Last summer, Mystic Powerboats founder/owner John Cosker and his wife, Robin, hauled a C4000 catamaran to events around the country. The Coskers were on the road for much of the season.
Led by John Cosker, 20 Mystic owners will head to the Bahamas next week.
This year, the couple will have a “softer” demo season from both the number of events they plan to attend to their ride of choice. Take nothing away from a Mystic C4000 cat—it handles rough water as well as anything in its class and has an uncommonly spacious interior. But the M4200 center console performs well in rough water and has a lot more creature comforts.
“Robin loved the cat, but I think she was done with it by the end of the season,” Cosker said in an interview earlier this year.
Yesterday, I caught up with him via phone on his way back from a delivery of a new M4200 to a customer in Pompano Beach, Fla. We had been playing phone-and-text tag for weeks and finally connected. Here’s what he had to say.
You typically do most deliveries in New Smyrna Beach. What took you all the way to Pompano Beach?
(Laughs) Well, the customer has a place there and this is his second Mystic. He had an M3800 before he ordered the new boat. With all the repeat customers we have, deliveries have become a lot more simple. We usually can get them done in a day now.
You have a big trip to the Bahamas coming up for Mystic owners next week.
We do. We leave Tuesday from the Bahia Mar Resort in Fort Lauderdale and I have two demos to do there with the new 42 before we leave. We’ll be on Bimini for two days and then we are going to the Eleutheras for three days.
We have 20 owners going—it’s our biggest Bahamas group yet. We usually have 15 to 20 boats. We’ve been doing it for five years now.
This is your fifth year of organizing owner events to the Bahamas. It must be getting easier to pull together.
(Laughs) Not really, because we go new places every time. One year we did West End and the Abacos. This year we’re doing something different. So you have to scout it beforehand and pull everything together—every destination in the Bahamas is a little different. We have several new participants going so that will make it even more fun.
And what does the rest of the season hold?
We’ll do the 1,000 Islands Charity Poker Run in July. It’s so beautiful there and you just can’t beat the boating in that area. In August we’ll do the Lake of the Ozarks Shooout. I was hoping to have a new M4200 demo-boat there but it probably isn’t going to make it.
And then?
(Laughs) And then I think we’ll take September off.
You mentioned that you’ve been drawing a lot these days. What’s on the drawing board?
That’s been nice—I love to design when I have the time. I don’t know what’s next, honestly. But I see a lot of buyers going more and more luxurious boats beyond even today’s center consoles, so that might be a direction we’ll be looking at it. It’s just been really nice to have the time to draw. I really enjoy it.