Even if you own a Skater catamaran, there’s no guarantee you’ll be invited to the annual Weekend At Ronnie’s affair celebrating the brand. at the Lake of Ozarks. First off, you need to be a friend of Ron Szolack, the Skater collector who hosts the annual invitational event. Szolack has a lot of Skater-owning friends. Not all of them get the invite.

Second, with rare exceptions—most notably an MTI 440X and a Performance Powerboats P420 for the first time this year—you also have to own a catamaran built by the Douglas, Mich., company such.

Weekend At Ronnie’s first-timer Marty Grantier ran this month’s event in a Skater 412 that was once the property of the event’s host. Photo by Jeff Helmkamp copyright Helmkamp Photos.

That brings us to the Skater 412 catamaran above. The striking 41-footer is the property of Marty Grantier who owns homes in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., and at the Lake of Ozarks. Grantier purchased the cat through Performance Boat Center in Osage Beach, Mo., from—go figure—Ron Szolack. It is the second cat he’s brought from the high-octane powerboat wheeler-dealer. The first was a 36-footer he acquired two years ago but recently traded in on a 48-foot MTI catamaran, which Szolack also owned.

The most recent Weekend At Ronnie’s event was Grantier’s first. It will not be his last.

“Where do you start?” he said. “It was incredible.”

“I’ll keep coming back until they throw me out,” he added, then chuckled.

Giving Grantier’s relationship and purchase history with the event’s host, getting invited to next year’s shindig should be easy.