Recently, Mercury Marine invited us for a ride in an MTI 390X race boat featuring two of Mercury ... either; the deep bucket seats and harnesses implicitly state you're to be seated and strapped ...

Steve Curtis throttles a real race boat. The Victory catamaran Huski Chocolate carried ... and the driver is at the wheel to starboard. Deep bucket seats have 2 inches of suspension travel, and the ...

The cockpit is more race boat than cruiser, with leather Corbeau bucket race seats, a powerful JL Audio sound system, and, yes, a Champagne cooler. The helm features a drag-racer steering wheel ...

with a pair of bucket seats separated by a center console that positions the throttle levers as comfortably as an eight-speed racing shifter and makes the joystick equally reachable. In top-level race ...