Before making the trek to Bermuda, Chris Fertig (left) and Tyson Garvin spent some time at
Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri testing the Skater Powerboats 399 with twin 480-hp Cummins diesel engines.
Surely most of you are familiar with the duo’s recent record-setting run from New York to Bermuda as part of Boating Magazine’s Bermuda Challenge. If not, let me briefly fill you in. The first two-time Bermuda Challenge record setters finished the 780-plus-mile endurance run in 15 hours and 48 minutes just after midnight on August 22. The feat was accomplished nearly a year after the two completed the run in a diesel-powered 37-foot Statement Marine center console in 21 hours and 39 minutes, a record that was broken two months later by legendary Italian boatbuilder Fabio Buzzi in 17 hours and 6 minutes. (For more, you can watch this video interview, check out the OSO thread or read Eric Colby’s preview he wrote a few months back.) More; On to the Next Record—A Guinness Record | OffshoreOnly.com – Powerboating Online
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