Mystic Powerboats should start delivering its M3800 luxury center consoles in June.
John Cosker and the crew at Mystic Powerboats in DeLand, Fla., have made solid progress on the new M3800, the 38-foot-long sister-ship to the M4200 luxury center console. The Mystic team recently completed the hull mold for the 38-footer, and work on the deck and hardtop tooling for the boat is well underway.
Earlier this week, speedonthewater.com reported that Swecat Racing—a team that competes on the Union Internationale Motonautique XCAT World Series circuit—has collaborated for the past sixth months with fellow Swedish company Mannerfelt Design Team to create a new canopied offshore racing catamaran called the Hypercat. Swecat also will offer an open-cockpit pleasure version of the carbon fiber vacuum-infused 31-footer, according to a press release issued this morning.
“Seating four people in a comfortable, yet safety-conscious way” provided a significant challenge for the design team, according to the release.
With their winter Christmas break beginning this Friday, Peter Hledin, Tony Cutsuries and the rest of the crew at Skater Powerboats in Douglas, Mich., are still pushing hard on a few projects. The company’s first catamaran to tap Mercury Racing Verado 400 ROS outboard engine power—in fact the first domestic model to be equipped with the spec engines for the X-Cat World Series of powerboat racing—is scheduled to debut at the 2017 Miami International Boat Show in February, as is a new 388 model with 1,100-hp Sterling Performance engines.
Spectre by Pilini (www.pilinimarinetechnologies.com) has introduced a new SS model for its 35’ center console. The 34’8” boat with a 9’9” beam has been upgraded with luxury items including granite countertops, a stainless-steel drawer-style refrigerator and a choice of synthetic-simulated teak flooring options.
Jay Pilini, the president of the Clearwater, Fla., company said that one of the biggest styling upgrades on the new model is the helm console and seat area. The 35 SS comes with side-by-side captain’s chairs that have tall backrests and side supports, plus foldup bolsters. They are finished with thick padding and two-tone upholstery.
DCB has another winner in its latest M29 catamaran with Mercury Racing 400R Verado outboard engine power.
Headed for display at the Barrett Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., three weeks from now, the latest DCB Performance Boats M29 catamaran powered by twin Mercury Racing Verado 400R outboard engines—and ordered for a customer in the Midwest by sales representative Scott Sjogren—hit 118 mph in testing yesterday. According to DCB’s Jeff Johnston, the 29-footer reached that speed with its 400-hp supercharged outboards turning 6,950 rpm.
An earlier DCB M29 with Verado 400Rs topped out at 114 mph. Johnston said he was delighted with the speed increase seen in the most recent build, as well as DCB’s partnership with Sjogren, who handles all outboard-powered DCB M29 sales in the Lake of the Ozarks area in Central Missouri and states east of that territory.
“We are extremely excited to have partnered with Scott and Greg Weber this past year,” said Johnston. “We’re ecstatic with their orders for their customers and the synergy we have with them going into 2017."
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For a closer look at the latest DCB M29, check out the slideshow above.
In addition to the M29, which will be delivered to its new owner after the auction, DCB will showcase 2016 model-year M41 and M35 catamarans—both powered by Mercury Racing 1350 engines—at the Barrett Jackson event.
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The only thing missing from yesterday’s delivery of a new Mystic M4200 luxury center console was wrapping paper. Photos courtesy/copyright Pete Boden/Shoot 2 Thrill Pix.
Late yesterday afternoon, Scott Sjogren and Greg Weber found themselves in South Florida’s Fort Lauderdale International Airport as they made their way back to their homes in the suburbs of Chicago in time to celebrate Christmas Eve with their families. Earlier in the day, they had delivered a new-for-2017 Mystic Powerboats M4200 luxury center console to Joe Gilmore and his family in Jupiter, Fla. A longtime client of Sjogren and Weber, Gilmore traded in a 35-foot Fountain sportboat as part of the deal on his new center console.
