{"id":408124,"date":"2026-09-23T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408124\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:00:10","slug":"mti-doubling-up-again-for-fort-lauderdale-exhibit-and-haulover-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408124\/","title":{"rendered":"MTI Doubling Up Again For Fort Lauderdale Exhibit And Haulover Demos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home to a healthy variety of high-performance powerboat exhibits during the Fort Lauderdale International Boat, the Bahia Mar Yachting Center is a manageable venue once you reach it. Traffic in and around the area\u2014and most of South Florida for that matter\u2014is congested most of the time and savage at peak hours. But once you get there, there\u2019s plenty to see at the docks and the layout is easy to navigate.<\/p>\n

Yet for exhibitors, the challenge of offering demo experiences is ongoing. All of the boats in the water dock-locked for the duration.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just a hurdle at the Fort Lauderdale happening. It\u2019s also a major headache at the annual Miami International Boat Show. In fact, the problem is so acute at the Miami event that Mercury Racing hosts an annual invitational demo-event at Grove Harbour Marina\u2014a 30-minute drive from the Miami Convention Center on a very good day\u2014in Coconut Grove from Wednesday morning through Friday at noon during the show.<\/p>\n

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Introduced at Performance Boat Center in early September 2025 by MTI leaders Randy and Taylor Scism, the 442 center-console model will in that water at the upcoming Fort Lauderdale Boat Show and concurrently available for demo experiences at Haulover Marine Center. Photo by Jeff Helmkamp copyright Helmkamp Photos.<\/p>\n

For that reason, MTI will once again back up its display fleet at the show with a demo fleet at Haulover Marine Center. The Wentzville, Mo., company will have 442 and 50 V center consoles at the Bahia Mar docks. The team also will have the same models at Haulover for by-appointment demos. (Demo reservations can be made through MTI\u2019s Shaun Peters and Tom Stuart.)<\/p>\n

The company has used the dual-location boat-show strategy for several years and it\u2019s been successful. Other performance boat builders have followed its lead.<\/p>\n

In boat-show-related news for MTI, the company completed its first exhibit at the Cannes Yachting last week on the French Riviera this last week. From there, Peters and the company\u2019s John Teague headed to the Monaco Boat Show, which opens today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the reception to MTI went very well\u2014 something different for the client base over there,\u201d said Taylor Scism, the vice-president of the company, who was on scene for the Cannes event. \u201cThere was a lot of excitement to try to product.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home to a healthy variety of high-performance powerboat exhibits during the Fort Lauderdale International Boat, the Bahia Mar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-408124","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\/408124","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=408124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}