat Show exhibit to impress—and this year will be no exception. The Opa-Locka-based, custom high-performance powerboat company will showcase a 515 sportboat and two center consoles—a 42 Auroris and a 42 Nighthawk—in the Miami Convention Center during the February 14-19 […]
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Formerly Sea Isle Marina, the Venetian Marina and Yacht Club will host the in-water portion of the 2023 Miami International Boat Show, which is set for February 14-19. Among those exhibits will be Performance Boat Center’s typically robust display of high-performance offerings. Products on display at the docks from the multi-brand, high-performance powerboat dealership, which […]
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Savvy enough to recognize opportunity when it knocks, Florida Powerboat Club head Stu Jones launched a boat show of his own when the 2021 Miami International Show was cancelled and is bringing it back this year—albeit it in a smaller format—as part of the club’s Miami Boat Show Poker Run. But the display for the […]
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Though the MTI won’t pull the sheet off a new model during the Miami International Boat Show—after all, the Wentzville, Mo., company introduced its 440X catamaran just two months ago—there will be plenty of eye-candy for fans of the brand during the February 15-19 event. The custom high-performance powerboat builder will display V-50 and V-42 […]
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Though racing fans will have to wait until the 2023 Offshore Powerboat Association Englewood Beach Waterfest World Championships, set for November 17-20, to see it on the racecourse, a new 30-foot Superboat Y2K model is under construction for Bracket 500-class competition. The open-cockpit V-bottom, which primarily will be rigged by Jason and Johnny Saris at […]
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Legendary tennis star Rafael Nadal—a 22-time Grand Slam champion—of Mallorca, Spain, has committed to backing a Union International Motonautique E1 World Championship Series team. The UIM and Powerboat P1 announced the news in a press release issued this morning. Billed as the “world’s first all-electric raceboat championship,” the series is slated to begin this year, […]
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When the Florida Powerboat Club Winter Poker Run fleet departs the Miami area bound for Key Largo later this month, a predominantly silver, 38-foot Cigarette Top Gun V-bottom will lead the pack, at least at the start. The 2000 model-year 38-footer, which is owned by Florida Powerboat Club president Stu Jones, is far from the […]
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Neither the Buffalo Poker Run in Western New York nor the Erie Poker Run in Pennsylvania happened in 2022. At the heart of the cancelations were limited venue availability and skyrocketing lodging rates as summer travel surged in the post-pandemic year. Both events are coming back this year—the Erie Poker Run May 26-27 and the […]
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Offered by Performance Boat Center at its Hollywood, Fla., location, this 2021 MTI 390X catamaran is powered by two Mercury Racing 450R outboard engines with 100 operating hours. According the listing, the engine warranties are good until June 1, 2024, and also can be extended. Electronics in the eight-seat, carbon-fiber 39-footer include Garmin 8617 and […]
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Earlier this week, M CON offshore racing team owner Tyler Miller and his wife, Lindsey, paid a visit to Skater Powerboats in Douglas, Mich., for a cockpit “fitting.” The hull and deck of their new Class 1 Skater 438 catamaran, which will be powered by class-spec Mercury Racing 1100 Comp engines, were joined earlier this […]
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The owner of the V-Extreme-class Knucklehead Racing team, Ed “Evil” Smith is a strong and patient man. For the past several seasons, he’s run his 40-foot Fountain raceboat uncontested at offshore races around the country and put on a show regardless—all while battling beating cancer without complaint. Despite that the class had withered to one […]
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Though the 2022 season was a one-and-done for the Southwest Florida-based Justice League Super Cat team, fans enjoyed seeing the colorful Skater Powerboats 388 catamaran on the racecourse, however infrequently. Now the 38-footer, which formerly ran as STIHL and later Gone Again, has a new owner. Well-known performance-boat owner Beau Renfroe of Atlanta has purchased […]
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After sending out an email to let previous purchasers of the annual Speed On The Water Year In Review magazine know that this was the last week to order the 2022 edition and get the 196-page issue hot off the presses and shipped directly from the printer, I received several nice replies thanking me for […]
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