Besides wanting to wish all of our speedonthewater.com readers a Happy New Year today, we thought it would be fun to provide some good news to look forward to in 2017. Fortunately our friends at Eliminator Boats shared a couple of photos of the upcoming 28 Fun Deck that the Mira Loma, Calif., company is building with a hardtop.
Eliminator Boats expects to have its first 28 Fun Deck with a hardtop finished this spring. Photo courtesy Eliminator Boats.
Not the average transom you find on an Outerlimits.
Fans of high-performance powerboats will have to wait until the 2017 Miami International Boat Show in early February to get a complete look at Outerlimits’ new outboard engine-powered SL 41 sportboat. But thanks to the Bristol, R.I., custom boat company’s Dan Kleitz and painter extraordinaire Stephen Miles of Stephen Miles of Stephen Miles Design in Owensboro, Ky., we’re able to offer an early look at the 41-footer, which will be equipped with triple Mercury Racing Verado 400R outboards.
Miami Boat International Boat Show attendees will get the first look at the finished Sterling engine-powered 38-foot catamaran currently being completed at Skater Powerboats in Douglas, Mich.
Scheduled for a Miami International Boat Show debut next month, a new Skater Powerboats 388 catamaran will have a somewhat unusual pair of 1,100-hp fuel-injected powerplants from Sterling Performance Engines in Milford, Mich. According to Sterling principal Mike D’Anniballe, the 530-cubic-inch Dart-block-based engines with 4.5-litre Whipple superchargers were built with a number of high-end components from Sterling’s long-discontinued Union Internationale Motonautique Class 1 engine program.
With their holiday hiatus behind them, the staff members at Mystic Powerboats in DeLand, Fla., are back at work on the new M3800 luxury center console, as well as continuing production of the M4200 and gearing up for next month’s Miami International Boat Show. According to Scott Sjogren of Mystic Powerboat Sales, who supplied photos of the new 38-footer in its most current state, “the hull mold is 95 percent and the deck tooling will be finished in February.”
While Mystic built the tooling for the top of the M4200 by hand, the tooling for the M3800 was created using CNC technology.
Though the size of Sunsation’s next CCX performance-oriented center console has changed a couple of times since company owners Wayne Schaldenbrand, his brother, Joe Schaldenbrand, and their partner Jared Morris began discussing it almost a year ago, the Algonac, Mich., boat builder is still working on the project. According to Wayne Schaldenbrand, Vectorworks Marine in Titusville, Fla., will cut the plugs for what will be a 39-foot Center Console Xtreme with a 10-foot beam.
Of the eight Superboat Vee-class teams currently listed on the Super Boat International website, three run 30- to 32-foot raceboats built by Will Smith at Phantom Boats in Sarasota, Fla. With the introduction of a new deck for its 30-foot model, Smith is hoping that number will grow this year.
Smith said he should start building a deck mold from the new plug in a couple of weeks (click image for full frame).
With the original buyer who ordered Skater Powerboats’ new 478 V-bottom opting out of the purchase, the folks at the Douglas, Mich., custom high-performance boat company have decided to showcase the model at the upcoming Miami International Boat Show Feb. 16-19. The 47-footer, which is powered by Mercury Racing 1100 engines and boasts a custom Waves and Wheels interior with a Focal stereo system, will be in the water at the Mercury Marine docks.
Demo rides in the Skater 478 will be offered to qualified buyers during the Miami event.
In a contemporary nod to the 1980s television series that brought high-performance powerboats, electronic music and white linen jackets to America’s living rooms, FB Marine Group and Statement Marine have collaborated on a 38-foot Statement center console dubbed “Miami Ice.” Powered by triple Mercury Marine Verado 350 outboard engines, the boat will debut at the Miami International Boat Show (Feb. 16-20) at Miami Marine Stadium and Park on Virginia Key.
The graphics for the 38-footer were designed by Doug Harrell and executed using a Spies Hekker paint system.
