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Speed On The Water Week In News—October 16-23

Friday, October 23 PBN Exclusive—Key West Worlds Rocking An Eight-Party RosterBuckle up. Outerlimits Stars In CMC Boat Group ShowcaseA fresh start for a venerable brand. Thursday, October 22 PBN ...
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Dirty Duck’s 215 MPH Leads Day One 2025 Lake Of The Ozarks Shootout Highlights

What started with the historic 125-mph Lieutenant Governor Inaugural Run—featuring MTI founder Randy Scism on the throttles of a new MTI 390X catamaran and Missouri Lieutenant Governor David Wasinger ...
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Winning Against the Grain—The Bill Pyburn Profile

Most competitors in offshore powerboat racing’s Super Cat class would have been thrilled with finishing second in their first attempt at the sport’s grueling three-day world championships that take ...
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242 MPH! Darana-Hybrid Mystic Shatters Lake Of The Ozarks Shootout Course Record

The 2025 Lake of the Ozarks Shootout is going to be remembered for many things—the new location and course, the end of American Ethanol’s 10-year streak of overall Top Gun titles and maybe even the ...
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Lake Champlain Poker Run To Celebrate Seventh Year Of Well-Managed Growth

You not alone if you didn’t know that registration for the annual Lake Champlain Poker Run opened a month-and-a-half ago. Though sign-ups started May 16th—the earliest registration date in the ...
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Hledins Building New 26-Foot Single-Engine Skater Pleasure Cat

The first new model from Skater Powerboats in several years, a 26-foot, single-outboard pleasure catamaran is in the plug-building stage. And Michael Hledin, the 35-year-old son of the Douglas, Mich., ...
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The World’s Friendliest Battleship Runs On Seneca Lake

Cornfields give way to vineyards as you exit Geneva, N.Y., heading toward the curiously named yet charming town of Himrod for the Battleship Run produced by the Rochester Offshore Powerboat ...
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Sarasota Powerboat Grand Prix Day One: Super Stock And Bracket Class Winners

The oldest saying in offshore powerboat racing is “to finish first, first you have to finish,” and that couldn’t have proven truer as the favorites in Super Stock and Bracket 500 succumbed well before ...
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Roar Offshore Fort Myers Beach On Hold Till 2026

Though president of Fort Myers Offshore, Tim Hill is by far the busiest high-performance boating event organizer in Southwest Florida, as he and his wife, Cyndee, have championed the return of the ...
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Bahamas Or Bust, Part II—Peeling Back The Layers

Like the islands themselves, the Florida Powerboat Club’s Bahamas Poker Run unfolds in sharply contrasting layers. Still largely undeveloped, the tiny island of Bimini—the first stop in the 35th ...
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Speed On The Water Week In News—May 22-29

Participants in next weekend’s Binks Fun Run for Addiction Awareness will get a firsthand look at a Platinum Powerboats 428 in action. Florida Powerboat Club members coming to historic St. Augustine ...
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Outerlimits Completes Eight-Seat Open-Cockpit SC 46 Catamaran

Just a few days ago, Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats gave go-fast boating fans a quick look at its first SC 37 catamaran with a canopied cockpit. The 37-footer, which is powered by a pair of 500-hp ...