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Cigarette 31’ Bullet Project: Restoring The Restored
Imagine coming home after a long shift as a process operator at your local uranium enrichment plant. Tired from your day on the job, you stroll to your workshop and boat-storage garage to admire your...
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Repowered Turbine Mystic Cat Ready For First Sea Trial
A turbine engine-powered, canopied C5000 Mystic Powerboats catamaran built in 2010 should be back on the water this week. That’s the word from John Cosker, the owner and founder of the DeLand, Fla.,...
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Inside The World’s Fastest Formula 400SS
In the automobile and powerboat worlds, a “sleeper” is a vehicle or vessel that’s sneaky fast—something that lulls you to sleep until it blows right by you. And that’s exactly what Robert Winoski of...
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One Cool 292: BRP Gives 29-Foot Formula A Stunning Makeover
It took the better part of a few winters, but Dan Stordahl appears to be quite happy with the Formula Boats 292 FAS3Tech sportboat he refurbished after buying the 29-foot twin-engine V-bottom from his...
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The Ultimate Project Boat
For the record, as a longtime reporter covering the high-performance powerboat market I believe you have to be a little nuts—maybe even more than a little—to own a turbine engine-powered boat. When I...
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An Apache Dream Project
Anyone who pays attention to what I write about on OffshoreOnly.com and Speedonthewater.com knows that I’ve done a lot of stories with Justin Wagner of Waves and Wheels throughout the years. To be...
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Project: The Unlimited Rewards Of Unlimited Patience
In a Fort Myers Offshore fleet stacked with performance center consoles and a few go-fast catamarans, Bill Foresnki’s 2008 Cigarette Racing Team 39 Top Gun Unlimited sportboat stands out. That’s not...
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Project: Nor-Tech Catamaran Topping 120 MPH With Quad Verado 400R Outboards
Participants in last week’s Florida Powerboat Club Miami Boat Show Poker Run got an up-close and personal look at something unique during the event—a 36-foot Nor-Tech catamaran powered by four Mercury...
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Creating The New Tilt: Boat Customs Makes Over 40-Foot Skater
If you know dedicated performance boater Ed Tirakian of Michigan, chances are you know his boat Tilt. Although which Tilt you know is the next question, as Tirakian has owned several go-fast catamarans...
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Welcome Back, Tommy Bahama
Back in the heyday of APBA Offshore, LLC—call it the early 2000s—no Super Cat-class raceboat was more popular with offshore racing fans than Tommy Bahama, a 44-foot MTI catamaran built in 2001,...
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Cigarette Restoration Trifecta
In a typical off-season—meaning winter—Team Saris Performance Marine in Bolton Landing, N.Y., has to lay off a couple of employees. But this year, thanks to an influx of powerboat restoration and...
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Project Raindance: Inside The Restoration Of A Modern Apache Warrior
Sometime in the mid-2000s, Andy Imhof of Maryland Offshore Performance Marine Center decided it was time to tackle a signature project that showcased the entire range of his Rockville-based company’s...
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Swoop Motorsports Tests Hustler 377 Talon Project Boat
The Southern California couple behind Swoop Motorsports spent last weekend testing its recently updated Hustler Powerboats 377 Talon and Travis and Summer Richardson couldn’t be happier with how the...
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Stephen Miles Design To Paint Cobalt
Like most folks who make a living in the high-performance powerboat world—this reporter included—Stephen Miles can’t afford the kind of new big-dollar custom V-bottoms and catamarans he dresses in...
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Skater 30 Prototype Repower And Renovation: Coming Full Circle
When Mercury Marine introduced its first supercharged six-cylinder Verado outboard engine—a 200-hp model—in 2004, rumor had it that next up was a 400-hp offering. Despite that Claus Bruestle, then...
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Brand X Gets Dirty Money Skater Looking Better Than Ever
There are a few reasons why Dirty Money—a 2015 Skater Powerboats 368 catamaran—is one of the more recognizable boats amongst the poker run community. First of all, the orange, black and white...
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PSI Racing Eliminator 25 Daytona All Set For Desert Storm Showcase
At the moment, Brendan Alvarez is somewhere in the middle of Texas about halfway between his home in Sarasota, Fla., and tomorrow’s destination—Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Alvarez, of PSI Racing, is...
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Taking Deja Blue To Another Level
Between interviewing Greg Dutka, a Colonel in the United States Army and the owner of a Sunsation Powerboats 32 Dominator SS, and Justin Wagner, the owner of Waves and Wheels and Bluave Marine Audio in...
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Florida Powerboat Club Announces ‘Project 1080’ Cigarette Paceboat Repower
As part of the Florida Powerboat Club’s 25th anniversary, club owner/founder Stu Jones announced a formal marketing partnership with Mercury Racing, which involves a full Mercury Racing stern drive...
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Sneak Peek: Boat Customs Reinvents Skater 30
In any successful makeover project, the main goal is for the object of affection—boat, car, kitchen, human, etc.—to come out looking better than the original. That’s not too difficult when something...
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