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Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional images via Mad Marketing from Nautical Network & Boats Daily Following the boating world’s outboard-obsessed trajectory, FLIBS was loaded with enough of them clamped on catamarans and console boats to make your head spin and bank account...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Jackie and Mark Wilson & boatracingfacts.com This November, some of the sweetest speedboats in Key West were the smallest… the shiniest… and not sitting in slips on Stock Island or the Galleon, but instead, on the display table of...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Devin Wozencraft, MPH Motorsports, J Wyszatycki , T Jones & J Heimcamp Ironically, more than one insurance-sponsored, feisty green cat was spotted prowling around Key West at the Race World Offshore Championships and 31st annual Florida...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Race footage from social media Insurance premiums are high enough nowadays, but during the 42nd annual Key West World Championships, one brand soared to even greater heights! We’re talking about the X-Insurance sponsored Class 1 MTI raceboat, not the...

Story and photos by DinaRella On a dock full of hardware heavy on the black, white, red and blue hues, the audacious orange and glittering gray twin hull in slip number three in the Red Zone of the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show told another story. Rightfully titled First Born – the bright striped...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Professional images from Mercury Racing & Boats Daily Before the hype had even died down from Mercury Racing’s Miami Boat Show party and premiere of the V10 400R, this June the celebratory good times kept on rolling in Charleston at its 50th anniversary gala. But...

Story and select photos by DinaRella/ Additional images courtesy of Donzi (Clint Garant), Donzi registry forum, boats-from-usa & boats.iboats Part Three: In it to win it, Donzi fame has been measured in all sizes since the sixties. Designed by Walt Walters and Jim Wynne, the "signature starter...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from NASA, Wikimedia and Archilovers Part Two Jockeying through an hour of Los-Angeles-like traffic, 30 miles south from the chic Mina Seyahi district, home to the man-made Dubai marina and host of the annual boat show, takes you to the...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional images from Dubai Boat Show, DIMC & Gulf Craft Part One Dubai aka “the City of Superlatives,” is the epicenter of HIGH. High-rise structures hypnotize. High-society citizens charge down mega-lane highways in high-performance supercars – even...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Pier17 Rooftop & the Seaport Coalition Cited as “Where New York Began,” the South Street Seaport dates back to the early 1600s Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, before England gained control ushering in the name change to New York, when...

Story by DinaRella / Images courtesy of Donzi (Clint Garant) & STAX Performance Marine Part Two: In the swarming sea of performance-orientated center consoles, Donzi Marine delivered the unimaginable, crafting a discernibly different vessel from the competition. Manifesting impressive and...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional images courtesy of, Donzi, Online Registry & Tales of Thunderboat Row Part One: Donzi — the brand bearing the endearing nickname that company founder and King of Offshore Don Aronow's secretary bestowed upon him back in the early 60s — started...

Story and Select photos by DinaRella / Additional images courtesy of the USCG A 295-foot Eagle landed in Lower Manhattan the last weekend in July stealing the summertime thunder on Pier 17 at South Street Seaport. Of course, we're talking about the USCG Eagle Cutter Barque... which inherits the...

Story by DinaRella / Photos courtesy of Tomas Velazquez, Ryan Beckley and Ocean Cup Part Two: "Thousands of horses invaded the Bahamas" for the Ocean Cup's 128-mile, open-water trot to the West End from Palm Beach and back, commented long-established, Apache boat builder Mark McManus online...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Professional photos courtesy of Tomas Velazquez Part One: Celebrating its tenth anniversary, since its 2013 inception by California-resident and veteran powerboat racer Nigel Hook, the Ocean Cup is a series of endurance races on the East and West Coast. Its goal...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional images by Forza X1 and LivingFLA “Providing customers with boating memories of a lifetime at an affordable price, beginning with designing exciting and relevant nautical innovations, and ending with unsurpassed quality in manufacturing,” has...

Words by DinaRella "A guy that could brighten any room, pick you up when you were down, and always had a smile on his face,” were the words written on social media by Reindl Powerboats owner Chris Reindl, in memory of a close friend, he lost a few months ago. It’s unimaginable to think the same...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional images courtesy of Formula Formula’s legacy is like no other! The flagship has been building born to run powerboats – starting with the unequivocal hero hull 223 – since the King of Offshore Racing Don Aronow purchased the parent company...

Story and photos by DinaRella Anchored by an inboard-powered 515 and a trio of center consoles in all four corners, with a central bar flowing with Cierto Tequila cocktails – Cigarette Racing Team smoked the Regatta Harbour Hangar in Coconut Grove unleashing its bold and beautiful 52 Thunder...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Big Game and Vintage Bahamas Part Two Bimini – the slender strip of Bahamas real estate famed for fun, sun and phenomenal fishing a mere 50 miles from Miami, but a million away in character – takes its name from the Lucayan Indian word for...

Story and photos by DinaRella Part One Easter Sunday started out smooth and serene. First, the trek down the pike to Port Everglades was traffic-free as the sun did its early a.m. east side rise illuminating the Fort Lauderdale skies like Jesus rising into heaven. Second, the general unruly...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of Kris De Ramos, Mercury Marine Middle East & Dubai Boat Show Based on its persistence, perseverance, and perpetual prediction of future trends and technological advancements; Mercury Marine’s commitment to reshaping the...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of Boston Whaler Igniting aquatic outrage for half of century, it was 1971 when the original Boston Whaler Outrage first hit the H20. I don’t recall the initial model, or 21’ “banana hull,” because I wasn’t born yet. But what I...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional photos courtesy of Scout It’s been four years since the revered South Carolina boat builder Scout outed its aptly-titled “MEGA” 530 LXF center console at the 2019 Miami International Boat Show. Dressed in five Yamaha 425 hp outboards for the...

