Looking toward the future with interactive ways to communicate with its readers, Powerboat magazine is also making the most of its 42-year heritage — all part of a new Web site from the “World’s Leading Performance Boating Magazine.”

Loaded with resourceful and entertaining features, Powerboatmag.com is now the ultimate complement to the print publication that has informed readers since 1968. From videos to blogs and breaking news, the site provides enthusiasts with their daily performance-boating fix.

In addition to a variety of stories and advice columns to read, users can check out more than 40 years of Powerboat covers, watch user-generated videos in the “Your View” video section and enjoy pictures from past and recent events in the Photo Gallery.

Perhaps the most resourceful tool on the new site for someone looking to purchase a boat (or for those interested in reading about past models), is the downloadable boat tests component. Visitors can search through more than 1,300 reviews from Powerboat’s Test Team from 1990-present.

Various industry leaders will regularly provide blogs looking at the changing industry. Along with the Powerboat editors, contributors include Steve David, driver of the world champion Oh Boy! Oberto hydroplane; Marc Granet, driver of the world champion Miss GEICO catamaran; Scott Shogren, owner of Shogren Performance Marine in Illinois; and John Tomlinson, Powerboat Test Team driver and TNT Custom Marine owner.

“Not only does the new site showcase the history of the sport, it gives our site visitors a look at the future of boating,” said Jason Johnson, Powerboat’s managing editor. “It’s a perfect companion to the print product.”

Powerboatmag.com will offer more exciting components in the near future, such as classic race photos provided by the Historic Offshore Race Boat Association, tips on what to look for when obtaining boat insurance and much more.

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Bio-Kleen Parked @ Captian Rons

Finally, the day had come to witness the largest unsanctioned racing event of the season. What started as a friendly battle among lake residents to see who had the fastest machine on the water has become known by many as the fourth holiday weekend of the summer. Today, professionals and amateurs compete against each other and clock their speeds for the Top Gun honor. Boats more than 22 feet in length are allowed to run in classes by length, hull design, size of motors and number of motors. Proceeds from the Shootout benefit the Lake-area rescue teams, Habitat for Humanity and other charitable organizations.

Mikes Thunder Marine @ Dock

The temperatures are the highest we’ve seen yet since heading into Missouri and the day looks like it should shape up to be beautiful, calm and sunny. The day is sure to be action packed. A majority of the buzz around the lake is of course centered around last years Top Gun winner; David Scott and his 50ft Mystic racer with throttle man John Tomlinson (then sponsored by Bud Light). The crowd is also quite intrigued to see if the Miss Geico boat will be on the list of competitors this year. The boat passed up the Shootout last year for another race, but up to this point has been seen as Scott and Tomlinson’s biggest competition.

Other Characters @ Shootout 2009

There’s also a lot of hype about a brand new addition to the Shootout, a head-on-head drag race; two boats running down the course at one time. One world class racer and well known lake member, Bob Morgan, is an advocate for the drag style boat race for the shootout. He’s finally gotten his wish for 2009 as race officials have approved the head-on-head competition. Bob Morgan himself in the Bad Moon Risin boat will go nose to nose with Bob Bull in the CMS boat. The talk is they’re scheduled for the best of three races.

Nauti Marine's Saturday Shootout Run

Dave Scott and Nauti Marine, 2008 Top Gun, holder of multiple world speed records, nearly a dozen national titles and almost as many world titles, is the team to try and beat this year at the Shootout. For the past eight years, Scott and all the Nauti Marine boats have raced under Anheuser Busch sponsorship. About this time last year InBev, the new owners of Anheuser Busch, announced they were no longer interested in sponsoring powerboat racing; which left the team looking for sponsorship elsewhere. Instead, Scott decided to race under his own Nauti Marine banner.

Last year Scott intended to race the Mystic fueled with methanol, but on the Thursday before race weekend a motor broke. So they spent the night changing the out the methanol motors back to gasoline. Obviously things did work out for them, still holding onto Top Gun status. They’ve still been testing methanol motors and plan on running the two 2,400-hp New Century alcohol-fueled engines for the Shootout this year.

The Nauti Marine boat seemed to be off to a great start on their first run on Saturday; but 2/3 of the way down the course something goes wrong. There’s a noticeable change in the sound of the motors and the output of the boat. They seem to blow another motor, but still finish the run with an impressive speed somewhere in the 160′s I believe.

CMS & Bad Moon Risin Drag

There was much more action for the day from the racers and the crowds. We captured video not only of the Nauti Marine first run, but impressive runs from Flight Club, the Mercedes Boat, D&M Motorsports, Mikes Thunder Marine, Shogren, Bob Bull and the CMS boat in a single run and the first drag between CMS and Bob Morgan in the Bad Moon Risin boat. CMS starts the head-to-head race out in front, but about mid way Bad Moon Risin easily coasts by. From our view it looks as if Morgan leaves Bull deep in his wake. Turns out it was close to a photo finish. The final details are debatable, but the word is this first race goes to Bob Morgan and Bad Moon Risin.

