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Maryland performance boater Nick Eklund, who owns NRE Performance, never intended to build the “nicest Velocity on the water,” but after two-plus years of updates to his family’s 41-foot V-bottom from Velocity Powerboats in Sanford, Fla., Eklund and his wife, Kimi, may have done just…
Lake of the Ozarks Shootout fans, not to mention University of Michigan alumni, current students, faculty members and boosters across the country were naturally disappointed when the student-led team scratched its electric boat from the 2024 top-speed competition on the Central Missouri waterway. But the…
Two things had me eager to experience the 35th annual Battleship Run—the longest-standing continuous go-fast boating event in the country, at least that I’m aware of—this weekend in Upstate New York. First, I’d never done it before, and I’m on a mission this year to…
Since the day Stephen Miles purchased his MTI 340X catamaran from his dear friends Donnie and Cara McLeod in 2022, his other friends have been asking him when he is going to repaint it. It wasn’t that the 2017 model-year 34-footer then-powered by six-cylinder Mercury…
Just two open-cockpit, 32 Victory pleasure catamarans were built before the Victory 34 pleasure-cat was released in 2018/2019 and took over the pleasure segment for the famed Dubai-based raceboat builder. And both “32-footers” are owned by current Super Stock-class offshore racers. One belongs to veteran…
After competing in the Mod V class at the 2023 Race World Offshore world championships in Key West, Fla., in 2023, Travis Pettko decided he wanted a new boat. He had raced a 30-foot Phantom and knew what he liked about it. He was impressed…
When Ryan Haines and his family go boating, they don’t pile into the boat, run 10 minutes to a sandbar and sit there all day. They log serious time and cover some miles on their 45-foot Don Smith powerboat, Lady K, which is named for…
The founder and owner of MTI, Randy Scism hasn’t ridden in the updated and repowered version of the flaming-red canopied RP 40 catamaran he unveiled at the 2012 Miami International Boat Show. And unlike the group gathered tonight at the Midtown Sundries restaurant in Denver,…
A mechanic and machinist who lives in the Baltimore area, Ronnie Reynolds owns a 1995 model-year, 35-foot V-bottom from Sonic Boats USA. Reynolds is planning to campaign the conventional-hull, full-cabin sportboat at the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout, which is set for August 23-24 on…
Jeff Hoefling, one of the founders and organizers of this weekend’s ninth annual Kuttawa Cannonball Run in Kentucky, barely got a chance to show off the 2022 model-year Outerlimits SC 37 catamaran he bought from his pal Chuck Stark before weather moved in and shut…
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