Key Figures · Tuner and racer
Bo Dupriest
A tuner named in a 2001 magazine report, and the name printed beside Neptune Racing, which Sea-Doo's 1998 racing handbook listed for carburetors and exhaust systems
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Printed above the facts, 1997, 1999, 2012 and 2013. Printed above none, 1998 and 2000 to 2011. 2 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.
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Confirmed 0
Likely 6
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Results
2013 · Likely
The International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA) posted on 5 November 2013 the results it had received from the 2013 RIVA Racing IJSBA HydroDrag World Finals; under Hydro Stock it lists Bo Dupriest first among the names, with the brand printed as SEA, which the archive reads as Sea-Doo, and prints no placing numbers. Reading this racer as the tuner rests on the name and the make, which the archive infers.
Design and invention
1997 · Likely
Group K, an engine shop, in its notes on the September 1997 issue of Splash kept on its own site, discusses an article headed Neptune XP Limited, which it describes as showing a 785 Sea-Doo pipe on a limited race boat with radar speeds, and says it is surprised to see Bo Dupriest do such an article and give his prospective customers so little information, adding that perhaps that was the editor's responsibility.
Sources: Group K Between the Lines 1997
Business
1999 · Likely
Personal Watercraft Illustrated's online news, as captured in June 2001, reports that Karine Paturel would ride for Yamaha that year and would once again be teamed with tuner Bo Dupriest, with whom, it says, she had so much success during the 1999 season.
Sources: PWI Paturel to Yamaha 2001
Sea-Doo's Racing Handbook, a Bombardier publication the Internet Archive dates to 1998, prints NEPTUNE RACING (Carburetors and Exhaust Systems) with the name Bo Dupriest in its list of aftermarket manufacturers. The list gives no title beside the name. The archive reads the handbook's Neptune Racing contact as the tuner of the 2001 report from the name, an inference.
Sources: Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998
2012 · Likely
Sea-Doo's OnBoard blog of 24 July 2012 quotes the Pro Stock winner at the IJSBA's Virginia National thanking "my tuner Bo Dupriest", among others, for preparing him for that weekend. That this tuner is the Bo Dupriest of Neptune Racing rests on the name and the Sea-Doo craft, and is the archive's inference.
Sources: Sea-Doo OnBoard 24 July 2012
Recognition
The IJSBA's hall of fame roster lists Bo Dupriest among its inductees of 2007, and the association's announcement of that year's ceremony, as reposted by jetskiworld.gr, names him among the 15 it calls competitors. Both print names only; the archive reads the name as his.
Sources: IJSBA hall of fame page; IJSBA 2007 hall announcement (repost)
Elsewhere in the archive
- Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
- Era: The makers and their machines
- Era: The rule book years
What the archive has not read (2)
- Sea-Doo's blog post of 6 September 2012 on its 1994 season, known here only through a quotation from the Internet Archive's capture, calls a Bo Dupriest the 1992 National Champion and credits him with the 1994 Pro Runabout National title; no result sheet of either season is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19).
- No document read says who founded Neptune Racing or when it began; the 1998 handbook prints his name beside the firm without a title (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19).
Documents cited on this page
- PWI Paturel to Yamaha 2001 (web.archive.org): Paturel's With Yamaha Now (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online news, captured June 2001), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 2001; editorial, medium. A short news item from the magazine's site on her team, machine and classes for the 2001 season. Period trade press by an independent publisher, so medium; the held text is the page reduced to text.
- IJSBA HydroDrag World Finals 2013 podium (ijsba.com): Riva 2013 Hydrodrag World Champion Podium Finishers Announced (IJSBA news post, 5 November 2013), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2013-11-05; sanctioning body, high. The association's post of the results it received from the 2013 RIVA Racing IJSBA HydroDrag World Finals: three names and a make per class, in order, with no placing numbers printed. High for the results the association published. The held copy is an excerpt (the first two Hydro Stock names).
- Group K Between the Lines 1997 (groupk.com): Between The Lines - January 97 to December 97 (Group K, groupk.com), Group K, 1997; enthusiast media, medium. The same shop's comments on the technical items in the PWC magazines of 1997, issue by issue, kept on its site under the heading January 97 to December 97. Read on 2026-10-05 and held as text; the page is current and no earlier capture is held, so the dating rests on the heading and the issue-by-issue layout. Medium as a trade participant's period commentary, cited only for which products it names as existing.
- Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998 (archive.org): Sea-Doo Racing Handbook, 1998 edition (Bombardier Inc.; Internet Archive item manualzilla-id-6025632, OCR excerpts), Bombardier Inc., held by the Internet Archive, 1998; manufacturer primary, medium. The craft maker's racing handbook for Sea-Doo racers, dated 1998 by the Internet Archive's item title (its text lists 1996 IJSBA champions and paint codes to 1997). Read from the OCR text on 2026-10-16. Its Aftermarket Manufacturers section lists makers the craft maker says it recommends, each with a line of goods in brackets: Factory Pipe (Exhaust Systems), Hot Products (Racing Parts), Ocean Pro Engineering (Race Parts and Flame Arresters), Westcoast Performance Products (Racing Parts and Carbon Fiber Hulls) and others; its 787 engine section names a Factory Pipe exhaust; a page quotes the Westcoast Performance Products racing team manager. Medium: an independent maker's document, read as OCR, and the list is its recommendation, not a test. Held as excerpts with addresses and telephone numbers removed.
- Sea-Doo OnBoard 24 July 2012 (web.archive.org): X-TEAM TUESDAY: Snyder and Baldwin give Sea-Doo 1-1 win in Pro Stock and Pro Open at Virginia National (Sea-Doo OnBoard, 24 July 2012, Wayback capture), Sea-Doo OnBoard (BRP), 2012-07-24; manufacturer primary, medium. A maker's blog post on the 2012 IJSBA Virginia National, read from a Wayback capture of the blog's tag page. It is the maker's own account of its riders' results; the round's sheet is not held.
- IJSBA hall of fame page (ijsba.com): The Jacobsen-Stjernstrom IJSBA Hall of Fame (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association; sanctioning body, high. The association's own roster, read on 22 September 2026, giving the hall's name, its creation and dedication in 2006, and inductees by year to 2014, names only. It publishes no selection criteria and no citation for anyone.
- IJSBA 2007 hall announcement (repost) (jetskiworld.gr): IJSBA announces 2nd Annual Hall of Fame Ceremony (jetskiworld.gr repost of the association's 2007 announcement), jetskiworld.gr, reposting the International Jet Sports Boating Association; enthusiast media, medium. The association's announcement of the 2007 hall of fame ceremony as reposted, naming fifteen competitor inductees and the two Lifetime Achievement inductees, Ken Stuart and Bill Chapin. Medium as a repost; the original was not found (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-09). One email address is removed from the held copy.
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