Boats & Bros Podcast

Recorded LIVE from the Desert Storm Street Party in downtown Lake Havasu City, AZ, the "Bros" try conducting live interviews from random people passing by that were attending the West Coast's premier event, Desert Storm that features their Poker Run and the Shugrue's Shootout while enjoying the World Famous Street Party, which may have been the largest one to-date. 

Listen to how that went... 

Myrick Coil is the driver for the Nati...

Recorded LIVE from the Desert Storm Street Party in downtown Lake Havasu City, AZ, the "Bros" talk to Nick Petersen, Mercury Racing's Propeller Mastermind, about all the happenings at the Fond du Lac, WI company and attending the West Coast's premier event, Desert Storm that features their Poker Run and the Shugrue's Shootout while enjoying the World Famous Street Party, which may have been the largest one to-date. 

Myrick Coil is ...

Recorded LIVE from the Desert Storm Street Party in downtown Lake Havasu City, AZ, the "Bros" talk to Bob Teague about all the happenings at the West Coast's premier event that features their Poker Run and the Shugrue's Shootout while enjoying the World Famous Street Party, which may have been the largest one to-date. 

Myrick Coil is the driver for the National Champion Monster Energy / M CON Class 1 team, Speedboat Magazine Test T...

Technical difficulties are a part of everyday life. As much as we try to avoid them, they always seem to happen from time to time. 

That's precisely what happened after a recent recording of the podcast with Speedboat photographer Tom Leigh and videographer Carter Bahde. Myrick's internet was taking longer than the others so the "Bros" had to wait until the full episode had completed its upload. Being presumably "off the podcast," ...

The "Bros" talk with their fellow Speedboat Magazine Team Members, Ace photographer Tom Leigh (Tommy Gun Images) and talented videographer Carter Bahde (Havasu Media Productions) on working in the amazing industry of high-performance boating that bring you all of the incredible imagery from issue to issue and post and post ––in addtion to all of the other freelance work that the dynamic duo takes on.

Hear their behind-the-scenes ta...

The "Bros" catch up with one another after finally being able to connect after some early year events that kept both Myrick and Ray on the road and away from the podcast studio.

One of those events was a whirlwind trip to Monaco for the  Monster Energy / M CON Class 1 team of Tyler Miller and Myrick to receive their hard earned UIM Class 1 World Champion trophies, as well as being forever immortalized on the prestigious Sam Griffit...

The "Bros" engage in part 2 of their very candid discussion with the former President and son of the founder of the industry-leading giant Mercury Racing, Fred Kiekhaefer. 

Listen as he outlines the very difficult task of growing up in the shadow of such a driven, tough  man that was known as "The Iron Fist," E. Carl Kiekhaefer.

Despite his travails, Fred overcomes the many challenges of growing up as Carl's son and elevates himsel...

The "Bros" engage in a very candid discussion with the former President and son of the founder of the industry-leading giant Mercury Racing, Fred Kiekhaefer. 

Listen as he outlines the very difficult task of growing up in the shadow of such a driven, tough  man that was known as "The Iron Fist," E. Carl Kiekhaefer.

Despite his travails, Fred overcomes the many challenges of growing up as Carl's son and elevates himself to the top o...

The "Bros" talk with Steve Ticknor, the West Coast's premier performance boating event, the Desert Storm Poker Run and Shootout, scheduled for April 23-26, 2025. 

The long running event brings tens of thousands of people to the town of Lake Havasu City, AZ to experience all of the festivities, including the world famous Street Party on downtown McCulloch Blvd., the exciting Poker Run and the high speed, high adrenaline Shugrue's Sh...

After months of three-way scheduling conflicts, the "Bros" finally catch up with offshore racing champion JJ Turk–who just secured the esteemed and highly coveted honors of National Champion, World Champion and also inducted into the APBA Hall of Champions for the 2024 season. He accomplished all  of them for pulling double duty and collecting victories alongside his throttleman, Nick Buis in both Class 5 and Mod Vee classes. 

Raci...

After months of three-way scheduling conflicts, the "Bros" finally catch up with offshore racing champion JJ Turk–who just secured the esteemed and highly coveted honors of National Champion, World Champion and also inducted into the APBA Hall of Champions for the 2024 season. He accomplished all  of them for pulling double duty and collecting victories alongside his throttleman, Nick Buis in both Class 5 and Mod Vee classes. 

Raci...

The "Bros" catch up with one another after a busy few weeks being on the road following the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show and the RWO Key West World Championship.

It has been a tumultuous offshore racing season that saw cancellations of the final two races of the regular season and even the first day of racing in Key West due to tropical storms and hurricanes that ravaged the state of Florida, as well as ongoing drama amo...

The BROS chat with the multi-talented, nulti-faceted Vice President of Marine Technology Inc. (MTI), multi-time National / World Champion offshore racer, three-year Chairperson of the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout, and newlywed Taylor Scism.

There was a lot of news to catch up on with Taylor since her last visit to the Podcast, such as her recent marriage to Shaun Peters, the new location for the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout, MTI's re...

The BROS have a loose, candid chat with speedboat enthusiast and repeat Performance Boat Center cleint, Tubby McDonald. Coming right off of the Speedboat Magazine West Coast Performance Evaluations for 2025 in Lake Havasu City, AZ.

Tubby, Myrick, wife Missi and Ray enjoy a pleasure day on the water, discuss different things and lock in for the Jet Ski Freestyle Exhibition from the Jet Ski World Finals at the famed London Bridge. 

M...

The Bros have a cool discussion with Willy Cabeza, World Champion Owner/Driver of Factory Stock 450R Class GC Racing. In just his second full season of offshore racing, Cabeza managed to secure his first World Championship, alongside veteran champion racer, Shaun Torrente. WIth that particluar pairing being temporary, Cabeza has now partnered with Grant Bruggemann, formerly of Super Cat Team Valder Yachts with Wayne Valder. 

Listen...

Champion Throttleman Rusty Williams joins the Bros as they discuss their awesome run of the infamous Dirty Duck 438 Skater, recording 202 mph at the 2024 Lake of thew Ozarks Shootout in late August.

Williams and Coil teamed up again to run "The Duck" for owner Slug Hefner with the fire-breathing twin 2200hp turbocharged engines built and tuned by industry legend Carson Brummett. 

Last year, Team Dirty Duck achieved 194 mph on the 3...

The Bros have offshore throttleman, Vinnie Diorio on again after a white knuckle Super Cat Class battle in Sheboygan, as Teams M-CON/Monster Energy and Austin Homes/SV Offshore Racing squared off at the 2024 Midwest Challenge.

Vinnie, along with teammate driver Matt Jamnickzy nearly flipped their beautiful 39' Outerlimits race boat while charging for the first turn along with six other competitors. The duo managed to save the near ...

The Bros have offshore throttleman, Vinnie Diorio on again after a white knuckle Super Cat Class battle in Sheboygan, as Teams M-CON/Monster Energy and Austin Homes/SV Offshore Racing squared off at the 2024 Midwest Challenge.

Vinnie, along with teammate driver Matt Jamnickzy nearly flipped their beautiful 39' Outerlimits race boat while charging for the first turn along with six other competitors. The duo managed to save the near ...

The Bros have a candid conversation with Mercury Racing's master of props, Nick Petersen. Listen as they talk about all things propulsion in the world of Mercury Racing and Mercury Marine. With knowledge far beyond his years, Petersen helps fit boats from all areas of watercraft with the perfect propeller for peak performance–from offshore racers like Myrick to the competitive bass fishermen. 

Also, Petersen competes in the UMPBA (...