Playfully dubbed "Miami Ice," this 38-foot Statement Marine center console pays homage to the "Miami Vice" television series. The boat will be on display first time at the upcoming Miami International Boat Show (click image to enlarge).
Not a man who leaves things to chance, New Jersey performance-boating community member Bob Christie has stayed in close contact with Teresa Sarnoff, his primary contact at Cigarette Racing Team in Opa-Locka, Fla., and Brett Manire of Performance Center, a Cigarette (and multiple brand) dealer in Osage Beach, Mo., on his new 39 GTS performance center console. The paintwork on the 39-footer is complete and its triple Mercury Marine Verado 350 outboard engines have been hung.
Christie’s new center console will be displayed with a host of Cigarette sportboats and V-bottoms—including the tenth Cigarette-AMG collaboration—at the boat builder’s docks during the upcoming Miami International Boat Show Feb. 16-20. Christie and his wife, Madelyn, as well as a few friends will get the 39 GTS on the water in the Florida Powerboat Club’s Miami Boat Show Poker Run a few days after the show. In the meantime, he plans to be in Miami to hop a ride with a friend for the FPC Winter Poker at the end of the month.
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Although he is eager to see and run the finished product, Christie said he has enjoyed watching the build come to life through photos sent to him by Sarnoff.
“The process has been great,” he said. “I can’t wait to see it on the 30th this month.”
Editor's Note: Speedonthewater.com will provide a gallery of images of the new Cigarette 39 GTS from the Miami International Boat Show.
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Said Coller, "I can’t wait to see it when it’s finished."
Earlier today, Tennessee-based performance-boat enthusiast Chad Collier met with Mystic Powerboat Sales’ Scott Sjogren and boat-painting star Stephen Miles at the Stephen Miles Design facility in Owensboro, Ky. For Collier, it was the first time he’d seen paintwork—still in process and slated for completion in mid-February—on his new low-profile Mystic C4400 catamaran, which will be powered by twin Mercury Racing 1350 engines.
Collier worked closely with Miles on what will be boat’s final graphics package.
After recently taking delivery and test running its new MTI 340X catamaran powered by twin Mercury Racing Verado 400R engines, the Wake Effects team in Osage Beach, Mo., is showing off the new 34-foot catamaran at the Overland Park Boat Show, which started Thursday and runs through Sunday (Jan. 29).
Wake Effects recently tested its new MTI 340X catamaran with twin Mercury Racing Verado 400R engines. Photos courtesy Blake Kelly
Minncraft Boatworks will unveil its Summit 26 Runabout during the upcoming Miami International Boat Show (Feb. 16-20). Powered by a 330-hp MerCruiser 5.7L engine, the 26-footer will be in the water at the docks (booth #560) in front of Miami Marine Stadium. According to a press release from the Miami-based company, the vintage-styled Summit 26 “was conceived with the idea to craft a collector’s showpiece.”
When Dan Kleitz of Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats announced in September last year that the Bristol, R.I., company’s goal was to break 100 mph with an upcoming SL 41 V-bottom sportboat powered by triple Mercury Racing Verado 400R outboard engines, his ambition was met with more than a little incredulity in the performance boating community. As it turned out, the 41-footer, which is owned by Michigan-based longtime Outerlimits customer Dave Burgess, did significantly better than that in its first sea trial today.
“No one believed it could go over 100,” said a clearly delighted Kleitz via a telephone interview this afternoon. “There you go, 105 mph.”
Not only is it going to have five models on display in the water at the Miami International Boat Show next week, the team at Global Marine Power, Inc.-the company behind Hustler Powerboats in Calverton, N.Y., and Checkmate Marine in Bucyrus, Ohio-is planning to show off a scale model of its all-new Hustler Shotgun, which was announced in a press release today.
Between Hustler Powerboats and Checkmate Marine, Global Marine Power will have five boats in the water at this year's Miami International Boat Show. Photo by Pete Boden/Shoot 2 Thrill Pix