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Hosted this time around at the Pirate Cove Resort and Marina in Stuart, Fla, the annual Old Friends Forever celebration last week was a gathering of legendary offshore powerboat racers from the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. Former race promoter Jim Hauser, Steve Sirois ( the…
Forever is a long time, but the members of Offshore Friends Forever—popularly known as OFF—have always been long-haulers, in it to win it. A group of former offshore powerboat racing legends, they came to Stuart, Fla., from near and mostly far, as they have for…
A vintage 1964, 31-foot Bertram raceboat, Thunderstreak has lived life in chapters. Heroes, villains, drama, despair and victorious resurrection have all contributed to her past and created her glorious present. Thunderstreak is perhaps the most decorated raceboat following this year’s Cowes Powerboat Festival on and…
With the Race World Offshore Key West World Championship happening this week, it was something of historic, karmic fate that the Old Friends Forever gang, a loosely organized group of offshore powerboat marine industry luminaries, gathered last weekend at Wilson Custom Marine in Palm City,…
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