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Livorsi Marine, Inc. has obtained a license from Mercury Marine which allows us to combine DTS (Digital Throttle and Shift) technology with the options and quality of Livorsi controls.

Livorsi Smartcraft® Digital Throttle & Shift (DTS) controls provide smooth and safe shifting. Direct drive of ...

Editor's Note: The River Ranch 2013 was a huge success, thanks to Tom Foley and all of the hard-working and dedicated members that made this fantastic event possible. I will be posting photos from our coverage this week on the forums as well as the gallery so be sure to check back soon. I have also set up a gallery section for members to upload their own photos - you can visit that ...

Summer will be here before you know it, so now is the time to give your dash a face lift. Upgrading your dash is easier than you think with the Livorsi standard size or monster series Mega and Race Gauges. Each gauge uses a Deutsch connector to make the connection waterproof and a simple plug in application. ...

We spend a lot of time in validating our products. This is because we are responsible for entire propulsion systems – not just independent components. Everything (engines, transmissions, drives and propellers) must work together and be tolerant of each other. This includes oils and lubes. They are the system’s ...

By Rick Mackie, Mercury Racing

The 1650 RACE was the talk of the Miami Boat Show. Equally newsworthy was our release of 565 and 1100 sterndrives certified for use in the European Union (EU). The popular engines, packed with Mercury Racing exclusive components, meet the emissions requirements as set forth in the EU Recreational ...

Scream And Fly was founded back in 1998 with the idea to feature photos of boats that my friends were running at our weekly meet-up at Tanner Park on Long Island. Back then, in Scream And Fly's most basic form, this website was about featuring boats from our readers.

We began as a single-page basic HTML site on the free Angelfire hosting service. Originally, Scream And Fly had a very basic design and it was essentially a website for posting photos of Hydrostream boats. The ...

Seeing the amazing turn out from the Miami boat show has refreshed our spirits and we are ready to hit the water full throttle.

This year Livorsi celebrates 25 years of supplying the marine, industrial and automotive world with precision gauges and controls and we don’t intend on slowing down anytime soon.



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Experience, Custom, and Innovative: Three words that describe Hoss Marine Props.

The idea of working high performance propellers originated in the very successful early racing days of the Hoss Brothers; my father, Dave Bostic, pictured on the left with his Allison race boat and his older brother Glen on the right. (Circa 1965).

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By Rick Mackie, Mercury Racing

I just got back from the Miami Boat Show where, in addition to our unveiling of the awesome 1650 RACE sterndrive, I debuted the all-new Pro Max outboard propeller. Some of you may be familiar with the high performance 150/200/225 h.p. Pro Max outboards we produced back in the mid 1990s. ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published in 2002, however I felt that it is a very informative source for those of you that are interested in the Tunnel Boat Design Program. The current version is 7.15, and the latest enhancements to this fantastic software now include full vee-hull design capability. The full list of version 7.15 of the Tunnel Boat Design Program can be viewed here.

With winter fast approaching, boaters’ thoughts turn to winterizing and the dull, boat-less months ahead. It is during these months that we take the time to reevaluate our rigs, and think about changes for the next season. Many of us think of ways to extract every last ounce of performance from our rigs as we wait for the warmer weather.

Fortunately, ...

By Rick Mackie, Mercury Racing

It’s hard to believe a year has passed and the 2013 Miami Boat Show is underway. We’ve experienced some major events since our last visit to South Beach. Fred Kiekhaefer has moved on after 22 years of service. With Fred’s departure, Erik Christiansen has been named General Manager. Fred will continue to represent Mercury Racing over the ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. – Mercury Marine introduces its new intuitive-to-use VesselView 4 and VesselView 7 engine displays, designed exclusively for Mercury engines.

VesselView has long been recognized as the premier engine-information display system in the recreational boating industry. Several additional features ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. – Mercury Marine will introduce Joystick Piloting for Outboards to consumers Feb. 14 at the Miami International Boat Show.

Joystick Piloting takes the stress out of docking, maneuvering in tight spaces and operating in less-than-ideal environments by providing boaters 360-degree ...

Chine walking can arise with any high performance vee-hull. Chine walk is an aggressive, often rapid, side-to-side oscillation of the hull. Acute cases of chine walking grow more severe by themselves – called a “self-excited oscillatory instability”. Really severe cases can see the boat bouncing from one chine to the other chine – and some hulls can chine walk in the middle of a turn! It can be a scary ride for even the experienced pilot. So let’s explore the facts of “chine walking” – why it happens ...

Livorsi Marine is at the post and ready to Race at this years Miami International Boat show. Livorsi will be in full force sporting new products such as cable-less LED position Indicators, CAN Bus Vantage View Gauges and a complete line ...

The five finalists for our first photo contest of the year have been chosen and the voting has commenced! Narrowing down the photos to just five from all of those great submissions was not easy, however you will notice that each photo represents an aspect of what makes performance boating ...