Mako’s “Rapid Planing System” enables low-speed planing with no bow rise in skinny water.

If you have ever owned a small boat that had horrible bow rise before it would get on plane, then you will appreciate the Boating Writers International/NMMA Innovation Award to Mako for their new 18 LTS. The bay boat has a patent-pending “Rapid Planing System” that not only pushes the boat up on plane quickly, but it can do it in only 24" (60.96 cm) of water. The boat has a stepped hull. The BWI/NMMA Innovation Awards are given out each year at the Miami Boat Show. The judge said that the boat gets out of the hole quickly in skinny water and does it at an affordable price (as low as $16,495 according to the Mako website). 

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