<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: Below Sea Level In Cocoa Beach –> Rough-water races deliver the kind of high-flying action we all love, and speedonthewater.com chief photographer Pete Boden delivered dozens of them from yesterday’s American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series season-opener in Cocoa Beach, Fla. But when it […]

<!– Racing: Play Tradez Steps Up As Title Sponsor For Great Lakes Grand Prix –> The fifth race of the American Power Boat Association Offshore Championship Series, the August 3-7 Great Lakes Grand Prix in Michigan City, Ind., has a new title sponsor this year. Play Tradez, an online investment portal launched in late 2021, […]

<!– Racing: Leaving No Doubt: APBA National Championship Series Opens With A Bang In Cocoa Beach –> During the final race of the 2022 Thunder On Cocoa Beach season opener for the American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series campaign, Billy Moore and Chris Grant were in command in their 388 Skater Powerboats catamaran, […]

<!– Racing: Photo Essay: Testing In Cocoa Beach –> Though the first race of the day at Thunder On Cocoa, the season-opener for the American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series, in the books—speedonthewater.com contributing editor Eric Colby is covering the event and will have a full report by the end of the day—some […]

<!– Magazine: Inside SOTW Mag: Sun-Stoppable—Sunsation Turns 40 –> Many years ago, I was talking with the late Paul Fiore, founder of Hustler Powerboats (and father of the late Outerlimits founder Mike Fiore), about single- engine offshore-style performance boats. When I asked him which offerings he liked, he said, “Sunsation has a really nice 25-footer.” […]

<!– Racing: Family Reunion—And Fierce Competition—On Tap In Cocoa Beach –> With last night’s street parade and celebration in downtown Cocoa Beach, Fla., in the books, it’s testing day for the 56 teams in town for tomorrow’s main event, the first race of the American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series. Teams will make […]

<!– Event Coverage: Scenes From Cocoa Beach: New CMR Raceboat Debut And More –> With last night’s welcome party for teams and VIP-package offshore racing fans at Juice ‘N Java, the 2022 season officially kicked off in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Thunder on Cocoa Beach, the first of eight races in the American Power Boat Association […]

<!– In the News: Kuttawa Cannonball Run At 100 Boats And Counting –> No one was more pleasantly surprised when the 2021 Kuttawa Cannonball Run reached 180 registered boats than Jeff Hoefling, Terry Martin and Stephen Miles, the organizers of the Kentucky-based event. But with current registration for the June 3-4 run on Barkley Lake […]

<!– Racing: Pratt And Jennings Notch First Practice Session In Class 1 345 Racing/XINSURANCE Raceboat –> A little more than 48 hours from now, the six-boat Union International Motonautique Class 1 fleet will vie for top honors in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Not only is Sunday’s Powerboat P1-produced event the first contest in the eight-race American […]

<!– Projects: Outerlimits SV 43 Raceboat Gets Full Waves And Wheels Treatment –> Although he didn’t take the boat back home to Texas following last weekend’s Performance Boat Center Spring Fun Run on Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks, Heath Kirkwood got his first opportunity to run his 2017 Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats SV 43 canopied raceboat […]

<!– In the News: Sunsation ‘Sun Run’ Coming To Lake St. Clair –> Between pandemic restrictions and booming demand for its center consoles, Sunsation Boats of Algonac, Mich., hasn’t held a customer-appreciation day on the water for a few years. That will change come August 4 with the company’s Sun Run, which celebrates the high-performance […]

<!– Racing: Powerboat P1 Releases Broadcast Plans For UIM Class 1 World Championship Series –> For offshore racing fans, the long wait—sixth months—between the 2021 Race World Offshore-produced world championships in Key West, Fla., and the first race of the 2022 American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series is almost finished. The season-opener in […]

<!– Featured Boat: Featured Boat: 2021 Mystic M4200 –> Offered by TNT Marine Sales of Miami, this 2012 Mystic Powerboats M4200 center console is powered by quad Mercury Racing 450R outboard engines with 139 operating hours. According to the listing, the engines are under warranty until February 12, 2024. The 42-footer, which is outfitted with […]

<!– Racing: Play Tradez And The Long Road Back To Cocoa Beach –> One moment, veteran offshore racing throttleman Randy Sweers was setting up for the notoriously treacherous first turn on the four-plus-mile racecourse in Key West, Fla., in Play Tradez, a new 32-foot Doug Wright Super Stock-class raceboat. The next, he had the tip […]

<!– In the News / People: Two-Woman Team Designs New Sea-Ray SLX 260 –> Popular as they are in the general powerboating world, Sea Ray products rarely appear on speedonthwater.com. We’ve reported on exactly one product in 13 years—the aggressively styled Sundancer 370 Outboard sport cruiser released in 2021—from the Knoxville, Tenn., Brunswick Boat Group-owned […]

<!– Racing: APBA Offshore National Championship Series Season-Opener At 55 Teams—And Counting –> With six days to go before the first green flag flies for the season-opener of the eight-race American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series in Cocoa Beach, Fla., 55 teams spread across 11 classes had registered as of this afternoon. Registration […]

<!– Event Coverage: Highlights From The Kort 200–3.0, Part Two –> Although I fell behind on some reporting duties starting on Mother’s Day and throughout the rest of the week thanks to celebrating with my wife and mom, jumping on some breaking news stories and filming a couple of upcoming episodes of In The Lead […]

<!– Event Coverage: Florida Powerboat Club Taps Into Orange Beach Juice With Third Annual Poker Run –> Heading home yesterday from the third annual Florida Powerboat Club Orange Beach Powerboat Week poker run, club president Stu Jones offered a philosophical take on the Alabama-based happening. The sold-out event, which incorporated a two-day poker-run format, attracted […]

<!– People: Celebration Of Life Event For Gary Goodell Set For Cocoa Beach –> When Gary Goodell, one of the driving forces behind the Miss GEICO team, died in February at age 71, the offshore powerboat racing world lost one of its most colorful and passionate figures. To celebrate his legacy and contributions to the […]