Speed on the Water

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Speed on the WaterKey West Worlds Outlook—The Cat 300 Triumverate Though large fleets predicted by Cat 300 proponents have not materialized since the spec offshore-racing class emerged several years ago, the Cat 300 group has grown.

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Speed on the WaterImage Of The Week—A Electric-Blue DCB Beauty In The Desert Even when he’s blown away by the latest creation from DCB Performance Marine, company vice-president Tony Chiaramonte rarely gushes aloud.

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Speed on the WaterHighlights From The World’s Fastest Boat Parade Yesterday—And Yesteryear As a general rule, parades aren’t super-thrilling. The exception to this, at least in the offshore powerboat-racing world, is the event-opening procession of raceboats down Duval Street in Key West…

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Speed on the WaterA Bloody Good Opportunity Ahead Of The 13th Annual SOTW Key West Bash For more than 10 years, the Pickle’s Pub Sandbar on Greene Street has been the gracious host location for the Speed On The Water Key West benefitting Samuel’s House, a local nonprofit shelter…

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Speed on the WaterSpeed On The Water Week In News—October 23-30 The Super Stock class boasts unmatched parity in the offshore racing world. Photo by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix .

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Speed on the WaterA Soft Landing In South Florida, Deep Impact 499 Style Though a formal survey wasn’t taken, it’s a safe bet that Paul Gooding was among the happiest participants at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show this week.

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Speed on the WaterShot-Ski Into The 13th Annual Speed On The Water Key West Bash A massively talented dude with an equally massive heart, Stephen Miles has raised shot-ski creation to an artform during the past 10-plus years.

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Speed on the WaterKey West Outlook—Tables For Eight In Class 1 And Class 2 There were legitimate doubts to be had when Powerboat P1 began pushing the resurgence of Class 1 in 2017-2018.

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Speed on the WaterAmerican Marine Performance Adding 39-Foot Center Console Currently turning heads at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show its new 41 Cat and 34 XS center console, American Marine Performance has another new offering on tap.

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Speed on the WaterKey West Outlook—Bracketology Of the 94 teams currently registered for the Race World Offshore Key West World Championships next week, 38 are of them are of the Bracket-class kind.

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A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay