As I tend to do at least once a month, earlier this week I checked in with Justin Wagner of Waves and Wheels in Osage Beach, Mo. He was nowhere near his marina located at mile marker 26 on Lake of the Ozarks, but the timing couldn’t have been better as he was sitting with his good friend and a longtime project partner, Andy Imhof, who owns Maryland Offshore Performance Marine Center in Rockville, Md. The two were at Imhof’s shop hashing out ideas and timelines for upcoming projects on an almost 15-year-old 42-foot Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats V-bottom and the 1987 41-foot Apache Powerboats wave-crusher Scalp Hunter, a restoration Wagner and Imhof are beyond excited about—the same boat I wrote about in my column nearly a year ago to the day (read the story).
Waves and Wheels’ Justin Wagner (left) and Idel Binet (right) spent a few days with Maryland Offshore Performance Marine Center’s Andy Imhof (second from left) and Mitch Kramer working on Wagner’s Skater at Imhof’s shop. Photos courtesy Justin Wagner