Glassy gray water, overcast skies and overhead light don’t make for great powerboat photos. They’re natural elements beyond event-photographer control, of course, but they’re a losing combination for producing memorable images of boats in action.
Such was the case with Spooled Up, a wild, Visual Imagination-painted 52-foot MTI catamaran owned by New York-based boating bon vivant Gino Gargiulo, during last weekend’s Florida Powerboat Club Key Largo Winter Rendezvous. The water was flat and gray and the lighting was washed out. Conditions couldn’t have been much worse for a powerboat photo-shoot.
And yet Gargiulo’s 2017 model-year, twin Mercury Racing 1550/1350 engine-powered cat which he purchased from DCB Performance Marine managing partners Craig and Kim Hargreaves through TNT Marine Sales, pops in the image.
Credit the Mark Morris paintjob and the catamaran itself. And just imagine what Spooled Up would look like in sporty blue water and good light.
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