When the last two events of the 2022/2023 Fort Myers Offshore season—the April 1 Cayo Costa Raft-Up and the April 22 Nor-Tech-backed happening—are in the books, Fort Myers Offshore president Tim Hill and his wife, Cyndee, a board-member of the nonprofit scholarship-fundraising powerboat club, will exhale much-deserved sighs of relief. And for good reason, because […]
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10 Interesting Facts about Wildlife Hunting in the US Hunting has been around for decades. History has stories of Native Americans who were buffalo hunters, among other interesting figures. There are also stories about Pilgrims learning how to hunt fowl and deer, which they learned from the Indians. Additionally, a prominent public figure and planter […]
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A fleet of 47 offshore racing yachts will line up to make sailing history when they contest Australia’s second oldest blue water yacht race – the Gladstone Ports Corporation 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race (B2G) which sets sail on Good Friday (7th April 2023). Entries closed on Monday, 20th March with the milestone running […]
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An Open Door Step into Door County Wisconsin’s “thumb” where history, beautiful landscapes, and awesome food make it worth the visit. Wisconsin is known for many things, and I’m not only referring to “cheese heads” and the Green Bay Packers. It’s “America’s Dairyland,” home of the first ice cream sundae. It also has one of […]
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Weekly Market Outlook By Keith Schneider and Donn Goodman Confusion, or even chaos, has been an accurate way to describe the stock and bond market moves, the economic outlook, and the sentiment of investors over the last few months. As a result, risk and hopefully opportunity, have also likely been on your mind […]
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With the first offshore powerboat race of the 2023 season—the Race World Offshore-produced 7 Mile Grand Prix in Marathon, Fla.—a little more than a month away, movement among teams is showing no signs of slowing down. Case in point is the Mod-V-class Relentless/Laticrete team owned by Travis Petko of Maryland, which recently added Laticrete-backed throttleman […]
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Freedom Boat Club Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach and St. Augustine took home top honors at the 2023 Freedom Forum, the company’s annual franchise conference. Freedom Boat Club, a division of Brunswick Corporation, handed out awards to franchise owners from across the country during the five-day event which also featured engaging workshops that allowed an exchange of […]
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Hubbell Marine Electrical Products and Ward’s Marine Electric are celebrating their 60th anniversary. This collaboration is marked with a strong distributor relationship, manufacturing partnership and shared desire to improve the marine electrical experience. Ward’s Marine Electric was founded in 1950 by Ward Eshleman Sr. It has remained a family-owned south Florida business known for marine […]
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Mercury Racing’s new V10 400R outboard. Courtesy Mercury Racing The Wide Open gang at Mercury Racing kicked off its 50th Anniversary celebration at the Miami International Boat Show with the introduction of an all-new V10 400R outboard model. This motor will replace the supercharged 2.6-liter L6 400R, a model that may be the best-selling outboard […]
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iKon Boats has Officially Entered the Bass Boat Industry MADISONVILLE, TN – HCB Yachts proudly introduces the new iKon boat brand to the marketplace with their first LX21 and LX20 editions, with plans for the first VLX series to follow in late 2023 and early 2024. iKon Boats has officially entered the bass boat industry to […]
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Three years ago, Ron Muller of Electronics Unlimited in Stuart, Fla., invited a few of friends who—like him—own Skater Powerboats catamarans for a fun run and photo session across the state in Sarasota. The intimate event typically draws about a dozen creations from the Douglas, Mich., builder, and this year’s go-round last Friday was true […]
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In an announcement released Friday night, the organizers of the largest unsanctioned boat race in the United States of America—the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout in Central Missouri—publicized that they are teaming up with the Union Internationale Motonautique and the American Power Boat Association to add a kilo run to this year’s event, which takes […]
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With Super Stock-class Jackhammer throttleman Ricky Maldonado moving to the 450R Factory Stock class after three seasons with the Illinois-based team, owner/driver Reese Langheim had to find a new throttleman for the upcoming season. But he didn’t have to look far as Maldonado’s son, Julian, will throttle the team’s 32-foot Victory catamaran. The son or […]
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“ In the Spirit of the original 1973 Whitbread Race” Celebrating its 50th Anniversary. The Golden Age of fully crewed ocean racing around the world seems a distant memory. Huge budgets and elite professionals racing custom carbon yachts that ‘fly’ on €800,000 foils steered by sophisticated autopilots, not sailors, where shore teams via satellite are […]
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In an announcement today, Nimbus Group has acquired EdgeWater Power Boats and entered a strategic partnership that will solidify and expand their reach and investments in the U.S., the single largest powerboat market in the world. Every brand has a story. EdgeWater Power Boats’ story just added a new chapter to its long history in […]
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PHOTO COURTESY OF RETHOS FACEBOOK The National Park Service has awarded Rethos — a St. Paul, Minnesota-based historic preservation nonprofit — the Duluth Harbor North Pierhead Lighthouse, after the U.S. Coast Guard announced in 2021 it no longer had need of the property, reports MPR News. Built in 1910, the 43-foot lighthouse is situated at […]
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Thanks to extensive searching and traveling by one of the outfit’s newest members, Randy Kent, the American-based XINSURANCE/Good Boy Vodka team has upgraded its boat for competition in the 2023 Union Internationale Motonautique Class 1 World Championship produced by international powerboat racing promoter Powerboat P1. The team, which is owned by XINSURANCE’s Rick J. Lindsey […]
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Grouper get big, really big. But have you ever wondered what they look like when they’re the size of a cherry tomato? The life history of most game fishes is pretty amazing. Although some species may grow to more than 1,000 pounds, all begin life as one of millions of eggs the size of a […]
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Released last week on the Mercury Racing YouTube channel, the first segment of Water Street Confidential featuring the Fond du Lac, Wis., company’s director of customer experience Steve Miller and Double R Performance co-owner Peter Robert runs 5-1/2-minutes. For that episode, Scrapyard Media and Speed On The Water captured a little more than an hour […]
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With more than six decades of manufacturing one of the most globally recognized brand of boats in the marine industry, Sea Ray is celebrating 50 years at its Merritt Island, Fla. facility and honoring the location’s history and achievements. Sea Ray first made its home in Florida when it set up a design and development […]
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