MTI At 25—Spooled Up Twice

Arguably the coolest matched-theme pair of MTIs ever created, Spooled Up, a 52-foot catamaran, and Spooled Up Support, an MTI-V 42 center console, were commissioned by Craig and Kim Hargreaves of Washington. Their unforgettable painted graphics were created by the ferociously talented Mark Morris of Visual Imagination in Peculiar, Mo. It is some of his […]

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Kuttawa Cannonball Run Organizers Setting Hard Stop For Online Registration

Ask any high-performance powerboat event organizer what makes the job most challenging and you’ll get the same answer: last-minute registration. Participant sign-up procrastination/indecision makes booking hotel-room blocks, setting up meals and even ordering event-themed T-shirts difficult, especially at is applies to planning and cost control. Organizers of the seventh annual Kuttawa Cannonball Run are expecting […]

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Outerlimits Opens Registration For 30th Anniversary Fun Run

Started by Mike Fiore in 1994, Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats has been quietly celebrating its 30th anniversary in a way its late-founder would appreciate—by building breathtaking high-performance V-bottoms and catamarans. In fact, the team at the Bristol, R.I., company has been so focused on the work at hand that the details of the Outerlimits 30th Anniversary […]

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Performance Boat Center Spring Fun Run On Tap This Weekend

With 70-plus boats signed up as of yesterday evening and more on the way, there’s an excellent chance that Performance Boat Center’s Spring Fun Run will eclipse last year’s total of 96 registered boats. The annual Saturday happening is the event season-opener for the MTI, Performance Powerboats and Sunsation Powerboats dealer headquartered in Osage Beach, […]

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Skaterfest Headed To Texas In 2024

Since 2011, a select group of Skater Powerboats catamaran owners has met each August for one long weekend in the Detroit Metro area to celebrate the famed brand. (The exception, of course, was pandemic-flattened 2020.) Skater fans such as California’s Dale Rayzor and Chris and Sam Ryder of New York have hauled their boats from […]

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Fun Run To Benefit Sarasota Charities For Children

Though the Sarasota Power Boat Grand Prix and Suncoast Charities for Children—the Southwest Florida event’s former longstanding beneficiary—amicably parted ways a couple of years ago, the two are forever linked by history. Sarasota remains a high-performance powerboating hotbed and the supporting the nonprofit charity is woven into that legacy, as well as the fabric of […]

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The Wozencraft World Tour Continues

Dubbed the Wozencraft World Tour in 2018 by yours truly—not terribly clever but the best I had at the moment—California-based insurance man Devin Wozencraft’s tradition of hauling his 30-foot Skater Powerboats catamaran to events around the country is coming back this year. His annual trek is boots-on-the-ground, guerrilla marketing in its purest form, but his […]

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Brawny V-Bottom Sportboats To Rule At Orange Beach Powerboat Week

For sterndrive-power purists, the seismic shift to outboard engines—and the continually growing number of go-fast catamarans and center consoles equipped with them—has been a source of endless chagrin. But while the decline in sterndrive engines as power sources is undeniable, it is not absolute. Sterndrive-engine-powered V-bottom sportboats account for half the fleet in the upcoming […]

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Sunsation Sun Run At 130 Registered Boats—And Counting

The primary organizers of the inaugural Sunsation Sun Run celebrating the Algonac, Mich., high-performance center console company’s 40th anniversary in 2022, national sales manager Ryan Wenk and now-former marketing director Brad DiMaggio knew the event would be well-attended. And with 60-plus registered entries in the final mix, they were correct. Brand loyalty comes with the […]

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Texas Outlaw Challenge Registration Open

Celebrating its 16th year of attracting performance-boat enthusiasts from around the country to the Lone Star State, the Texas Outlaw Challenge, set for June 21-25, opened registration yesterday. The host cities of Kemah and Seabrook are already gearing up for the action, most of which happens on Clear Lake and Galveston Bay. The Texas Outlaw […]

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Dekrone Finds ‘Niche’ With Sunset Boats Sales

Two years ago this month, Tom and Tracey Dekrone were recruited to take total strangers for rides in their new Mystic Powerboats M3800 catamaran. The occasion? A media event showcasing Mercury Racing’s addition of its Advanced Mid-Section to its 300R outboard engine head at Captiva Island, Fla. Then based in Long Island, N.Y,, but spending […]

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Personal Photo/Video Shoots Returning To Desert Storm And Super Cat Fest West

A frequent contributor to speedonthewater.com, Speedboat magazine and even Mercury Racing for marketing and media images, photographer Tom Leigh of Tommy Gun Images in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., has built his reputation on capturing outstanding shots of high-performance catamarans, center consoles and V-bottom sportboats. Though the affable, easygoing shooter is best known for his photos […]

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