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Bago Big Bet Brings High-Stakes Excitement to Oshkosh

High-performance boating fans are invited to join the exciting world of high-stakes poker at the inaugural Bago Big Bet Poker Run, June 20-23, 2024, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where adrenaline meets the s...

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Mercury Racing: 50 Years of Wide Open

For more than five decades since its establishment as Mercury Marine Hi-Performance Products Department in 1973, Mercury Racing has provided amateur and professional boaters with a complete line of ma...

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Mercury Racing Launches 60 APX Competition Outboard

Mercury Racing® boosts its support of circuit racing with the addition of the 60 APX model to its Apex series of pure competition outboards. The 60 APX is designed specifically to power catamaran tunn...

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The World’s Finest Skiff Raffle Closes November 24

The clock is counting down on your chance to enter the annual The World’s Finest Skiff Raffle to benefit the mission of Captains for Clean Water. On November 24 ticket sales close, ending your chance ...

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Mercury Racing Scholarship Fuels a New Career

The waterfront needs more qualified marine technicians and Mercury Racing is doing its part to support technical training through scholarships for aspiring techs. We recently caught up with one of our...

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Mercury Racing Midwest Challenge a Wide Open Success

Photo Credit: Tommy Gun ImagesBig crowds and plenty of Wide Open action were featured August 11-13 at the Mercury Racing Midwest Challenge, a festival of speed on the water in Sheboygan, Wis., celebra...

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Thunder Rolling on Lake Michigan

Mercury Racing is ready for a Wide Open weekend of thrilling powerboat competition August 11-13 in Sheboygan, Wis., as the Mercury Racing Midwest Challenge presents a festival of speed on the shores o...

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Repowering an Icon

Today Reggie Fountain Jr. is a performance powerboat icon but in 1980 Fountain – a former member of the Mercury Factory tunnel boat racing team and a champion in the sport – had just lost his ride whe...

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UMPBA Races into Stevens Point

Guest Blog: Brett Seubert, UMPBA The Upper Midwest Power Boat Association partnered up with Bullheads Bar and Grill to host its second race of the season in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

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Big Speed and Big Fun at the Tiki Lee’s Shootout

Photo by Randy Nuzzo/Powerboat PhotosIt was a Wide Open weekend on Chesapeake Bay as the Third Annual Tiki Lee’s Shootout on the River hosted both a poker run and a speed run event with plenty of othe...

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1000 Island Poker Run Exceeds Expectations

More than 100 registered boats and 90 generous sponsors helped make the 2023 1000 Island International Charity Poker Run a huge success, according to event treasurer Renee Lalonde.

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UMPBA Opens Drag Race Season on Pelican Lake

A very competitive field of 42 race entries filled the field for the first drag race of the season hosted by the Upper Midwest Power Boat Association (UMPBA) on June 10 at Gerrit’s Lakeview Inn on Pel...

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Introducing The Mercury Racing V8 500R

The new Mercury Racing V8 500R elevates outboard engine power and technology. This supercharged, 500hp V8 500R introduces a host of new components engineered to meet the challenging demands of extreme...

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