Just outside Havasu Springs, Ariz., at the southern end of Lake Havasu, the first card stop of the Desert Storm Poker Run on Lake Havasu is an unusual sight. It’s just a big old barge, but one loaded with women in bikinis, a waterslide, sponsor banners, a makeshift Wozencraft Insurance Agency “office” and whatever else […]
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To cap off its milestone anniversary celebration that included the first year of a new organizing committee, the 25th annual Desert Storm Poker Run in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., concluded with a record-setting performance in Saturday’s Shugrue’s Shootout, the three-quarter-mile top-speed contest in front of Lake Havasu’s Site Six launch ramp on the south side […]
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In the absence of a Miami International Boat Show in 2021, Florida Powerboat Club head Stu Jones created a show of his own for the club’s Miami Boat Show Poker Run. The in-water and land-based displays at Gilbert’s Resort and Tiki Bar in Key Largo were far from one-to-one replacements for those the scrubbed Miami […]
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Just two years in, opinions remain mixed on the Miami International Boat Show’s return to the convention center and its traditional in-water display across Biscayne Bay at the Venetian Yacht Club and Marina. But one thing is certain: Thanks to the Florida Powerboat Club and Speed On The Water, presenting sponsor Doug Wright Powerboats and […]
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For years, the Florida Powerboat Club’s Miami Boat Show Bash was the place to be on Friday night during the Miami International Boat Show, which is set for February 15-19 this year. Show-going club members in town for the following weekend’s Miami Boat Show Poker Run and their special guests mingled with high-profile marine industry […]
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No matter how much money and effort you throw at it, recovering from a natural disaster such as Hurricane Ian, which pummeled Southwest Florida in late September 2022, takes time. Less than a month ago, there was still too much floating debris and too many submerged hazards in the water for Fort Myers Offshore to […]
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For more than a decade, South Florida-based Brand X Hi-Performance Marine principal Jason Ventura and Bill Pyburn, Jr., his longtime customer and friend who lives in the northern part of the state, have worked closely together on the well-known and respected custom high-performance powerboat enthusiast’s many exquisite catamarans. But come 2023, they’ll be sharing the […]
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<!– In the News: Racing To Rebuild-Themed 2022 Key West Bash Raises $105,000 For Charities –> Let’s call it a good thing that there was more accounting involved than past years following the ninth annual Speed On The Water Key West Bash held almost two weeks ago in conjunction with the Race World Offshore-produced Offshore […]
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<!– Magazine: Inside SOTW Mag: Comeback Of The Year In The 1,000 Islands –> Despite steady growth in its first three years, there were no guarantees—as in zero—that the 1,000 Islands Charity Poker Run would make a strong comeback after a two-year pandemic- fueled break. Event organizers Alexandra Buduson, Bobby Cantwell, Ken and Renee Lalonde, […]
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<!– In the News: Wozencraft Providing Lunch And Party Support For Key West Poker Run –> Although this year’s Key West Poker Run hosted by the Florida Powerboat Club is set to offer a few brand-specific lunch stops on both the Wednesday and Thursday runs from Miami to Key West, Fla., a majority of the […]
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<!– In the News: Howe 2 Live Dry Tortugas Experience Up For Grabs At Key West Bash Auction –> You better believe it. Along with four incredible poker run experiences, three exclusive Key West, Fla.-based offshore racing experiences with the CMR, M CON and TS Motorsports teams, and a custom-painted skateboard and shot-ski from the […]
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<!– In the News: Score The Ultimate Custom Shot-Ski At The ‘Racing To Rebuild’ SOTW Key West Bash –> A powerboat painter of above-average quality—OK, rock-star quality—Stephen Miles has produced several shot-skis for various go-fast boating event charity auctions. During the 2022 Kuttawa Cannonball Run auction, which the Owensboro, Ky., graphics man helps organize, a […]
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If you’ve ever imagined yourself taking a hot lap with top talent in a Super Cat, Super Stock or 450R Factory Stock offshore raceboat, join us Thursday, November 10 from 7 p.m. at the Sandbar Sports Grill at 511 Greene Street in Key West, Fla., for the eighth annual Speed On The Water Key West […]
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With three full days of competition in the Super Cat, Super Stock and Class 1 categories, the concurrent American Power Boat Association Offshore World Championships and finale of Class 1 World Championship Series, November 6-13, in Key West, Fla., will not lack for offshore racing action. But the annual Key West Worlds, as they’ve come […]
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Armed with an insurance license and a long list of marine community connections thanks to his drag boat-racing talents and decades of service to multiple racing organizations, Tony Scarlata recently joined the team at Wozencraft Insurance and Finance and is going to be working out of the Southern California-based company’s soon-to-be-opened office in Lake Havasu […]
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<!– In the News: Nor-Tech Owners Fun Run Set For Lake Of The Ozarks –> Nor-Tech owners headed to Lake of the Ozarks for Shootout week, August 24-28, will have an event of their own to enjoy on the Central Missouri waterway. Dubbed the Lake of the Ozarks Nor-Tech Owners Fun Run, the Midwest Boating […]
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Multi-time world champion drag boat racer Tony Scarlata, best known for covering a 1000-foot liquid race track in record time, will now be covering boaters with insurance, in presumably the same manner. Scarlata recently received his insurance license and will be taking his talents into the marine insurance market by teaming up with California-based Wozencraft […]
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