With 100-plus registered boats and overwhelmingly rave reviews, any notions that a two-year hiatus would slow the momentum of the fourth annual 1,000 Islands Charity Poker Run in Clayton, N.Y., were immediately dispelled on that late-July weekend. As organizing committee member Renee Lalonde said, the happening returned “with a vengeance.” That was further evidenced yesterday […]
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Every Lake of the Ozarks Shootout—and we’ve covered the Central Missouri event for more than 20 years—has a different character. But you could sum up this year’s happening, which ended with today’s weather-abbreviated finale on the three-quarter mile course in one word. Massive. The 51-foot Mystic catamaran American Ethanol set a new three-quarter-mile course record […]
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<!– In the News: Scisms Set New Dam Challenge Record –> And just like that, there is a new Dam Challenge record-holding team at the Lake of the Ozarks. Driving her 450R Factory Stock-class MTI 390X raceboat, Driver Taylor Scism and her father, Randy, who throttled the Mercury Racing 450R outboard engine-powered 39-footer, completed the […]
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<!– In the News: Unexpected FASS Team Sets New Dam Challenge Record On Lake Of The Ozarks –> Although the 188-mile Dam Challenge record attempt that took place early this morning on Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks was originally going to be tackled by two boats—an MTI 390XR raceboat driven by Taylor Scism alongside her […]
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Last minute entry of the 2022 Dam-to-Dam Challenge Brad Ekstam , owner of FASS Fuel Systems, with his new carbon fiber Wright Performance 420 powered by twin Mercury Racing 450Rs, and joined by offshore racer and Performance Boat Center sales guru Rusty Williams, obliterated the standing record with an impressive 1 hour, 39 minutes, 23 seconds–besting the previous […]
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<!– Racing: Nailing the Setup At The PlayTradez Great Lakes Grand Prix –> After watching the Super Stock class race that included an outboard engine falling off a boat at the Play Tradez Great Lakes Grand Prix in Michigan City, Ind., veteran throttleman Billy Moore changed the setup for the Skater 388, Graydel, that he […]
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<!– In the News: Scisms And Millers Plan Dam Challenge Record Attempt As Shootout Fundraiser –> Inspired by last year’s unsuccessful Dam Challenge attempt that brought some added attention to the popular Lake of the Ozarks Shootout in Central Missouri, two local race teams are gearing up to tackle the 188-mile endurance run from Bagnell […]
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<!– Racing: Super Stock Rises In The St. Clair River Classic –> For the first time in the 2022 American Power Boat Association offshore powerboat racing season, the Super Stock class was under the spotlight for the right reasons at yesterday’s St. Clair River Classic presented my Magna, the fourth of eight races in the […]
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World champion offshore racer and 2022 Lake of the Ozarks Shootout Honorary Chairperson Taylor Scism has announced she will drive her MTI 390X Team Marine Technology in an attempt to set a new Dam-to-Dam Challenge speed record on the Monday morning of Aug. 22, prior to LOTO’s popular Shootout Week. Scism will pilot the boat alongside her father, MTI […]
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