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A weekly celebration of Nor-Tech H-Performance Boats’ 35th anniversary. Nor-Tech At 35 captures the past, present and future of the Cape Coral, Fla.-based company.. Every Thursday through 2025, a new article on the popular brand will go live on speedonthewater.com. Here’s the complete list of…
From a Monster Energy press conference to offshore racers interviews and video shoots, speedonthewater.com was running flat out before its annual Speed On The Water Key West Bash.
Per tradition, the Florida Powerboat Club will produce its Key West Poker Run Poker Run Village during its early November signature trek to the city at the end of the Florida road—and it’s always a rocking-good display of high-performance powerboats and hardware. But thanks to…
Greg Weber, the ever-personable and understated Chicagoland-based director of sales and dealer development for Mystic Powerboats in DeLand, Fla., has enjoyed an amazing journey from his early days working for the Maxum and Bayliner brands in Arlington, Wash. The 57-year-old Pacific Northwest native eventually moved…
By the time you read this, there’s a more-than-good chance Reese Langheim, who owns Langheim Concrete Service Inc, in Springfield, Ill., and his wife, Sara Elizabeth, will have a floating bar at their waterfront home on the shores of Springfield Lake. “Sara called me the…
With what would have been the 36th annual Sarasota Powerboat Grand Prix cancelled, go-fast powerboat enthusiasts—make that the entire Southwest Florida community—could use some good news. The offshore powerboat race is the lynchpin in the annual weeklong Sarasota Grand Prix Festival benefitting Suncoast Charities For…
Most careful readers—and all Fountain Powerboats fans—learned from a recent speedonthewater.com story that the company is offering its new 42 Lightning with a choice of left-hand (per Fountain tradition) or right-hand throttles and shifters. As it turns out, that’s not just a first for the…
Optimistic by nature, Race World Offshore president and founder Larry Bleil had held out hope, despite having the COVID-19 odds stacked against it, that Dunkirk, N.Y., would be able to host the third annual RWO Great Lakes Offshore Grand Prix. That hope came to an…
In the latest installment of its video-based series focused on converting a General Motor LS automotive engine for marine applications, the crew at Powerboat1.com tackles the first steps in replacing its electronic fuel injection system with a carbureted setup. The video focuses on installing the…
Michael Knoblock, the owner of American Custom Marine in Kimball, Mich., can’t get home soon enough. That’s not because the thriving Nor-Tech Hi-Performance dealer hasn’t been enjoying the past two days in Southwest Florida, where he’s been staying with a Detroit-based client and friend who…
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