Who’s Ready For The Head-To-Head Mystic Show?
If all goes to plan, the reigning Lake of the Ozarks Shootout Top Gun champion, the 51-foot American Ethanol catamaran should have some actual competition at the Central Missouri event set for August 23-24. That it will come from another Mystic Powerboats catamaran of similar size makes the likely top-speed showdown even more dramatic and compelling.
Mystic versus Mystic, turbine power versus piston power, record-holding Shootout throttleman versus record-holding Shootout throttleman—any way you look at it, the 2025 Lake of the Ozarks Shootout could produce a battle for the ages. Photo by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix.
As reported in February, the 50-foot Spirit of Qatar Mystic cat—the fastest boat in Shootout history with a 244-mph pass in 2014 on the then-mile-long course—powered twin 3,800-hp T-55 turbine engines is now the property Ohio-based Darryl Cuttell, who bought the cat from Steve Curtis. Just as he did in 2014 alongside Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al-Thani of Qatar in 2014, the multi-time offshore racing world champion plans to throttle it in the event alongside the new owner.
Powered by four supercharged engines combining to make 8,000 hp, American Ethanol is no slouch. During the 2024 Shootout, Mystic Powerboats founder/throttleman John Cosker and driver Tony Battiato piloted the 51-footer to 221 mph on the now-three-quarter-mile-long course.
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