Missing my connecting flight into St. Louis after a fab four-hour wait for Delta to Uber a backup flight attendant from Boston to Hartford left me Uber-pissed I missed opening day of the 33rd Lake of the Ozarks Shootout, but the drama...Continue reading
Thanks to Billy Frenz and the National Powerboat Association (NPBA), Guy LaMotta’s Port Washington, Long Island, enclave felt a little like an APBA racer meeting from the late 70s or 80s with so many speedboat savants re-united in the same room. Frenz,...Continue reading
The best part of my four days of frolicking around the 2021 Palm Beach International Boat Show (PBIBS) was bumping into my "something OLD and something NEW" decorating the docks among the sprawling super yachts and consortium of classy crafts. Raising more...Continue reading
The New Crew Cigarette Racing Team lit up the summer of 2021 with a pair of smoking hot revelations! First was the late May drop that the quintessential manufacturer of offshore powerboats had been sold from longtime owner Skip Braver, following his...Continue reading
How can I best describe the vibe this April of 2021 in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, after dystopian Chy-na's Wu-Flu lab-virus robbed powerboaters of our fun runs and festivities in 2020? Epic, unrestrained, off-the-hook hardware, ludicrous pony power and coats of paint,...
Part One: In and Out Genuflecting in reverence and respect seems only fitting after inspecting the stability and rigor of the ride produced from the Seakeepers on the INSIDE and the beast-mode superiority and stature of the new Mercury Marine V12 600-hp...Continue reading
Let's be honest, technically a poker run is a boat show, the only exception is everyone's there not for the show but to show off their go-fast goods and glitterati of guests along for the ride. This winter of 2021, bon vivants...Continue reading
Miami is never without a story to tell, and in today's male-gaze driven society, this February the tropical megalopolis delivered with two heavy hitters -- hosting Super Bowl LIV and the Progressive Miami International Boat Show (MIBS). From boats to booty-shakers, the...Continue reading
Seeing 20/20 brings those annoyingly blurry bits into focus – like making out the minute hand on your OMEGA Speedmaster or honing in on that distant Skater transom that reads Roostertails & Cocktails (real name); "SEAing 20/20" on the other hand is...
By and large, just the notion of Nor-Tech and the Bahia Mar in the same sentence means one thing: It's October and drooling is underway on the HI high-performance dock at Fort Lauderdale's International Boat Show. But, not this time, nor that...Continue reading