Barletta Releases New Reserve Flagship

PHOTO COURTESY OF BARLETTA Combining luxury, innovation and design, Barletta has released its most innovative and luxurious model yet, its new flagship Barletta Reserve. Featuring a host of innovative features, the Reserve takes the craftsmanship and quality Barletta is known for to the next level. Upgraded features throughout the boat were made with the owner […]

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Godfrey Launches Brand New Luxury Series for 2024

PHOTO COURTESY OF GODFREY PONTOONS Godfrey Pontoons announced the launch of a new family for the 2024 model season. The new Godfrey XP Series delivers a high level of comfort combined with the most advanced technology available, all packaged in a sleek, modern design. The fully digital helm features an intuitive custom user interface that […]

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How to launch a boat from a trailer

Keen to take the stress out of slipway work? Boating instructor Jon Mendez shares his essential guide on how to launch a boat from a trailer… For many of us, our introduction to boating would have been a small trailer-launched boat that we towed to the water whenever we fancied getting afloat. If it was […]

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Outerlimits Adding Eight-Seat Open-Cockpit 46 SC Catamaran

Of the three best-known Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats SC 46 catamaran currently boiling the waters, two of them—Burton and Yvette Kirsten’s Jet and Jason and Laurie Moe’s Hurry Up—have full canopies. Only the third, Jeremy and Kristie Tschida’s Topless, has an open cockpit and that cat was converted from its original canopied form. New deck tooling […]

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Swimming with humpback whales

Having paused their Pacific cruise in Mo’orea, Josh Shankle and Rachel Moore find wonderment swimming with humpback whales “Slip into the water, don’t jump. Try not to splash, and follow me,” our guide Torea hurriedly told us as the panga-style boat slowed to a stop, only 100m away from a sleeping giant. “Stay together, stay […]

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How MasterCraft Builds Boats

.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } MasterCraft has come a long way since Rob Shirley founded the company in 1968. They quickly made a mark in the watersports industry due […]

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NMMA reports boating’s economic impact soars

NMMA recently announced new data which found the annual economic impact of recreational boating increased 36%, from $170B in 2018 to $230B in 2023. The industry’s contributions to the U.S. workforce grew as well, with an 18% increase in jobs supported, from 691,000 in 2018 to more than 812,000 in 2023. Conducted by John Dunham […]

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IBEX 2023 to grow into refreshed TCC space

The International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition and Conference (IBEX) announced the new construction on the Tampa Convention Center (TCC) will be completed in time for IBEX 2023, to be held October 3 – 5, 2023, in Tampa, Florida. The renovation project is the largest ever for the TCC and will result in an expanded third floor exhibit […]

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Cocoa Beach Wrap Up: The Last Lap Is The One That Matters

In the highly anticipated, season-opening Class 1 World Championships Series competition at the Thunder On Cocoa Beach offshore powerboat race Sunday, owner/driver Darren Nicholson and throttleman Giovanni Carpitella looked to have everything in control in their 47-foot Victory catamaran, 222 Offshore Australia. They had qualified on the pole and took the lead as soon as […]

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