Locals and visitors strolling the docks at Sailfish Marina in Palm Beach, Fla., tomorrow morning will be treated to a brand-specific high-performance boat show thanks to Mystic Powerboats and 15 of its adventurous clients. The full-service marina is the departure point for the second year Mystic Powerboats owners trek to the Bahamas. The latest Mystic M5200 center console will lead the pack. The second-year Mystic owners run to the Bahamas starts tomorrow. Photos from the 2023 event courtesy Mystic Powerboats. “This is the sixth one we’ve built and it has the new bigger cabin,” said John Cosk ..read more

Launched in 2015, the annual Performance Boat Center Spring Fun Run signals the start of the Lake of the Ozarks event-season for the MTI, Performance Powerboats and Sunsation Powerboats dealership in Osage Beach, Mo., as well as its family of customers. The full-service dealer produces the Rendezvous for Cigarette Owners, the Outboard Fun Run, Lake of the Ozarks Shootout Thursday Night Welcome Party and the Fall Fun Run each year. In April, it produced its first Boat Show and Open House and the event was so strong that the Performance Boat Center team plans to produce it annually. Friends and ..read more

Saxdor has given us a sneak preview of its largest model yet – a 46ft flagship called the Saxdor 460 GTC. Like the smaller Saxdor 400 GTC, it features a full-width wheelhouse with sliding side doors leading out to a pair of extra long drop-down balconies. These extend around a third of the length of the boat and feature large glass inserts, giving views of the water both when upright and folded flat. In the down position they will be at the same level as the saloon floor, extending the deck area and allowing guests to walk in and out of the side doors as well as the main rear door. It’s not c ..read more

Back in 1966, 20th Century Fox reached out to executives at Austin, Texas based Glastron. ABC’s Batman had been a runaway hit and now a feature length movie was planned. Batman’s crown jewel was the fire-breathing Batmobile—built by the iconic George Barris. Batman’s producers hoped Glastron President Bob Hammond and Designer Mel Whitley might design something as cool as the Batmobile. With a Glastron Crestflite 174 SuperSport sterndrive, masking tape, cardboard and fiberglass, her build took a mere 31 days. She boasted Bat-Dar, Bat-Radio, Bat-Ray, Bat-Depth-Charges, Bat-Rocket-Propulsion and ..read more

Australian record-breaking solo sailor Lisa Blair will embark on a new World Record sailing attempt tomorrow, April 7th at 8am (NZST) to establish an Auckland to Auckland, New Zealand, sailing record over more than 2,200 nm on a circumnavigation not yet recorded. Only last month she set a fastest time record for Sydney to Auckland as the first woman and solo monohull record of 8 days, 3hrs and 19 minutes, taking over 4 days off the existing record, to be ratified by World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). Lisa will steer her yacht Climate Action Now from Westhaven Marin ..read more

The Pulsare 2400 BRX offers racy performance and handling. Courtesy Checkmate Powerboats Visit Checkmate Find a Checkmate Dealer Overview By adding a bow lounge to its closed-deck Pulsare 2400, Checkmate offers great performance, plus more seating, in the Pulsare 2400 BRX.  Engine During testing, noted throttleman and ­Checkmate general manager Billy Moore  wheeled the BRX to a 67.1 mph top speed. The BRX went zero to 30 mph in a respectable 6.3 seconds. Need more speed? Checkmate rigged a few BRXs with a Mercury Racing 500R that reportedly hit 90-plus mph. The 22-degree dea ..read more

Diego Botin’s young Spanish team executed flawless tactical decision-making to trounce season leaders New Zealand and Australia on the iconic waters of Bermuda’s Great Sound. An aggressive start saw Spain swerve behind the Aussies and Kiwis to pinch perfect start line positioning, with speed, and secure the all-important inside line to Mark 1. Despite the Kiwis breathing down their necks throughout, the Spanish stayed focused on the racecourse, splitting with Burling’s team at Gate 4 to pick up a 100m lead in the blink of an eye. The race defining moment however came at Gate 5, when the Spanis ..read more

The former president of Cigarette Racing Team and general manager of Mercury Racing prior to joining the famed high-performance sportboat and center console company, Erik Christiansen is now the vice-president of engineering at Mastercraft, a towed-mastersports boat-builder in Vonore, Tenn. Christiansen, who currently lives in the Miami-Dade County, will soon move to the area. An engineer from Wisconsin with a master’s degree in business administration from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University, Christiansen joined Opa-Locka, Fla.-based Cigarette Racing Team in 2019—the company’s 50th ..read more

The latest addition to BRABUS Marine’s most powerful range of 45-foot boats offers a blend of exclusive luxury, impressive performance and versatile space for relaxing on board. Featuring triple 400 HP Mercury Racing 5.71L v10 engines, the new Shadow 1200 Sun-Top delivers 1,200 horsepower with cruising speeds of 40 knots, and a top speed of 55 knots. Open up the dual electric sunroof over the helm to connect with the outdoors while enjoying the latest in technology at the functional helm, including an Intelligent Steering Module that controls the bow thruster, trim tabs and a ..read more

Navy Pier Marina has received all the permits necessary to begin construction this year, with plans to open in summer 2025. The new privately owned marina will offer transient mooring to boaters from Chicago and around the Great Lakes, including those completing the Great Loop. “We are very excited to bring this first-ever marina to Navy Pier,” says developer Randy D. Podolsky. “The marina brings water access to the iconic Navy Pier and the city’s core to boaters from a lake approach. Until now, Navy Pier has been inaccessible to waterborne tourists desiring access to everything th ..read more