It was a great start to the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009. Beautiful weather, hot enough for the passengers of the hundreds of rafting boats to enjoy the water. Great speeds and action from the racers along with a few new twists. The opening day was not without its challenges though. There were multiple runs tainted with radar issues; forcing the racers to possibly fore-fit a great speed and run again later. There were also some staging issues, not allowing them to pack in all the desired runs for the day and sometimes moving at a slow pace in between runs.

Fire Rescue Team Lends a Hand

Then there’s the broken, wavy line of rafting boats that zig-zags the border of the entire course and then some. It’s really the only way to stay put safely with all those boats, but the number of boats with 30ft anchor lines in 75ft+ water definitely outweighed those that were prepared. Put that amount of boats and weight on not enough anchor and your bound to drag. And drag they did… into the course enough times the police and fire patrols had to discipline and assist the boats back out of the course boundaries or the race would not go on. Thankfully they do their jobs well and the spectators were very receptive. After all, everybody’s there to watch the boats and have a good time and if the boats can’t run there’s no race, and it’s all over for everyone.

Saturday had some smooth runs and good speeds, but there’s still a lot more in store for the final day of the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009.

• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Wednesday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Thursday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Friday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Saturday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Sunday
• Bio-Kleen Shootout YouTube Videos
• Bio-Kleen Shootout Flickr Pictures
• Bio-Kleen Facebook Pictures
• Bio-Kleen MySpace Pictures

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It did clear up a little for the day, but there was also a batch or two of slight sprinkles. The pokerrun had six stops: 1.Big Dicks, 2.The Fish & Co., 3.Dog Days, 4.Captain’s Galley, 5.Captain Ron’s and last and final stop 6.Franky & Louie’s where they would announce the winners. Each team received a card to be punched at each stop. Once everybody is back at Franky & Louie’s, contestants will draw seven cards, playing the best five card hand. Pokerrun committee chair Don Sylva said last years pokerrun attracted 105 boats. Sylva and co-chair Connie Weyer, who along with her husband Dave owns Advantage Marine in Sunrise Beach, hope to have 150-175 boats at the 2009 Shootout Pokerrun.

Biokleen had the honor of a special passenger for the Poker Run, Tamara, Miss Missouri. She was also kind enough to visit us back at the booth and give a helping hand. Be sure to vote for Tamara for Miss America.

Joy Schou and the crew from the Platinum Powerboat Club shacked up with us in the biokleen booth to sell T shirts for the Platinum Shootout Beach Bash that evening. Proceeds from the event support the areas local boy scouts. There’s also live music and free food and drink for attendees. The booth went extremely well for us to get the weekend started. After getting the booth closed up, it’s time to head to Franky & Louie’s to get our last cards and see who the winners are. Then back to Captain Ron’s for the Platinum Beach Bash. Tomorrow: everyone fires up their engines pursuing Top Gun status.

• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Wednesday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Thursday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Friday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Saturday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Sunday
• Bio-Kleen Shootout YouTube Videos
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The first goal for the second day at the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009 was to put up the Bio-Kleen vendor booth at Captain Ron’s. This is the second year the Shootout is put on by Captain Ron’s and spearheaded by the owner, Ron Duggan. Last year was great, so we knew this year would be even better and well organized (always a huge plus). It was easy to find the biokleen booth space, as we’re in the same spot as last year, F21; a cozy spot nestled in front of a large tree, right in front of dock 3, just on the corner of Cannonball Beach.

We got the tent and booth all set up and after some lunch, we’re off to several marinas around lake of the ozarks selling bio-kleen marine & rv products. We took the winding, narrow, down-sloping roads from high ground of highway 54 to the marinas at the lake. We made deliveries to Millers Landing, Bidgeview Marine and Village Marina. We also had some time to demo some new products with Village.  Then we dropped the Biokleen Toter off at Excess Detailin’ for a wash. By the time we picked the toter up it has been a very long day and the evening is fast approaching. We had to first pick up the biokleen boat from Bob Morgan’s shop, then get it in the water.

We proceeded down the even windier, extra narrow and slightly steeper “road” to the launch ramp by the Niagara Bridge.  We knew it may prove to be a difficult landing with the toter and much to our surprise we had some extra help when we arrived. Bob Morgan and the entire crew was there launching the Bad Moon Risin boat. It also started to rain at this point and by the time we got the boat in the water… it was a torrential down pour, with cracks of lightening and high gust winds. It was difficult enough driving a motorhome down a paved road back to the rv park; I was just imagining Tim on the lake, getting the boat to the docks at Captain Rons.

We made it by land, and by water, safely back to Captain Rons. It continued to rain, blowing down branches, washing out roads and pushing all the fresh sand at Captain Ron’s beaches back into the lake. We were all soaked… completely, and were only interested in getting out of our wet clothes, drying out and starting fresh tomorrow. The biokleen boat is a pace boat for the pokerrun and the vendor booths open up as well. The official start of the Lake of the Ozarks 2009 Shootout is finally here.

