BOATS & BROS: with Lake Havasu's Desert Storm Co-Owner STEVE TICKNOR
Release Date: 03/12/2025
Boats & Bros
The "Bros" host a SUPER SIZED two-hour episode discussing the importance of nutrition with registered dietitian and owner of Nicole Rubenstein, MS, RDN, CSSD, CDCES, world renowned spine surgeon, Ironman and offshore racing's Medical Director Dr. Michael Janssen and world champion offshore racer, Iconic Marine Group's Vice President of Product Development and President of the newly formed Jeff Harris. The esteemed panel of guests explain how crucial it is to fuel the body properly and continuously, sometimes even more so than the boats that they race–for optimum performance and peak...
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Recorded LIVE from the Desert Storm Street Party in downtown Lake Havasu City, AZ, the "Bros" try conducting live interviews from random people passing by that were attending the West Coast's premier event, Desert Storm that features their Poker Run and the Shugrue's Shootout while enjoying the World Famous Street Party, which may have been the largest one to-date. Listen to how that went... Myrick Coil is the driver for the National Champion team, Test Team Driver, lead shop foreman at and a dedicated family man. Ray...
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Recorded LIVE from the Desert Storm Street Party in downtown Lake Havasu City, AZ, the "Bros" talk to Nick Petersen, Propeller Mastermind, about all the happenings at the Fond du Lac, WI company and attending the West Coast's premier event, Desert Storm that features their Poker Run and the Shugrue's Shootout while enjoying the World Famous Street Party, which may have been the largest one to-date. Myrick Coil is the driver for the National Champion team, Test Team Driver, lead shop foreman at and a dedicated family man. Ray...
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Recorded LIVE from the Desert Storm Street Party in downtown Lake Havasu City, AZ, the "Bros" talk to Bob Teague about all the happenings at the West Coast's premier event that features their Poker Run and the Shugrue's Shootout while enjoying the World Famous Street Party, which may have been the largest one to-date. Myrick Coil is the driver for the National Champion team, Test Team Driver, lead shop foreman at and a dedicated family man. Ray Lee is the publisher of the national/international publication , where nine high...
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Technical difficulties are a part of everyday life. As much as we try to avoid them, they always seem to happen from time to time. That's precisely what happened after a recent recording of the podcast with Speedboat photographer Tom Leigh and videographer Carter Bahde. Myrick's internet was taking longer than the others so the "Bros" had to wait until the full episode had completed its upload. Being presumably "off the podcast," the Coil household returned to regular life. Then hilarity ensued. So Ray covertly started recording the "slime" madness and this is just part of what...
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The "Bros" talk with their fellow Speedboat Magazine Team Members, Ace photographer Tom Leigh () and talented videographer Carter Bahde () on working in the amazing industry of high-performance boating that bring you all of the incredible imagery from issue to issue and post and post ––in addtion to all of the other freelance work that the dynamic duo takes on. Hear their behind-the-scenes takes on what it's like working such cool jobs and how they feel about the various events throughout the year. It's a candid look at how the premier publication of boating operates, from each issue to...
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The "Bros" catch up with one another after finally being able to connect after some early year events that kept both Myrick and Ray on the road and away from the podcast studio. One of those events was a whirlwind trip to Monaco for the team of Tyler Miller and Myrick to receive their hard earned UIM Class 1 World Champion trophies, as well as being forever immortalized on the prestigious Sam Griffith Memorial Trophy, along with the other legends of offshore racing such as Aronow, Bertram, Powers, Bin Hendi, Scism, Tomlinson and Curtis, to name a few. Then the usual...
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The "Bros" engage in part 2 of their very candid discussion with the former President and son of the founder of the industry-leading giant , Fred Kiekhaefer. Listen as he outlines the very difficult task of growing up in the shadow of such a driven, tough man that was known as "The Iron Fist," E. Carl Kiekhaefer. Despite his travails, Fred overcomes the many challenges of growing up as Carl's son and elevates himself to the top of the very company that his father started–without his blessing or support–and develops some of the most innovative engines that the...
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The "Bros" engage in a very candid discussion with the former President and son of the founder of the industry-leading giant , Fred Kiekhaefer. Listen as he outlines the very difficult task of growing up in the shadow of such a driven, tough man that was known as "The Iron Fist," E. Carl Kiekhaefer. Despite his travails, Fred overcomes the many challenges of growing up as Carl's son and elevates himself to the top of the very company that his father started–without his blessing or support–and develops some of the most innovative engines that the performance world has seen...
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The "Bros" talk with Steve Ticknor, the West Coast's premier performance boating event, the , scheduled for April 23-26, 2025. The long running event brings tens of thousands of people to the town of Lake Havasu City, AZ to experience all of the festivities, including the world famous Street Party on downtown McCulloch Blvd., the exciting Poker Run and the high speed, high adrenaline Shugrue's Shootout that showcases some of the fastest boats in the country. Ticknor, along with his partner, Jim Russell, has elevated Desert Storm to unprecedented proportions and has just teamed up...
info_outlineThe "Bros" talk with Steve Ticknor, the West Coast's premier performance boating event, the Desert Storm Poker Run and Shootout, scheduled for April 23-26, 2025.
The long running event brings tens of thousands of people to the town of Lake Havasu City, AZ to experience all of the festivities, including the world famous Street Party on downtown McCulloch Blvd., the exciting Poker Run and the high speed, high adrenaline Shugrue's Shootout that showcases some of the fastest boats in the country.
Ticknor, along with his partner, Jim Russell, has elevated Desert Storm to unprecedented proportions and has just teamed up with the largest unsanctioned race in the country, the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout, to become a joint Shootout circuit where particpants that run both could be crowned a National title.
In addtion, local super entusiasts and reigning 'King and Queen of the Desert,' Tim Jones with daughter Amanda, along with previous 'Queen,' matriarch Miranda have offered a prize purse of $20,000, to be distributed across several designated classes, and the new Jones Family Cup.
This is Desert Storm! And this is Steve Ticknor.
Myrick Coil is the driver for the National Champion Monster Energy / M CON Class 1 team, Speedboat Magazine Test Team Driver, lead shop foreman at Performance Boat Center and a dedicated family man.
Ray Lee is the publisher of the national/international publication Speedboat Magazine, where nine high quality issues are printed each year with global distribution, and popular social media platforms on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
With all of the "bros" experience, knowledge, and friends and colleagues in the industry and sport, this podcast is sure to entertain, enthuse and educate the powerboating community.