When 22-year-old Nick Imprescia, the son of legendary offshore racing throttleman Joey Imprescia whose career spanned the 1980s and 1990s, started competing in the sport he often heard he “had big shoes to fill.” Though Imprescia, who earned this first Mod V-class world title last November in the Race World Offshore Championships in Key West, […]
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Despite snow falling for much of last week in Fond du Lac, Wis., the mood inside an obscure Mercury Racing facility stayed smoking hot. That’s because Speed On The Water and Scrapyard Media transformed the humble structure into a video studio. And it was one complete with the company’s bubble windows, the kind you find […]
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Manufactured in Rome, the first Canados Yachts Gladiator 411 Carbon Series sportboat imported into the United States thanks to Scot Conrad of SLT Collection in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., made its U.S. debut during the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in late October. Since then, Conrad, who visited the Italian boat builder’s manufacturing facility last week, […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: Cigarette Victory At Sea –> With the Old School team officially retired, Cigarette Racing Team didn’t have much representation——with the exception of Justice League—on the racecourse at the Race World Offshore World Championships in Key West, Fla., last month. But the Opa-Locka, Fla.-headquartered V-bottom and center […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Sequence Of The Week, II: PlayTradez Glass With Jackhammer –> For the Super Stock-class PlayTradez team of Randy Sweers and Bryan Marquardt, Key West, Fla., has been a less-than-kind offshore racing venue. Fridays, as it happens, have been particularly rough on the team and its 32-foot Doug Wright raceboat. For […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Sequence Of The Week: Sheriff Lobo Takes A Quick Spin –> When it came to spectacular spin-outs during last week’s offshore powerboat racing world championships in Key West, Fla., the V-bottom classes delivered immediately, starting Friday when the Mod V-class Sheriff Lobo raceboat piloted by Shameel Mohammed and Pete Riviero […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: Pure Key West Joy, Lilly Style –> Among the photos that stood out from yesterday’s raceboat parade down Duval Street in Key West, Fla., the best one barely involved a boat. The image captured Brit Lilly and his wife, Amanda, riding the hitch between the Huski […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: Happy Halloween From Mini Taylor Scism –> Based on the amount of times his Facebook post was shared and the 500-plus likes the share on our Speedonthewater.com Friends Facebook group received, you’ve probably seen the incredibly adorable images that Iowa’s Cody McDowell, the driver of the […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: CELSIUS Warms Up –> With the first race of the American Power Boat Association/Union International Motonautique Offshore World Championships for the catamaran classes in Key West, Fla., exactly two weeks away, teams are busy with final prep and testing before they head for the city at […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: Your Friendly Neighborhood Fountain –> Captured by contributing photographer Jeff Helmkamp during last Saturday’s Performance Boat Center Fall Fun Run on the Lake of the Ozarks, a photo of a colorful—and not-so-strangely familiar—Fountain Powerboats 42 Poker Run Run Edition sportboat caught our eyes. The 42-footer powered […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: DCB Breaks Own Formation Record –> During the late-August Lake of the Ozarks Shootout and concurrent Super Cat Fest events in Central Missouri, eight DCB Performance Boats catamaran owners ran in a then-record-setting formation of models from the El Cajon, Calif., company. And speedonthewater.com chief photographer […]
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Created: September 25, 2022 by: Written by Jason Johnson The 30th annual Emerald Coast Powerboat Week Poker Run wrapped up yesterday and the entire show—from the parties at AJ’s to the Miss Powerboat Week bikini contest at Harry T’s—was as exciting as ever. The team behind the Florida Powerboat Club, which organized the event in […]
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With the Lake Cumberland Poker Run going off in Kentucky this weekend, there won’t be a whole lot of quiet time at State Dock, the event’s host venue, or pretty much anywhere else in the area. The annual end-of-season happening is a high-energy affair, the last organized go-fast boating event of the year on the […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: Air Torrente At The Lake Of The Ozarks –> As friends, fans and colleagues of Shaun Torrente, we appreciate his approach to speed on the water. A few years ago on Friday before the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout in Central Missouri, we caught a ride […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: The DCB Breakfast Club –> So there speedonthewater.com chief photographer Pete Boden was yesterday morning, capturing images in advance of this weekend’s Lake of the Ozarks Shootout top-speed competition in Central Missouri, when eight DCB Performance Boats catamarans happened to roar—in formation no less—under the helicopter […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: Tilt, Take Two –> Dubbed “Weekend At Ronnie’s,” last weekend’s informal gathering of 14 Skater Powerboats catamarans in the Detroit Metro area boasted some of the best-known hardware on the water from the Douglas, Mich., builder. Among those rides was Tilt, Ed Tirakian’s vibrant 40-footer, and […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: The Wrong Stuff –> A new paring for the 2022 offshore racing season, rookie throttleman Alex Pratt and veteran driver Miles Jennings cannot catch a break, a common euphemism for “luck” as the Class 1 cockpit duo has already seen plenty of breakage. The team saw […]
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<!– Uncategorized: Image Of The Week: Air St. Clair –> Not known as a big-water race for obvious reasons, Michigan’s St. Clair River Classic does occasionally produce some wild aerial moments. Between sporty-plus wakes and strong currents, the aquamarine waterway can get sloppy, especially when you have 47 teams roughing it up as they did […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Week: Choose Your Castle –> Fun fact: There are 1,864 islands in the St. Lawrence River between the United States and Canada. But “visit the 1,864 Islands” didn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Going with 1,000 Islands kept things simpler. Or the first folks to visit the […]
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<!– Image of the Week: Image Of The Year? MTI 390X Versus Stunt Plane –> By reporting on some of his newest toys from the likes of Marine Technology Inc., Midnight Express Boats, Nor-Tech Hi-Performance Boats and more, and seeing his radical performance boats at events up and down the East Coast, we’ve come across […]
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