Among the participants in last week’s American Power Boat Association annual meeting in Seattle was Race World Offshore president Larry Bleil. Based in Key West, Fla., Race World Offshore is an APBA-member organization, so Bleil departed a family trip to Calgary, Canada and headed for the Northwest for a few days to take in those […]
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Tyler Miller, the owner and throttleman for the Super Cat-class M CON offshore racing team, and driver Myrick Coil can add one more item to their most-recent list of accomplishments that include the 2022 American Power Boat Association National Championship and the 2022 Union Internationale Motonautique World Championship. Last night during the closing celebration for […]
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After an eventful and enduring first year competing in the 2022 Union Internationale Motonautique Class 1 World Championship produced by international powerboat racing promoter Powerboat P1, the XINSURANCE/Good Boy Vodka team has its sights set on a strong 2023 season, which should see at least a half-dozen teams in the class. To enhance the team’s […]
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Although Kathy Latham was as spirited as ever while working at her hometown event—the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show—at the end October, the remarkable woman behind Latham Marine was in the midst of an intense three-year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell in the bone marrow […]
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The owner of the V-Extreme-class Knucklehead Racing team, Ed “Evil” Smith is a strong and patient man. For the past several seasons, he’s run his 40-foot Fountain raceboat uncontested at offshore races around the country and put on a show regardless—all while battling beating cancer without complaint. Despite that the class had withered to one […]
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Though the offshore powerboat racing rumor mill has been working overtime for months on Randy Keys and Bill Allen entering the Super Cat class with the former Dependable Marine Skater 388 raceboat, Keys officially announced the news last night on his Facebook page. The Iowa-based, 40-year-old HVAC and electrical contractor entered the sport last year […]
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When this story goes live, 2023 will be less than 24 hours away. In the meantime, a savvy group of performance boat owners and their friends from across the country have been making the best of what’s left of the current year in Southwest Florida. Yesterday’s lunch run to St. Petersburg and today’s planned fun […]
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Success means something different for everyone. No two measures of it are identical, right? For a long-time performance-boat owner, it can be building the most reliable and seaworthy catamaran of his dreams. For a go-fast boating event organizer, it can be raising a record amount of money for people who need help. For a boat-builder, […]
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So far this year, Speedonthewater.com has attracted 687,560 unique visitors who enjoyed a cool 3,246,084 page views per Google analytics. As remarkable as that traffic is for niche news site, what’s even better is that those numbers are tracked by Google—hence the designation. We can’t manipulate or embellish them. They are what they are. Some […]
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Even the most casual fans of offshore powerboat racing have heard of Jason and Johnny Saris of Bolton Landing, N.Y. The father-and-son duo aren’t just multi-time world champions, they are ambassadors of the sport and exceptional representatives of the Bracket classes that form its foundation. Engaged yesterday after four years of dating, Caitlyn Esancy and […]
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A multi-time award-winning veteran marine industry journalist, Eric Colby will cover the 2023 American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series, the Union Internationale Motonautique Class 1 World Championship, the Race World Offshore Key West World Championships and the Offshore Powerboat Association Englewood Beach Waterfest World Championships in 2023. Colby covered the sport for this […]
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<!– Racing: Smith Brothers Team Exits Offshore Racing After 20-Year Career –> Fans of the Bracket 600-class Smith Brothers racing team—and New Jersey-based owners/brothers Rich and Pete Smith made plenty of them during their 20 years of offshore powerboat racing—cheered on their favorite cockpit duo for the last time at the Offshore Powerboat Association World […]
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<!– Commentary: Inside Englewood Beach: When Normalcy Means The OPA Worlds –> If you’ve ever survived a natural disaster, you wonder when life will be normal again. The basics of survival such as water, food, power and simply having a roof over your head—things you take for granted every day—seem miraculous when they return. Things […]
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<!– Commentary: Commentary: The Lasting Importance Of Bracket-Class Racing –> When Ed “Smitty” Smith took over the Offshore Powerboat Association about 20 years ago, he did more than secure a place to his race Wazzup Viper. He helped secure the future of offshore racing. Throughout the years, the Bracket classes have filled a huge void […]
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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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<!– Racing: OPA Worlds Day 1—Jumpstarting the Recovery –> When Hurricane Ian hit the southwest coast of Florida on September 28, one of the areas struck hard was Englewood Beach. Since then, the town of about 19,300 residents has been busy repairing their homes, cleaning up their yards and getting closer to back to normal. […]
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<!– In the News: New Video: In The Lead with Bob Teague of Teague Custom Marine –> When discussions began in 2020, the point of producing the Speed On The Water “In The Lead” video series with our partners at Scrapyard Media was to feature the most accomplished and innovative racers, builders, influencers and entrepreneurs […]
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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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<!– Racing: APBA Offshore National Championship Series Picture Bright For 2023 –> Though offshore powerboat racing world championship action rightly claimed the spotlight last week in Key West, Fla., those titles weren’t the only important matters resolved during the Race World Offshore-produced event presented by Performance Boat Center and sanctioned by the American Power Boat […]
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<!– Racing: Key West Worlds Finale: Twice as Nice –> After finishing second in day one of Class 1 racing at the offshore racing world championships in Key West., Fla., last Friday, throttleman John Tomlinson and driver Carlos de Quesada in the 49-foot Victory catamaran, Huski/Alegra Motorsports, took advantage of some early chaos to leap […]
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