My Way Crash Forces Shootout Scratch

It seemed obvious after the incident last Saturday on the St. Lawrence River, but our friends at LakeExpo.com confirmed with Bill Tomlinson that he won’t be participating in the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout next week in My Way, his 50-foot Mystic Powerboats catamaran.

My Way will not be returning to the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout to defend its Top Gun title. Photo by Robert Brown

Editor J.B. Simpson spoke with Tomlinson on Monday and the Canadian expressed his disappointment in not being able to defend his 2011 Top Gun title, but vows to return to the event in 2013 to try to break the Shootout record.

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