Timed with the launch of a new ready-to-drink vodka cocktail called Huski Ice Spritz and yesterday’s Sports Business Journal announcement that Huski Chocolate—a Swedish premium chocolate milk brand and prominent motorsports sponsor—is rebranding its champion Indy Car with new Ice Spritz livery for the upcoming Indy 500, Huski President and CEO Mika Manninen informed speedonthewater.com […]
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Heading into its second season as the primary sponsor of the Super Stock-class Ignite offshore racing team, CELSIUS® energy drink is making the most of its opportunity to showcase what the publicly traded company bills as “a better-for-you alternative to other high-sugar energy drinks on the market.” The team’s 32-foot Doug Wright Powerboats catamaran will […]
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Though the 151 Express team owner Jorge Arellano, a significant booster of offshore racing’s Mod V class who typically likes to keep his name out of the media, reportedly hasn’t made a “final decision” on whether Nick Imprescia and Ian Morgan will reprise their roles as Mod V-class racers this season, smart money says they’ll […]
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Though participants in yesterday’s Joey Gratton Memorial New Year’s Day Fun Run in Sarasota, Fla., woke to a blanket of fog—not uncommon in the area this time of year—the 11th annual happening celebrating the life of the beloved offshore racer put the exclamation point on three fine days of boating in Southwest Florida. Friday’s lunch […]
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For the past several years, a lunch run from Sarasota to Tampa has been the first of two casual, back-to-back events leading up to the annual Joey Gratton New Year’s Day Fun in Southwest Florida. But today’s lunch trek had a different destination, thanks to new organizer Scott Ryerson of Sarasota-based Suncoast Powerboat and Yacht […]
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East Coast surfers love New Smyrna Beach, Fla., during the winter—the only better time to catch big Atlantic Ocean waves there is hurricane season. Open to swells from all angles and loaded with sandbars that produce perfect right- and left-hand peaks, New Smyrna Beach is a consistent winner for wave-riders who don’t mind a little […]
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<!– New Products: Mystic M5200 Update: Three Months And 2,000 Miles Later –> The owner and founder of Mystic Powerboats in Deland, Fla., John Cosker recalls putting 2,000 miles and 100-plus operating hours on his company’s most recent M4200 center console “demo boat.” It took Cosker and company a little more than a year to […]
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Created: September 26, 2022 by: Written by Eric Colby During last Saturday’s test session before the 13th annual Baystar Clearwater ‘Nationals’ offshore powerboat race ahead of yesterday’s main event, owner/throttleman Tyler Miller and driver Myrick Coil weren’t happy with how their M CON Skater 388 catamaran felt. With time in the testing window for the […]
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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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Though the first Race World Offshore-produced event of the 2022 season is called the Baystar Clearwater ‘Nationals’ per longstanding tradition, the September 23-25 event in the Southwest Florida actually is the penultimate contest in the eight-race American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series and the fifth of eight races in the concurrent Class 1 […]
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With a hard spin in the first turn on the first lap of the St. Petersburg Grand Prix in Southwest Florida, the Super Cat M CON team’s race for the checkered flag last weekend ended abruptly and early. Neither owner/throttleman Tyler Miller nor driver Myrick Coil was injured when their Skater Powerboats 388 catamaran swapped […]
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Buoyed by a second-place finish in their first Class 1 outing last weekend at the St. Petersburg Grand Prix in Southwest Florida, the df Young team of owner/throttleman Rich Wyatt and driver Marc Granet plans to order a set of Mercury Racing 1100 Comp engines for their 50-foot Mystic raceboat this week. Though the team […]
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After qualifying in lane No. 1 for the Class 1 race at the St. Petersburg Grand Prix presented by Visit St. Pete/Clearwater and produced by P1 Offshore, the 47-foot Victory, Huski Chocolate, had the advantage that driver Travis Pastrana and throttleman Steve Curtis coveted heading into the fourth race yesterday. A combination of advantageous lane […]
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On the eve of the St. Petersburg Grand Prix in Southwest Florida, P1 Offshore again held pole-position qualifying for Class 1 and Super Cat and the common denominator among the teams that grabbed the first and second lanes for tomorrow’s race was a quality, experienced driver. The key to taking the prized inside lane at […]
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In a welcome change of plans for offshore powerboat racing fans, today’s Mod V, Stock V and Bracket-class racing and pole-position qualifying rounds at the St. Petersburg Grand Prix in Southwest Florida will be streamed live on the P1 Offshore website and Facebook page. Led by veteran broadcaster and former offshore racer Mike Yowaiski, racing […]
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Offshore racing fans hoping to catch the debut of the new Class 1 Team Defalco outfit and the return of Dramatized Offshore Racing to the Super Cat ranks in this weekend’s St. Petersburg Grand Prix in Southwest Florida will have to wait a bit longer. Those teams, plus two in the Super Stock class, have […]
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And the plot—as the saying goes—thickens. Two weeks ago, Jeff Stevenson, the owner and driver of the JBS Racing 42-foot MTI catamaran currently competing in the Class 1 World Championship Series produced by P1 Offshore, ordered a 46-foot raceboat from Skater Powerboats. Lamination of the canopied catamaran began this week. Lamination is underway for the […]
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Offshore racing returns this weekend to Southwest Florida with the St. Petersburg Grand Prix, the sixth event in the eight-race American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series and the fourth of eight contests in the Union International Motonautique Class 1 World Championship Series. For the second consecutive year, P1 Offshore is producing the St. […]
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Though the 450R Factory Stock-class KLOVAR Motorsports and TS Motorsports teams have gone head to head several times this season, neither has scored points in the American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series under the sanctioning-body’s three-boat minimum for points accrual. That will change this weekend at the St. Petersburg Grand Prix, the third […]
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The next round of offshore racing action takes place over Labor Day weekend, September 3-4, as P1 Offshore presents the Powerboat Grand Prix in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. All classes of offshore race teams will be competing, as well as the AquaX personal watercraft racing series, and promises to be an exciting two days of […]
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