The new superboat class has a 66 inch max tunnel and six drives only. That wasnt a secret in November.

its cause they won, and the rest were being cry baby's.... typical offshore racing. they say they want to race everyone and anyone and then as soon the elite of that particular class losses they start finding ways to get rid of the competition. look at the unlimited class that is ...............................

limited to piston only ?????????

no one ever learns from history,,,,,,,,,,,look back at supercat in its heyday, tommy bahama and the other shaft drive mti seemed to have an edge even with same tunnel width and added weight. was it that they tested more, had good setup guys, throttleman or sterling power vs merc ?

Do you or anyone for that matter, honestly believe that Barry Cotter spent all that money to send a race boat over to the US with crew if he thought he could not race? SBI told them and they ASKED if they were going to be legal in the class before they sent the boat. You do realize they came and that was b/c they were informed they were legal for the class. Why else would they derig the boat from its current power, and spend the money on smaller engines to come to the US?

Afterwards, everyone complained and voted it a Merc drive and tunnel restriction class as no one could afford to step up to a new boat they claimed nor purchase surface drives.

The irony in all this is that each racer had the chance to purchase surface drives or Merc. They all believed that Merc was better until they they saw the difference first hand.

Look at the winners in the races in KW.

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Maritimo
Tilted Kilt
Aqua Mania

Honorable mentions:
Geico
Lucas Oil
Sheds Plus
Metamarine
Semper Fi

All have surface drives and everyone wants more racers to race in the US but the US is the only country that runs predominately Merc. Then they close ranks and make the new classes Merc only.

Then everyone says "why are there no surface drive boats racing"?

Surface drives are the way to go for sure.
We have never had any issues with that setup.

Regardless of what SBI have in the books. The Maritimo guys are winners. They put on a great show, and are hard core racers. Hats off.

I don't believe they were stripped of the 12' KW title as much as they and like boats were banned for the 13' season in the new Superboat class which everyone was wanting racers to join in.

Tilted Kilts drives looked good in KW btw.

Of course

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I guess they will just need to join us guys in unlimited turbine class.
We welcome them, and their surface drives :).