With registration at $100 per boat this year, South Carolina’s 14th annual Hartwell Lake Charity Run, set for June 8-10, has to be the best value in domestic go-fast boating events. Because not only is it inexpensive by current standards for such happenings, it is by all accounts a fantastic event from the expansive waterway […]
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Back in the day, which loosely translates to a long time ago, the F-32 was the flagship of the DCB Performance Boats catamaran line. To own one meant more than having the second largest—and arguably best-performing—model in the El Cajon, Calif., company’s F-series center-pod creations. The 32-footer had significant cachet in the Colorado River go-fast […]
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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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When this story goes live, 2023 will be less than 24 hours away. In the meantime, a savvy group of performance boat owners and their friends from across the country have been making the best of what’s left of the current year in Southwest Florida. Yesterday’s lunch run to St. Petersburg and today’s planned fun […]
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For the past several years, a lunch run from Sarasota to Tampa has been the first of two casual, back-to-back events leading up to the annual Joey Gratton New Year’s Day Fun in Southwest Florida. But today’s lunch trek had a different destination, thanks to new organizer Scott Ryerson of Sarasota-based Suncoast Powerboat and Yacht […]
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Canadian Brad Macaulay’s relationship with DCB Performance Boats goes back more than 10 years to his first catamaran—an M31 Widebody powered by Mercury Racing 1100 engines—built by the El Cajon, Calif., company. To put it lightly, the Kelowna, British Columbia, resident loves the DCB brand almost as much as he loves the people behind it, […]
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<!– In the News: Speed On The Water ‘In The Lead’ Video Series Returning In 2023 –> Flashback from late 2020: Speedonthewater.com co-publisher Jason Johnson and I were driving back from a business meeting, meaning a mountain bike ride, when the idea for the Speed On The Water “In The Lead” documentary-style video series was […]
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<!– New Products: DCB Delivers M28R Catamaran No. 15 –> When DCB Performance Boats introduced the M28R Widebody catamaran in 2017, the boat was paired with then-white-hot Mercury Racing 400R outboard engines. And the El Cajon, Calif., company built seven of those 28-footers with supercharged 400-hp mills, which were the most powerful offerings in the […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: DCB Breaks Own Formation Record –> During the late-August Lake of the Ozarks Shootout and concurrent Super Cat Fest events in Central Missouri, eight DCB Performance Boats catamaran owners ran in a then-record-setting formation of models from the El Cajon, Calif., company. And speedonthewater.com chief photographer […]
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<!– New Products: DCB M37R Widebody Cat Takes Center Stage At Owners Regatta –> For the close-knit family of DCB Performance Boats catamaran owners around the country, participating in the El Cajon, Calif., company’s annual regatta, which began yesterday with 70 registered boat on Lake Havasu, means a lot. Though the two-day event include lunch […]
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<!– In the News: DCB Regatta On Tap With 70 Entries –> For the annual DCB Performance Boats Owners Regatta on Lake Havasu, 70 is looking like the magic number of entries. Sign-ups for this year’s event in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., have reached the 70-boat mark, the same number of DCB creations that showed […]
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<!– Magazine: Inside SOTW Mag: DCB M37R Widebody Catamaran Profile—Closer Together –> As two-time DCB Performance Boats catamaran owners, Steve and Kelly Marino of Auburn, Ala., knew they would love their third one, an M37R Widebody powered by two Mercury Racing 450R outboard engines. Impeccable build quality and performance were givens for the couple—the Marinos […]
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It’s apparent that the decision made by the Southern California-based organizers of the increasingly popular Catalina Fun Run to move the gathering back a few months and tack on an extra day at the Pacific Ocean island was a wise one as a recording-setting 60-plus boats registered for last week’s seventh annual event. A trio […]
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For the second year in a row, late-September date proved to be winner for Emerald Coast Powerboat Week in Destin, Fla., as last weekend’s Florida Powerboat Club-produced event attracted 92 registered boats. Club president Stu Jones moved the event from mid-August to late September in 2021, and that happening pulled in a solid 84-boat fleet. […]
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A six-time off-road racing champion, Bryce Menzies took delivery of his first DCB Performance Boats M37R catamaran powered by Mercury Racing 450R outboard engines in 2020. Now the famed Trophy Truck racer, who lives in Las Vegas, has ordered a second 37-footer. That provides a new opportunity for Stephen Miles of Stephen Miles Design in […]
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Starting with the late-February Florida Powerboat Club-hosted Miami Boat Show Poker Run in which two new catamarans from DCB Performance Boats took center stage—Mauricio and Angie Vivanco’s M44 Widebody and Greg Harris and Yvonne Alemán’s M37R Widebody—the team at the El Cajon, Calif., company, namely Tony Chiaramonte and Jeff Johnston, have been delivering boats and […]
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For all intents and purposes, there is one lunch-stop destination between Los Angeles and Honolulu—Catalina Island—and for the most part that explains why the Pacific Ocean off Southern California isn’t exactly a hotbed for recreational go-fast boating. But what a stop it is, and come September 23-25 a solid group of go-fast powerboat enthusiasts will […]
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With relatively cool weather, as in not 100-plus degrees, welcoming the participants to the 34th annual Lake of the Ozarks Shootout in Central Missouri on Saturday, the first day of the world-famous top-speed competition presented by Performance Boat Center went off safely, smoothly and successfully this year with 143 runs recorded on the three-quarter-mile course […]
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<!– New Products: Big Cat Delivery Of ‘Blowin’ Minds’ DCB M33R Widebody Excites New Owners –> When your new 33-foot, outboard-powered boat is being delivered at an event like the Big Cat Poker Run, with eye-popping high-performance hardware from the likes of Skater Powerboats, DCB Performance Boats, Eliminator Boats, Marine Technology Inc., and more, it […]
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DCB Performance Boats of El Cajon, CA, has delivered a walkthrough/open bow version of its M33R Widebody to Brett and Sheila Baur of Ogden, UT. The boat was delivered during this August’s Big Cat Poker Run. “It was a fun trip,” Baur tells Speedboat. “I’d never been there before, and got to run on the California […]
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