View more blog posts, video and pictures from the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009:

• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Wednesday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Thursday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Friday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Saturday
• Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Sunday
• Bio-Kleen Shootout YouTube Videos
• Bio-Kleen Shootout Flickr Pictures
• Bio-Kleen Facebook Pictures
• Bio-Kleen MySpace Pictures

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TOP V-Hull Professional Division: 136mph        Matthew Janssen-Driver, Dr. Michael Janssen-Throttle

TOP Cat Non-Professional Division: 171mph        Bill Pyburn

TOP V-Hull Non-Professional Division: 115mph        Jeff Becker

Top Cat Manufacturers Division: 159mph        Richard Prince

TOP V-Hull Manufacturers Division: 53mph        Mike “Gordo” Gordon

CLASS WINNERS     SPEED     DRIVER
PWC1     50     Alex Ashcroft
PWC2     67     Ron Wosel
PWC3     62     Louis Finigan
PWC4     63     Matt Clark
PWC5     79     Dan O’Keefe
MC4P2     159     Richard Prince
MP1S1     62     Carolyn Dorris
MP2S2     70     Jim Dorris
MV1M1     53     Mike “Gordo” Gordon
NC1P1     117     Larry Wiser
NC2F1     79     Phil Tremaine
NC2F2     99     Bruce Taylor
NC2M1     91     Danny McKinney
NC2P1     115     Warren Neighbour
NC2P2     139     Art DiNick
NC2S2     88     Aldo Waters
NC3F2     121     William Johnson
NC3M2     133     JD Onken
NC3P2     143     Greg Olson
NC4P2     171     Bill Pyburn
NC4S2     101     Bill Renzenberger
NC5P2     157     Gino Gargiulo
NC5S2     31     Timothy McNitt
NC6P2     153     Ronald Szolack
NCO1S1     81     Ralph Allison
NCO1S2     114     Zack Devier
NCO2M2     118     Jim Melley
NCO2S2     115     Steve Wallace
ND3S2     75     Lona Alexander/Bob Alexander
NP2P1     91     Ken Gouty
NV1F1     72     Jim Whittemore
NV1M1     84     Richard Pikul II
NV1P1     104     Leo Wiseman
NV1S1     67     Mark Fera
NV2F1     78     Howard Huntley
NV2M2     85     Brad Harrington/Jeremy Ressler
NV2P2     92     Jason Smith
NV2S2     73     John Humphrey
NV3F2     92     Don Sylva/Dave Weyer
NV3M2     115     Jeff Becker
NV3P1     94     Shawn Mercer
NV3P2     111     Ivan “Buck” Stracener
NV3S2     74     Randy Zehr
NV4F2     91     Al Brodbeck
NV4L2     110     Mark Tuck
NV4M2     101     John Malecky
NV4P2     114     Mike Lovergine            (Sponsored by Bio-Kleen)
NV5F3     90     Mike Schlup
NV5P2     94     Morechell Pryer
NV5P3     102     Scott Shogren            (Bio-Kleen Dealer)
NVO1S1     50     John Crabtree
NVO4S3     74     Terry Janssen
PC4S2     130     Bryan Haupt/Dennis Hillhouse    (Sponsored by Bio-Kleen)
PC5P2     177     Bob Bull
PC5P4     171     Bob Morgan            (Sponsored by Bio-Kleen)
PC6P2     196     David Scott/John Tomlinson
PD2P1     116     John “Kap” Caparell
PP1S2     91     Brad Rowland
PV2F1     91     Jeni Dunbar
PV4F2     102     Dan Davies
PV4P2     136     Matt Janssen
PV4Y2     96     Preston Moore
PV5F3     88     Tina Adler

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Bio-Kleen Products, Inc., makers of high performance, environmentally friendly Marine & RV cleaners, has announced their affiliation with the Platinum Powerboat Club. The “Club with Heart” hosts charity events across the nation. They also promote ecological care for the waterways we all are fortunate enough to enjoy. So it sounds like the club fits right in with Bio-Kleen’s eco-vision. The debut event will raise benefits for the Make a Wish Foundation of Southern Florida. The premier Poker Run will run from Palm Beach to the Bahamas on March 11th & 12th with an emphasis on safety and a great time. Sounds like fun…

Read the Platinum Powerboat Club Press Release on the 10 founding members.

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Team AMSOIL traveled to Key West, Florida to compete in the annual UIM/SBI Offshore World Championships held the week of November 2nd through November 9th.  Teams arrived several days early to set up camp at the Truman Annex section of the island for the week-long event.  A total of three race days are combined to achieve the final results.  All classes and over 50 offshore race teams raced on Wednesday, November 5th, Friday, November 7th, and in the finale on Sunday, November 9th.  The preceding days and days between race days are designated for testing.

Team AMSOIL tested extensively on Tuesday to decide on the proper set-up for the traditionally rough Key West water.  The testing paid off and Team AMSOIL nailed the set up.  When the green flag dropped on Wednesday, Team AMSOIL took the lead and never looked back.  By the end of the race, Team AMSOIL was nearly one minute ahead of second place Popeye’s racing.

Read the entire press release HERE.

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