• Mercury Racing Blog: Fast Mercs – From Toronto to Miami

    By Rick Mackie, Mercury Racing

    It’s show time! The Toronto International Boat Show opened last night and runs for the next nine days. The Mercury booth features a beautiful OptiMax 200XS SST powered tunnel race boat that is sure to draw people into the booth. Tammy Wolf, a driver with the all female team who competed at the 2012 24 Hours of Rouen endurance race, will on hand to meet and greet fans.

    Meanwhile, in the frozen tundra of Fond du Lac, people at Racing and Mercury headquarters are busy preparing for the upcoming Miami International Boat Show. Mercury has a vast array of of exciting products to show and talk about. True to our Miami history, Racing will again have a few new things to share as well :-)

    This OptiMax 200XS tunnel race boat is front and center in the Mercury Marine booth at the Toronto International Boat Show.

    Miami is unique in that people can not only meet and greet manufacturing reps and see the latest products on static display in the convention center but they can also experience it on the water. Mercury Marine again will have a flotilla of outboard and sterndrive boats of varying design featuring the latest available technology from the world leader in marine propulsion.

    Racing, by default, usually draws the most interest purely by the size and performance capabilities of the boats featuring our power. We have an exciting mix of boats this year to attract a variety of interests.


    Marine Technology will unveil their all-new SV42 offshore center console. This is the first vee-bottom and first outboard boat from MTI. Performance reports of the prototype have been impressive. The first production unit, powered by quad Verado 300 outboards will be available for qualified prospects to experience throughout the show.

    Twin 565s equipped with a Stage 1 X-haust Noise Reduction system are featured in Velocity’s beautiful 390 vee-bottom. At the time of my writing this, the boat does 99.8 mph. You can bet it will have surpassed the magical 100 mph mark by showtime.

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