{"id":25365,"date":"2025-10-29T17:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25365\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:18:09","slug":"aftermarket-upgrades-abound-at-lauderdale-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25365\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermarket Upgrades Abound At Lauderdale Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much as powerboat-builders of all stripes would love it, most boat-show attendees don\u2019t come to buy a boat. At least half of them are just looking for something fun to do on a weekend, and strolling around a boat-show to tire-kick\u2014cocktail in hand\u2014with friends fills the bill.<\/p>\n

Legitimate, purposeful potential buyers are few and far between at such events. That\u2019s not a dig on boat shows or the people who love them, just reality.<\/p>\n

But a lot of current boat owners do come to boat shows, such as the famed Fort Lauderdale version in South Florida that opened today, with hopes of finding something to upgrade or update their existing rides. You know, something that costs a whole lot less than a new boat.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s plenty of that to check out in Fort Lauderdale this week.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Hardin Marine\/CP Performance display trailer always has the best assortment of high performance marine parts and accessories.<\/p>\n

To find out what\u2019s hot, I reached out to the folks at CP Performance<\/a> and Hardin Marine<\/a>\u00a0Both are leaders in the aftermarket upgrade segments.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the outboard power side, Mercury Marine and Mercury Racing product is fast-becoming a new platform for the aftermarket-product performance-boating industry,\u201d a Hardin Marin rep explained. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working with top outfits such as the Belak Marine Products<\/a> to offer upgraded supercharger components, pulleys and cooling accessories We offer a MoTEC kit that will boost output another 200 hp<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just about increasing outboard power\u2014it\u2019s also about offering products that can handle it,\u201d he continued .\u201dWe\u2019ve got new upgraded prop-shafts for outboards made from 300M stainless steel, the same material used for Mercury Racing No. 6 and No. 8 drive propeller shafts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though outboard engines still dominate the go-fast boating world, CP and Hardin haven\u2019t stop creating upgrades for stern-drive-engine equipped powerboats. Far from it, in fact.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the stern drive guys we\u2019re bringing the latest in simplified installations for trim and tab monitoring systems,\u201d the Hardin rep said. \u201cWe will offer the brightest , fastest and most- accurate 38-LED indicator panel solution<\/a>, ever. Our NEMA CAN-BUS-style system integrates to work seamlessly as a stand-alone panel popular in championship catamaran racing application or in sync with a glass panel Simrad or Garmin dash panel.<\/p>\n

What makes us even more unique is you used to be limited by your older generation tabs or drive sensors stuck in a world of cables or you had to buy entirely new trim tabs or gimbals,\u201d he added. \u201cWe bring the latest technology to previous generation boats bridging the technology gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hardin\u2019s new Gen III Mayfair Trim Indicators use NMEA connections for easy setup and maximum compatibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much as powerboat-builders of all stripes would love it, most boat-show attendees don\u2019t come to buy a boat.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-25365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}