For the first three days this week, Doug Wright Powerboats commanded the hallowed waters of Lake X, the historic Mercury Racing testing facility in St. Cloud, Fla. Veteran offshore racing throttleman Ricky Maldonado practiced on a buoy course with Logan Adan, his 17-year-old rookie driver, in a 38-foot 450R Factory Stock-class Doug Wright catamaran that […]
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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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With Super Stock-class Jackhammer throttleman Ricky Maldonado moving to the 450R Factory Stock class after three seasons with the Illinois-based team, owner/driver Reese Langheim had to find a new throttleman for the upcoming season. But he didn’t have to look far as Maldonado’s son, Julian, will throttle the team’s 32-foot Victory catamaran. The son or […]
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Thanks to extensive searching and traveling by one of the outfit’s newest members, Randy Kent, the American-based XINSURANCE/Good Boy Vodka team has upgraded its boat for competition in the 2023 Union Internationale Motonautique Class 1 World Championship produced by international powerboat racing promoter Powerboat P1. The team, which is owned by XINSURANCE’s Rick J. Lindsey […]
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Some of you may not know that Northeast Florida has some of the most fertile wahoo grounds in this great nation. But I’ll go one better — except for San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, I’d say this area has some of the most productive wahoo fishing in the world. I know some of you […]
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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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The owner of SLT Collection in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Scot Conrad goes back a long way—as in to Super V-class competition in 2003 and 2004—with offshore racer Michel Karsenti, who has come out of retirement from the sport to compete in the 450R Factory Stock class in a 38-foot Doug Wright Powerboats catamaran. A few […]
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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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Unveiled at the 2012 Miami International Boat Show, the MTI-V 42 center console began the Wentzville, Mo., high-performance powerboat builder’s eventual reinvention. Founder Randy Scism, his wife, Cherell and their team had made a formidable name for the company in the go-fast pleasure and offshore racing catamaran worlds, but those categories had cooled dramatically. So Scism […]
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Just two offshore racing seasons ago, Taylor Scism was a novice driver in an exhibition class. Now she and throttleman John Tomlinson are the 2022 American Power Boat Association national champions and Union Internationale Motonautique world champions in the 450R Factory Stock class she spearheaded in the first canopied MTI 390XR catamaran powered by Mercury […]
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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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Pickwick Landing State Park to host first annual Minn Kota and Humminbird Owners Tournament on historic Pickwick Lake. RACINE, Wis. (Feb 6, 2023) –– The Minn Kota and Humminbird brands have been trusted by anglers forever, and now it’s time to gather those anglers for a big bass shootout on the historic Pickwick Lake. The first […]
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It’s been a busy winter for most everyone in the performance boat industry and Justin Wagner is no exception. In reality, the Waves and Wheels owner who opened a marina—the Boardwalk Waves and Wheels—a few years ago on his home waterway, Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks, has been busier than most. Missouri’s Waves and Wheels […]
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When we invited MTI founder and owner Randy Scism to be part of a new video series we are producing for Mercury Racing, the first episode of which will air in March, he had one request. He needed to be out of our makeshift studio last week in Fond du Lac, Wis., for last week’s […]
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Of all the high-performance “theme boats” that were built in the 2000s, precious few stood the test of time, much less commanded top dollar at resale. That’s because no matter how well-executed—and no builder has been better at creating them than MTI in Wentzville, Mo,—theme boats are hyper-personal expressions of a given owner’s tastes, sensibilities […]
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In 2004, Powerboat magazine assigned me a profile story of an up-and-coming boat builder. His name was Randy Scism, his Missouri-based company was called Marine Technology, Inc., and it offered one boat, a 42-foot catamaran with sexy hips. A lifelong lover of speed on the water, Scism learned his craft as the general manager and […]
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I almost didn’t believe it myself when Louisiana performance boater Nate Michel informed me in confidentiality a few weeks ago that he was selling his beloved Cloud IX, the “movie star” 40-foot MTI catamaran he had completely redone several years ago. It’s hard to believe, but Nate Michel of Louisiana sold Cloud IX, his incredible 40-foot MTI […]
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After an eventful and enduring first year competing in the 2022 Union Internationale Motonautique Class 1 World Championship produced by international powerboat racing promoter Powerboat P1, the XINSURANCE/Good Boy Vodka team has its sights set on a strong 2023 season, which should see at least a half-dozen teams in the class. To enhance the team’s […]
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The inaugural Western Bass Shootout (WBS) The inaugural Western Bass Shootout (WBS) has been finalized and is scheduled for April 14-16, 2023, on the Famed California/Sacramento River Delta. The unified championship event invites the top-performing anglers from the four major professional tours in the Western United States. APEX Pro Tour, Major League Fishing Toyota Series, […]
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In the high-performance center console world, it’s fair to say that Midnight Express pioneered the now-popular, exotic-boat-and-automobile display. The Miami-based company has been pairing such luxury products for the better part of two decades, and it will again at the upcoming Miami International Boat Show set for February 15-19. Coming to the 2023 Miami International […]
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