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100-mph Chaparral Update: Drive Installation and Rigging Underway
Chris Uzzolina's ongoing restoration of a 23-foot 1986 Chaparral Villain sportboat has moved to the drive installation and rigging stage. A BMW mechanic and longtime powerboat owner who lives in...
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Inside Speed On The Water Digital Magazine: Project Pleasure
With help from Skater Powerboats, TNT Custom Marine and more, Gary Ballough turned a 2006 canopied raceboat into a sporty 32-foot pleasure catamaran. Photo by Pete Boden/Shoot-2-Thrill-Pix You might...
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Donzi 43 ZR Receives Waves and Wheels Treatment
Last summer Dre Trudell of Overland Park, Kan., purchased a 2007 Donzi Marine 43 ZR offshore V-bottom with a pair of Teague Custom Marine 975-hp engines coupled with No. 6 drives from Mercury Racing to...
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Broken Arrow Apache Update: At Marine Performance for Rigging
The restoration of Broken Arrow, a 47-foot Apache V-bottom, has reached its next phase with the boat's arrival yesterday at Marine Performance, the Port Orange, Fla., shop of famed go-fast race and...
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All Clear: Eliminator 38 Eagle Canopy Replacement
When Colorado performance boater Jon Wright purchased the 2004 Eliminator Boats 38 Eagle last year, he knew the boat needed a little TLC. Since that is Wright's forte—he owns Diamond Marine, a private...
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40 MTI Project: To Infinity and Beyond
In this OffshoreOnly world we're immersed in, the chances of a boat story gone bad resulting in a happy ending is slim. So it's always fun to share the ones that do work out. Take Brian Shelton's first...
View Article100-mph Chaparral Project Update: Interior Progress
Although Chris Uzzolina, a longtime powerboat owner and BMW technician in Charlotte, N.C., admits with a chuckle that he may have been "a little off" in his estimated completion date of May 2013 for...
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Broken Arrow Apache Update: Rigging Nears Completion
Started more than a year ago, the restoration of Broken Arrow, a vintage 47-foot Apache V-bottom built in 1991, has reached another milestone. Engine compartment rigging for its triple 1,200-hp...
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Friends Restoring Brad Smith’s First Go-Fast Boat
For Jeremy Strup of Joplin, Mo., the upcoming restoration of a 20-foot-long 1987 Liberator picklefork-hull boat he recently purchased is more than just updating a classic river and lake hot rod. The...
View ArticleHigh Risk Reborn
Longtime fans of offshore racing will remember High Risk, a 32-foot Skater catamaran that won multiple national and world titles from 1988—the year it was built—to 2005. Then owned and campaigned by...
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Project: Creating a 100-mph Chaparral
Chris Uzzolina, a 27-year-old from Morris County, N.J., is no stranger to speed on the water. His father owned a 24-foot Switzer Craft that topped 80 mph on Lake Hopatcong, the Uzzolina family’s...
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Project: Stinson Renovating 18-Foot Jetboat
Well-known in go-fast powerboat circles, marine industry veteran Sean Stinson is renovating and reassembling a 1978 Taylor SJ jetboat. Based in New Jersey, Stinson said he purchased the completely...
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Turbine-Powered 47’ Apache Ready For Testing
Testing of a fully restored 47-foot Apache V-bottom, the former INXS offshore race boat, could begin as early as tomorrow morning if all goes to plan. That’s the word from Gary Stray of AMF Offshore...
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Turbine Apache Update: First Run a Success
With one member of the AMF Offshore Rigging shop team on board, Scott Begovich, the throttleman for the Miss GEICO racing team, put a 47-foot Apache V-bottom the outfit recently restored and repowered...
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Turbine Apache Update: Mechanical Issue Forces Second Test Postponement
While weather forced Scott Begovich and the crew from AMF Offshore Rigging to cut short last Thursday’s first on-water test—and scrub Friday’s test session—of the turbine-powered 47’ Apache the West...
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100-mph Chaparral Project Update: Engine Dyno Runs Promising
The first dynamometer tests on a 427-cubic-inch engine that will power a soon-to be-restored 1986 Chaparral Villain III sportboat saw the powerplant produce more than 600 hp. That’s the word from...
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Turbine Apache Update: 100-mph Target Hit
After a few postponements, the turbine-powered 47-foot INXS Apache that’s been getting a complete makeover at AMF Offshore Rigging for more than a year hit the water today for its final test run...
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100-mph Chaparral Project Update: Major Hull and Deck Surgery Underway
While the 427-cubic-inch naturally aspirated engine that will be power Chris Uzzolina’s soon-to-be-restored 1986 Chaparral Villain III sportboat is getting prepped by White Performance & Machine...
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Project Update: Stinson’s Jet Boat Renovation
Proving there are hidden complications and delays in even small powerboat renovation projects, well-known offshoronly.com member Sean Stinson reported that when he removed the hull from the deck of the...
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Project Update: Broken Arrow Apache Graphics Chosen, Interior Gutted
After looking at more than 20 renderings by artist Chris Dilling of Grafik EFX, the new owner of the classic 47’ Apache Broken Arrow V-bottom selected a final version with elements from each drawing....
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