<!– Event Coverage: Toys Tour Goes Star-Studded With 110-Boat Fleet –> From a timing perspective, the annual Toys Tour event on the St. Johns Rivers seems ripe for failure. It happens in Palatka, Fla., on the first weekend in December, which isn’t inherently “bad,” but the happening does follow the Offshore Powerboat Association Englewood Beach […]
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<!– In the News: Speed On The Water ‘In The Lead’ Video Series Returning In 2023 –> Flashback from late 2020: Speedonthewater.com co-publisher Jason Johnson and I were driving back from a business meeting, meaning a mountain bike ride, when the idea for the Speed On The Water “In The Lead” documentary-style video series was […]
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<!– Racing: Norway-Based Sudrheim Offshore Racing Team Coming To Class 1 –> When the 2023 Union Internationale Motonautique Class 1 season opens next spring, the new Sudrheim Offshore Racing team of Norway will be in the mix with teams from Australia, Sweden and the United States. But while the team is new to the Powerboat […]
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<!– In the News: Mystic Bringing M5200 Center Console And More To Toys Tour –> If you’ve followed the Toys Tour, an annual powerboat-owner-fueled gift drive for children in need, you’ve probably noticed that new-model-year boats are in short supply. By the time the Palatka, Fla., event rolls around late in the year—December 2-4 this […]
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<!– In the News: Cigarette Racing Team Backing Toys Tour Fun Run –> One of the last—if not the last—significant organized go-fast boating events of the season, the annual Toys Tour in Palatka, Fla., is set for December 2-4. The gift-gathering event for children in need has grown during the years since it was founded […]
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<!– Event Coverage: Range Of Experiences Make 30th Key West Poker Run One For The Books –> Looking back at last week’s Florida Powerboat Club Key West Poker Run, New York’s Chris Richards kept things simple. “It sucks when it all ends,” said Richards, who brought his Mystic Powerboats C4400 catamaran and 48-foot Sea Ray […]
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<!– Racing: Key West Worlds Update: Marc Granet And Bobby Adams Running Justice League Super Cat –> When the green flag flies for today’s Super Cat-class contest—the second of two races in the 2022 Race World Offshore-produced Offshore World Championship Series presented by Performance Boat Center—the Justice League Skater Powerboats 388 catamaran will have a […]
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<!– Racing: Class 1 Pivots For The Key West Worlds –> Even the best plans change with the circumstances when necessary. Case in point, Class 1 offshore racing next week at the American Power Boat Association/Union Internationale Motonautique World Championships produced by Race World Offshore and presented by Performance Boat Center in Key West, Fla. […]
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<!– Racing: The End Of One Era Opens Another—Hook And Lucas Oil Parting Ways –> For more than two decades, Nigel Hook, a gentlemen offshore powerboat racer from the United Kingdom who lives in Southern California, has been the public face of Lucas Oil in the sport. And for the 22 years, the company could […]
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<!– In the News: In The Lead 2022 Season Wrapping Up With Bob Teague –> For many years, I sat alongside lead test driver Bob Teague as a co-pilot/data collector during Powerboat magazine’s annual Performance Trials, as did my longtime friend and speedonthewater.com co-publisher, Jason Johnson. For the most part, those 12-hour boat test days […]
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<!– Event Coverage: ‘Crazy’ Fort Lauderdale Show Heads Into Final Day –> With four days of the 2022 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in the books, the Southwest Florida event closes today at 6 p.m. Show breakdown and move out begins tomorrow in earnest. But go-fast powerboat exhibitors including Adrenaline Powerboats, Cigarette Racing Team, Donzi […]
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Mystic Powerboats M5200 Mystic Powerboats has launched its largest center console to date, the luxurious M5200. The new model joins its smaller siblings, M3800 and M4200, in the Florida builder’s lineup. The 52-footer (14′ beam) is powered by quad 600-hp Mercury Marine V12 Verado outboards and can achieve speeds of 80 mph. On board, there […]
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<!– In the News: Brand-Specific Lunch Stops Trending With Florida Powerboat Club Key West Run –> Minus lunch stops, the Florida Powerboat Club’s annual Key West Poker Run, which is slated for November 6-13 and turns 30 this year, would be far easier to plan. Boats would reach their final destination much earlier, which would […]
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The world’s biggest boat show is almost upon us! We pick out the best boats to track down at the 2022 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show. The Fort Lauderdale Boat Show is big. Really big. To give you some idea of how big – last year’s show had 1,300 boats from 1,000 exhibitors, representing 52 countries. […]
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The new 80mph Mystic M5200 rocketship, a veritable Lamborghini of powerboats, looks set to steal the show at FLIBS 2022… Miami to funky Nassau in the Bahamas is a straight-shot 180 miles. At the new Mystic M5200 rocketship’s top speed of 80mph – that’s 70 knots – you’d be there in just over a couple […]
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<!– In the News: Key West Poker Run By The Numbers: MTI Leading The Massive Pack –> If MTI participation numbers keep trending upward—and based on last year’s turnout they likely will—high-performance catamaran and center consoles built by the Wentzville, Mo., company could end up comprising 20 percent of the 250-boat Florida Powerboat Key West […]
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Between 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. tomorrow, seven powerboats will depart the surf-centric city of Huntington Beach, Calif., for a 112-mile roundtrip endurance competition circling Catalina Island. The Around Catalina Island Run is the second event of the 2022 Ocean Cup Series—the first was an endurance run from Palm Beach, Fla., to Freeport, Bahamas, in […]
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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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On Monday morning following the early September Lake Cumberland Poker Run in Kentucky, a text message with a photo appeared on my phone. The message was from Jason Johnson, my partner in speedonwater.com, and it posed a simple question about the generic-looking white catamaran in the attached image. Captured during the Lake Cumberland Poker Run […]
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Although the on-the-go Alex Pratt and I crossed paths a few times during last month’s Lake of the Ozarks Shootout—he even hand-delivered me a Good Boy Vodka John Daly Cocktail, the brand new Iced Tea & Lemonade with vodka drink that is now available to purchase online, at the Performance Boat Center Welcome Party—we didn’t […]
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