Image Of The Week—Equal Time For Outboard-Haters

Forget for a moment that outboard engines have kept the high-performance powerboat industry alive for the past 15 years. Forget there isn’t a current go-fast boat-builder who would argue that painfully obvious point. There always will be a tiny faction of folks on the consumer and producer sides who recoil at the sight of outboards on anything other than a fishing boat.

Dave Stepanek ran his rare inboard-powered Nor-Tech 420 Monte Carlo in last Saturday’s Fort Myers Offshore lunch run. Photo by Eily Perez copyright EP Pro Media.

And god bless them—they have the right to hold and express their delusions in whatever nonviolent way they choose.

Titled “Nor-Tech At 35—Talking Flyers,” an article that ran last Thursday provoked Pavlovian responses from a few devoted members of the anti-outboard club. Like the models of Nor-Tech Monte Carlos, most Flyers have been with customer-chosen outboards. Precious (if that’s the right word) few have been done with inboards.

But lo-and-be-freaking hold, I spied one during last Saturday’s Fort Myers Offshore lunch run to Three Fisherman Restaurant in North Naples, Fla. There haven’t been many Monte Carlos or Flyers built—period—and most left Nor-Tech with outboards. That makes one with inboard power a unicorn. So I called my friends Henrik Margård and Geoff Tomlinson at Nor-Tech to learn more about it.

The boat is a 2013 model-year 420 Monte Carlo owned by Dave Stepanek. The 42-footer is powered by twin 420-hp Yanmar diesel engines.

Consider this equal time granted.

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