In an announcement released Friday night, the organizers of the largest unsanctioned boat race in the United States of America—the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout in Central Missouri—publicized that they are teaming up with the Union Internationale Motonautique and the American Power Boat Association to add a kilo run to this year’s event, which takes […]
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Though offshore powerboat racers and their fans tend to focus on what’s on top of the water in the Florida Keys, there’s a whole lot more going on beneath it. That gave Larry Bleil, the president of Key West, Fla.-based Race World Offshore, an idea for his outfit’s season-opening 7 Mile Grand Prix, April 28-30, […]
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Earlier today, organizers of the popular Lake of the Ozarks Shootout in Central Missouri announced approved changes to the event’s largely unpopular no-wake restrictions, which were implemented several years ago. The 10-plus mile extended idle-speed zone east of the three-quarter-mile course at mile marker 34 is not going away altogether, rather the afternoon window is […]
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In the history of Marine Technology Inc. in Wentzville, Mo., the defining moment in terms of growth has got to be the company’s introduction of the MTI-V 42 performance center console powered by outboard engines, normally of the Mercury Racing variety. It marks the turning point in which MTI founder Randy Scism and his team […]
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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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If you caught the first two installments of “Speed On The Water Stories Of The Year” written by my speedonthewater.com partner Matt Trulio, you already know there was no lack of super-cool news to report in 2022. In the “spare time” I’ve had this week thanks to finishing pre-press production for the 2022 Year In […]
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Success means something different for everyone. No two measures of it are identical, right? For a long-time performance-boat owner, it can be building the most reliable and seaworthy catamaran of his dreams. For a go-fast boating event organizer, it can be raising a record amount of money for people who need help. For a boat-builder, […]
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So far this year, Speedonthewater.com has attracted 687,560 unique visitors who enjoyed a cool 3,246,084 page views per Google analytics. As remarkable as that traffic is for niche news site, what’s even better is that those numbers are tracked by Google—hence the designation. We can’t manipulate or embellish them. They are what they are. Some […]
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Members of the Dorris family and the Lake of the Ozarks community came together last Friday at First Baptist Church in Lebanon, Mo., to remember a boating industry legend, Jimmie Darrell “Jim” Dorris, the founder of PlayCraft Boats and Charger Boats who died at age 78 on December 9. Normally surrounded by family, PlayCraft Boats […]
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The last time an offshore powerboat race happened in Marathon—the midpoint in the Florida Keys—was in 2016 when both Super Boat International and its Unlimited class were going concerns. Both are fading memories now, but Marathon is more popular than ever as a go-fast boating destination thanks in large part to the popular Faro Blanco […]
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While marine industry veteran Bob Teague and announcer Rod Smith will still man the broadcast booth for the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout presented by Performance Boat Center next year, the 35th annual event will have a new production team. Powerboat P1, which holds the marketing and production rights to Class 1 offshore racing, will […]
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<!– Magazine: Inside SOTW Mag: Shooting For The Moon—And Hitting It –> Among the many stories that emerged from the 2022 Lake of the Ozarks Shootout in Central Missouri, two tales from different ends of the V-bottom ranks capture the essence of the annual event. On one hand you had Factory Billet’s Jim Schultz and […]
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<!– In the News: Mystic Bringing M5200 Center Console And More To Toys Tour –> If you’ve followed the Toys Tour, an annual powerboat-owner-fueled gift drive for children in need, you’ve probably noticed that new-model-year boats are in short supply. By the time the Palatka, Fla., event rolls around late in the year—December 2-4 this […]
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<!– In the News: Record Shattered! Lake Of The Ozarks Shootout Donates $625,000 –> It’s almost hard to believe that the charitable donations provided from the 34th annual Lake of the Ozarks Shootout in Central Missouri could possibly exceed the $445,000 total from 2021, but it did—by a lot. With dozens of checks adding up […]
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<!– In the News: Shotgun Wedding Hitches Key West To Lake of the Ozarks –> Open until November 17 when the winner will be selected and celebrated at Performance Boat Center in Osage Beach, Mo., a Lake of the Ozarks Shootout raffle for a sporting clay shotgun has taken a great turn. From now until […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: Happy Halloween From Mini Taylor Scism –> Based on the amount of times his Facebook post was shared and the 500-plus likes the share on our Speedonthewater.com Friends Facebook group received, you’ve probably seen the incredibly adorable images that Iowa’s Cody McDowell, the driver of the […]
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<!– People: The Full-Circle Journey Of Joel Begin –> On a sparkling Western New York day in mid-July 2014, Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats founder and then-owner Mike Fiore debuted a new SC 46 catamaran at the Buffalo Poker Run with Joel Begin, the canopied 46-footer’s French-Canadian owner. Among Fiore’s clients and friends who caught rides in […]
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Similar to what the team at Waves and Wheels did last summer after it finished the radical conversion of the Scalp Hunter Apache Powerboats V-bottom for longtime client Todd Crossley, Justin Wagner, the founder of the Osage Beach, Mo.-based marine audio, upholstery and fabrication shop, got together with his go-to video producer Andy Sievers to […]
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Although the on-the-go Alex Pratt and I crossed paths a few times during last month’s Lake of the Ozarks Shootout—he even hand-delivered me a Good Boy Vodka John Daly Cocktail, the brand new Iced Tea & Lemonade with vodka drink that is now available to purchase online, at the Performance Boat Center Welcome Party—we didn’t […]
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On any given weekend when they head to their second home in Osage Beach, Mo., Jim and Barb Unger of St. Louis know they’ll have a crowd to host. That comes with the territory of having three children, seven grandchildren and a whole lot of friends, and it’s why they bought a Sunsation 32 CCX […]
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