NMMA Honors MasterCraft’s XStar with 2018 Innovation Award
MasterCraft Boat Company continues its leadership accolades in the towboat category with a prestigious innovation award for its most advanced towboat to date, the 2018 XStar, said a press release from the company.
Just announced at the Miami International Boat Show, the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) and Boating Writers International honored MasterCraft with this award as one of 17 winners out of 62 total evaluated products.
“With the new XStar, validation came when ranks of pro wakeboarders outside of the MasterCraft team were raving about its versatility and what it will allow them to do off the wake. It’s truly the first wakeboard boat in the world that is so versatile that it enables progression for anyone from family riders to the world’s best,” said Terry McNew, President and CEO of MasterCraft Boat Company.
Terry added: “We’re thrilled and honored to receive our seventh innovation award in eight years from the NMMA. We recognize that so many owners buy MasterCraft because of our industry-leading innovation, and with the X Star, its innovations transcend even beyond its on-water performance.”
Two decades after changing the sport of wakeboarding with the first XStar, the first true performance wakeboard boat, the 2018 XStar was completely redesigned to debut as the highest performing, most technologically advanced wake-specific boat in the industry.
Over the last eight years MasterCraft’s top new products and technologies have laid claim to seven annual Innovation Awards from the NMMA and Boating Writers International. Last year, the company won the award for its revolutionary DockStar Handling System.
