While at the Miami International Boat Show a few months back, I stopped by the Midnight Express Powerboats in-water display to look at some of the Miami company’s breathtaking center consoles and check in with the brothers behind the business—Eric and Harris Glaser—and Randall Truesdale, Midnight’s sales consultant who recently took a job with BoatsDirectUSA and Deep Impact Boats.
This beautiful Midnight Express 39S Open might look like a typical 39-foot center console from the Miami-based company, but that’s hardly the case.
Although the 43′ Open Ulysse Nardin Edition and the 43-footer across from it, featuring a chest-pounding stereo system with speakers hidden throughout the boat, were immediate eye-catchers, the one that I noticed right away was the 39S Open with a unique shock mitigation seat arrangement for the driver and co-pilot. I asked Eric Glaser about it and he proceeded to inform me that the custom-built boat was designed for none other than his father, Dr. Bert Glaser, who is partially paralyzed.
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