Liquid Glass Powerboats

Liquid Glass Powerboats will attend the Thunder at the Lake Poker Run held at Lake of the Ozarks in Southern Missouri.  This year’s event is held July 24-26. 

Liquid Glass Powerboats partner DIAB Technologies has featured Liquid Glass in its recent newsletter.  DIAB was commissioned by Liquid Glass Powerboats to provide the infusion molding hull technologies as we build our hulls.  DIAB trained Liquid Glass personnel on the core infusion process.  DIAB is a global company whose products are found anywhere high performance structures are required, including: marine, wind energy, transportation, aerospace, and industrial market.  Click the image at the side to access DIAB’s website for more information.  Read ever more about DIAB at:

 http://www.diabgroup.com/americas/u_opening/u_home.html

Over the last several months, Liquid Glass Powerboats has continued to refine its 41 Luxury Cat model by following up a successful early 2007 introduction with testing at Mercury’s X-Site location.  Liquid Glass Powerboats extensively tested, in recent months, 41 Luxury Cats containing Mercury Racing 700SCi and 850SCi powerplants.

Said Randy Schultz, Chief Designer of Liquid Glass Powerboats, “The X-Site gives us an opportunity to spend several days isolating the performance improvements achieved by testing various props and pitches, running the drives in vs. out, and other specific adjustments that allow our cats to run at their peak performance.  And having access to Mercury technicians in the boat with us provides invaluable expertise and credibility to our top speed claims.”

About Mercury’s X-Site:

X-Site is a 8.4-acre, integrated research-and- development site located on Watson Bayou near Panama City, Fla. Opened in 2004, the facility features multiple in-water slips, laboratory, a boat-rigging building, and the Bayou offers suitable calm and rough conditions in both saltwater and freshwater.   Best of all, because of the decades-long relationship between Mercury and Liquid Glass co-founder Randy Schultz, Mercury Racing technicians make themselves available to assist with final testing and refinement. 

In its annual Best of the Best in Extreme Boating Awards, Extreme Boats Magazine has named the Liquid Glass Powerboats 41 Luxury Cat the Extreme Cat of the year.  We are very honored by this accolade and appreciate Extreme Boats Magazine for choosing us as this year’s award winner.  The specific model which won the award was our 41′ cat with twin 700 horsepower Mercury Racing engines and NXT1 Drives painted by Visual Imagination. 

Liquid Glass Powerboats will be exhibiting a new, unseen 41 Luxury Cat at the 2008 Dubai International Boat Show from March 11-15, 2008.  We are exhibiting in-water near the Ferretti and Sunseeker on-water displays.  Stop by to see the 41 Luxury Cat and all its features.  Contact us in advance to pre-register for an in-water demonstration before or after the show and take a ride with us. We would love to meet you.  Please stop by and introduce yourself.   Download the on-water floor plan for the Liquid Glass Powerboats show location.

Liquid Glass Powerboats will be exhibiting a new, unseen 41 Luxury Cat at the 2008 Miami International Boat Show from February 14-18.  We are exhibiting in-water at Sea Isle Marina in slip number 911.  Stop by to see the 41 Luxury Cat and all its features.  Contact us in advance to pre-register for an in-water demonstration and take a ride with us. We would love to meet you, so stop by and introduce yourself.   

Liquid Glass Powerboats was featured in an 8-page spread in the November 2007 edition of Extreme Boats Magazine.

View the article, photos, and interview with Chief Designer Randy Schultz.

The Extreme Boats Magazine article is an Adobe Acrobat PDF document. You may need to download Adobe Acrobat.

Recently, we were fortunate in gaining access to Mercury Racing’s facilities and technicians at their headquarters in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin.   With the assistance of Mercury’s experts, we were able to accutely fine-tune the 41 Luxury Cat.  We tested numerous propeller options, switched the drives to test clockwise and counter-clockwise performance, and dialed in the engines for optimal performance.  After two full, exhaustive days of testing, the testing was complete.  We have now arrived at the optimal settings that allow all our cats to run spectacularly.   

Not all powerboat manufacturers are afforded this level of access to Mercury.  Professional and personal relationships have existed with Mercury Racing and Mercury Marine spanning more than a decade.  We are so greatly appreciative of their technicians’ time and use of their on-land and on-water facilities.  While in Fond Du Lac, we also shot aerial footage of the cat running.  Look for still shots as well as video on our website. 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:
Ryan Kratz – Co-founder
Liquid Glass Powerboats
563-380-3161
Info@LiquidGlassBoats.com

Liquid Glass Powerboats – New 41’ (12.5 meter) Luxury, Performance Catamaran Unveiling - Sumner, Iowa, April 5, 2007

Liquid Glass Powerboats announces the introduction and unveiling of its new 41 foot (12.5 meter) luxury, performance catamaran. The 41 Luxury Cat features brand new, modern hull and interior designs, superb performance, cutting-edge technologies, and luxurious interior appointments more commonly found in yachts and supercars. Each Cat is derived from a CNC-machined mold and incorporates a cutting-edge hull technology called infusion molding, which results in a stronger, lighter, longer lasting, defect-free hull versus vacuum bagging or hand laying. A few notable features of the 41’ Luxury Cat include: twin Mercury Racing engine power, a below bow luxuriously-appointed cabin, power seats and power footrests for optimal comfort and support, GPS navigation, and complete customization with an options list limited only to the owner’s and the Company’s collective imaginations.

The history and heritage behind the 41 Luxury Cat is lengthy. For 28 years, Randy Schultz has been building custom powerboats. Before he sold his former company, Profile Powerboats, he created custom-built 28 foot catamarans to critical acclaim. Over the years, his ‘280 Cats’ were featured in numerous magazines, performance tests, and even videography. As a co-founder of Liquid Glass Powerboats with partners David and Ryan Kratz, Randy completely redesigned and reengineered an entirely new product, the 41 Luxury Cat, as a luxury performance catamaran with the speed and agility of a high-performance powerboat along with luxurious interior appointments. “The 41 Luxury Cat has exceeded our expectations,” said Randy. “It is quick and stable on the water, yet the cockpit and cabin features are truly unique. It is not a traditional catamaran. We’ve built this boat from the ground up. Everything is new and modern from the designs, to the hull, to the seats, to the power and technologies, to the build materials… everything.”

About Liquid Glass Powerboats
Liquid Glass Powerboats designs, manufactures, and sells custom high-performance luxury catamarans for exclusive sale worldwide. The Company custom builds each powerboat using modern materials, innovative designs, state-of-the-art technologies, and exceptional build quality. No two boats are ever customized identically. In addition to superb performance and luxurious interior appointments, Liquid Glass Powerboats feature a below-bow cabin, highly unique in catamaran vessels. Power is supplied by performance racing engines from Mercury Marine.

Following 28 years of custom, high-performance powerboat-building experience as the owner and chief designer of Profile Custom Powerboats, Randy Schultz teamed with David and Ryan Kratz to co-found Liquid Glass Powerboats based in Sumner, Iowa, USA. The Company is privately held and employs a highly-trained, dedicated workforce. Liquid Glass Powerboats strives to ensure that each powerboat constructed is as individually unique as its owner. For more information, please contact Liquid Glass Powerboats at 1-(563)-578-5900.