<!– 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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<!– New Products: Outboard-Powered Skater 388 No. 1 Works ‘Perfectly’ In First Season –> Minus his new Skater Powerboats 388 catamaran powered by Mercury Racing 450R outboard engines—the first 388 to be equipped with outboards—Steve Bareman of Michigan will be in Key West, Fla., next week for the offshore world championships. Bareman knows he’ll miss […]
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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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<!– Racing: 450R Factory Stock Class Coming To Key West With Five Teams –> The largest fleet in the relatively short, two-year history of the 450R Factory Stock catamaran class, which was spearheaded by MTI principal Randy Scism, is gearing up for the Race World Offshore-produced American Power Boat Association/Union Internationale Motonautique Offshore World Championships […]
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<!– In the News: Teasers Tour To Wrap Up At Key West Home Base –> The owner of Maryland Offshore Performance Marine Center, Andy Imof is amped about the upcoming Florida Powerboat Club Key West Poker Run, the final stop in the successful second-year “Teasers Tour.” That’s not just because multi-stop tour features his 36-foot […]
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<!– New Products: New Star Wars-Themed Skater 368 Is Out Of This World –> Unless you’re a diehard Skater Powerboats fan in desperate need of another hobby, it may surprise you to learn the Douglas, Mich., company has its fifth Skater 368 model catamaran powered by twin Mercury Racing 450R outboard engines in production. Three […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: Your Friendly Neighborhood Fountain –> Captured by contributing photographer Jeff Helmkamp during last Saturday’s Performance Boat Center Fall Fun Run on the Lake of the Ozarks, a photo of a colorful—and not-so-strangely familiar—Fountain Powerboats 42 Poker Run Run Edition sportboat caught our eyes. The 42-footer powered […]
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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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ONAMIA, Minn. (Sept. 13, 2022) – Pro Alton Jones, Sr., of Lorena, Texas, caught 12 scorable smallmouth bass weighing 47 pounds, 15 ounces to cruise to an easy Qualifying Round win for Group B at the MLF Bass Pro Tour Bally Bet Stage Seven on Mille Lacs Lake Presented by Minn Kota in Onamia, Minnesota. […]
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In any given year, Waves And Wheels in Osage Beach, Mo., produces a few gatherings on the Lake of the Ozarks for its loyal customers and vendors. Among the most popular of these is the company’s End-Of-Summer Fun Run, which is set for this Saturday and will start and finish at the company’s thriving facility […]
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In the biggest Qualifying Round comeback in Bass Pro Tour history, Tuskegee, Alabama, pro Mark Daniels, Jr., boated 20 scorable bass weighing 79 pounds, 12 ounces, to overtake Day 1 leader Arizona’s Josh Bertrand and win the Group A Qualifying Round Monday at the Major League Fishing (MLF) Bass Pro Tour Bally Bet Stage Seven […]
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From mid-May through the late August, the Lake of the Ozarks is flush with exceptional go-fast boating events—from Performance Boat Center’s Spring Fun Run and Outboard Fun Run to Big Thunder Marine’s Support Our Troops Poker Run and Baja, Donzi and Fountain Fun Run—all in advance of the annual Lake of the Ozarks Shootout. But […]
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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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PHOTO COURTESY OF VISION MARINE On August 28 at the 24th Lake of the Ozarks Shootout in Missouri, Vision Marine set a world record for the fastest electric boat. The V32, created in partnership with Hellkat Powerboats, reached a top speed of 109mph, beating the previous record of 88.6mph set by Jaguar. Designed from the […]
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Attendees of last week’s Lake of the Ozarks Shootout On The Strip presented by Waves and Wheels at the popular Central Missouri lake were treated to a first look at the new Doug Wright Powerboats 38-foot canopied catamaran built to compete in offshore racing’s newest class, 450R Factory Stock. Powered by twin Mercury Racing 450R […]
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