Lucas Oil is constructing a new marine stadium in Wheatland, Mo., adjacent to its 3/8-mile clay track, called “The Diamond of Dirt Tracks.” Roughly rectangular, it is 3,800 feet long, 400 feet wide and 10 feet deep. When it is filled with more than 11 million gallons of water, it will stage boat drag racing competitions, […]

Construction is expected to be completed by Jan. 1, according to Mercury spokesman Steve Fleming. The expansion project is needed to support the consolidation of Stillwater, Okla., operations with Mercury’s Wisconsin site. 🙁 The new construction project will serve as the main receiving dock for Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac and as the receiving […]

Mercury Marine is introducing the Verado 250 Pro FourStroke – the latest addition to the company’s lineup of performance outboards. Read More

FLW Outdoors and Mercury Marine signed an agreement marking Mercury’s return as a sponsor of the world’s largest tournament-fishing organization. Read More

Mercury Marine recently released this short video explaining the benefits of the new Flo Torque Reflex propeller hub design. Watch Video

Mercury MerCruiser recently issued a product safety recall of certain sterndrive packages that require the replacement of the intermediate shift cables on 2010 model Alpha and Bravo sterndrives, the company said. Select this Link to read the full article

The latest report released by Soundings Trade shows that used boat “Brokerage” boat sales were down a little for July 2010 as compared with July 2009. Speaking for those of us here in the Mid-West, I suspect this is due to the lack of good, high quality used boats. With the new boat sales market still […]

The latest new boat sales data seems to indicate the same thing the new housing sales market did last week; people are still not willing to spend the extra money to purchase new versus used. Everything we can see points to the fact that investing into repairs of existing boats is very worthwhile since dealers are making […]