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Until yesterday, it had been four years since Fort Myers Offshore had visited Marco Island, Fla., which as it happens is the second home of Bob Barnhart, who founded the club in 2005. The 40-boat group, a fleet-size the soft-spoken Canadian admits he couldn’t have…
Are post-Labor Day, triple go-fast boating event-weekends getting out of control? My answer is no. If the weather is fair enough to support an organized day or two on the water, why the hell not? Winter will surely come. So as long as conditions are…
The owners of RP Elite Motors and Marine, the exclusive Skater Powerboats catamaran dealershi \located in Springtown, Texas, Ross and Mackenzie Ramsey went into the second-year Skaterfest last weekend on a high. Shortly before the two-day brand-celebration they produced on Lake Texoma, the couple learned…
Poetry that it is in motion, a Performance Powerboats P420 catamaran also makes a damn fine stage when it’s sitting still on a trailer. And that’s exactly what Performance Boat Center’s Brett Marine, Myrick Coil and Michael Hall used it for yesterday when they welcomed 58…
From the formats they present to the money they raise for their chosen charities, poker runs are not competitions. They might—key word—compete for participants if they’re in the same region on the same summer weekend, but that’s about it. The success of one event does…
Forget what you may have heard or think you know, there is but one major barrier to high-performance boating fun off Southern California. And it’s not the lack of an Intracoastal Waterway for protected running when the deep-blue waters Pacific Ocean get rough. Nor is…
Just six days from now, Performance Boat Center will host its annual Fall Fun Run, which is the Osage Beach, Mo.-based dealership’s final in-house-produced event of the season. And if a couple of tentative deals made during the outfit’s Fall Boat Show last weekend close,…
With apologies to the 100-plus powerboat owners and their guests at the Oneida Chicken Wing Run in Upstate New York—you fell below radar but won’t again—there were three strong go-fast boating events I reported on last weekend. Not bad for what was the final “official”…
From the moment the text describing last weekend’s Emerald Coast Boat Week appeared on the Florida Powerboat Club website, you knew something very different was in store for the 80 club members and their guests who had signed up for 33rd annual event based in…
As more than 50 go-fast powerboat owners and their guests in town this weekend for the Lake Powell Challenge are learning—or rediscovering—the vistas from the Colorado River-fed lake never stop getting better. Just when you think the view from the pristine water surrounded by solid…
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