Story and photos by DinaRella/ Professional images courtesy of Mark Spencer for Fountain You expect a bit of badassery with any new toy trumpeting the word EXTREME in its title, but Fountain Powerboats makeover magicians went above and beyond with their revamping enchantment on the 2023 “next...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Outerlimits, Boyne Thunder Poker Run & OSO classifieds We started talking about the Outerlimits SC 37 during its construction phase in the summer of 2020 back when RDP toured the Bristol, Rhode Island, headquarters with national...

Story and select photos from DinaRella / Professional photos from Mercury Racing Adding to the fury, fame and flurry of fastboat assets introduced at the 2023 Miami Boat Show, Mercury Racing made heads spins with its pair of party treats before the five-day affair even opened its gates. The...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional images from Mercury Racing (T. Leigh) Love was flowing in the air at the Mercury Racing 50th Anniversary celebration of speed on the glowing red 7th floor of the 1111 Lincoln Road Event Space aka convertible parking garage gone glam Miami...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional imagery from Lürssen/Guillaume Plisson The archetypical AHPO gigayacht – a title given to the next generation of yachts larger than the mere mega yachts – was the number one headliner at the 2023 Miami Boat Show. Longer than a football field...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Livorsi Marine Livorsi Marine caused a lot of QR excitement at its booth during the 2023 Miami Boat Show but you didn’t need a smart phone to scan a code. Nope! The only prerequisite was that… you needed to own a boat in order to...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of Miami Dade County & Deck at Island Gardens/YHG Marina Authorized in 1902 and finished in 1905, prior to the opening of Miami’s man-made Government Cut off South Beach, vessels destined for the mouth of the Miami River were...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from RWO, Ryan Walker & Class 1 Apart from two days of Race World Offshore (RWO) pro-racing, it’s what went down on the pavement from the parties on the piers to the street parades of pony power that best define the 2022 Key West...

Story by DinaRella / Photos courtesy of Chris-Craft Stinger 390X Miami Vice Filming Boats, Iconic Premier & NBC-Universal Fusing imagery of a flashy tropical canvas with modern cinematography and synthpop sounds, Miami Vice was an iconic, influential and interminable symbol of the 1980s that...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of Propspeed Propspeed Passing down the purple-carpeted pathway to Propspeed at booth PAN 336 at the 2022 Cannes Boat Show an hour before the 3 p.m. scheduled demonstration on how the product tackles the negative impact of...

Story and photos by DinaRella In the middle of endless rows of rubber inflatables at the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival, my first gift from the go-fast gods flashed before me. The carbon-fiber dream machine was called the Albatro EVO 45. Except, it gets better! An hour later, standing on an...

Story and Photos by DinaRella / Professional photos courtesy of CYF and Riva Being greeted by a special edition Riva open powerboat and treated to the rolling out of a “movie star” red carpet this autumn upon entering the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival (CYF) along the famed La Croisette...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of Scott Barnhart Recently revived, it was phenomenal to see the cat’s been let out of the bag and to have Phenomenon back in the southernmost city of Key West where it was first let loose at the 29th annual SBI Key West World...

Story and photos by DinaRella Two phat cats clawed their way to Key West for this year’s 2022 fastboat festivities. The first was Marine Technology Incorporated’s new and now largest-in-fleet outboard-powered 440X pleasure machine. The second was the return of Phenomenon – Al Copeland’s insane...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional photos provided by Mystic Powerboats Balancing an inner core of true performance and an exterior which exudes pure class and comfort galore – the M5200 is the Essence of Perfection. The sheer size of the mega center console conceived with a...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of One°15 Brooklyn Marina ERECTED, a second time over with extensive robust and sustainable design features to fight New York's gnarly gushing East River swells; and RESPECTED for its array of low-cost programs and activities allowing...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of crewny.com Built in 1924, the century-old wooden schooner Pilot floating alongside Pier 6 from April to October, delivers daytime libation lovers and delicate oyster-slurping aficionados in New York's hippest zip code and hottest...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos and drone shots courtesy of Borden Light Marina Bedecked with tropical palm trees and swinging rope seats rocking you right to the bar top; blissful sunset vistas from the second level surrounded by thunderous speedboats; the feel of floating on...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos provided by Justin Wagner, Hamilton Marine Finance, Ben Robertson, Brian Correll Airshows & Lake Shots Photography Missing my connecting flight into St. Louis after a fab four-hour wait for Delta to Uber a backup flight attendant from...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from XVI Power, JBS Racing, Ryan Walker and Tomas Velazquez Detroit-based Sixteen Power (XVI) opted for that laid-back island with a big reputation for throttles-forward action, using the 2021 Race World Offshore-produced Key West Worlds to...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Professional photos by Wajer, SACS and Hierbas Celebrating the summer season in Ibiza has always been sort of special. Smiles spiral up and the cool cats come out to play and powerboat in paradise. RDP was lucky enough to be on the White Isle scoping out...

Story and photos by DinaRella Ibiza is the Spanish island sanctuary known for music and Mediterranean mayhem, but these days the Balearic jewel has expanded its base playing host to the finest performance boats and luxury liners the world has to offer. LCC crossed the pond to take a peek at...

Story by DinaRella / Photos provided by J.J. Turk from several sources Part Two: JT’s Social Bar screams speedboat central, and for one wicked weekend every May, the La Quinta parking lot below looks much the same, morphing into an annual mini dry-pits when the offshore racers and their...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos provided from J.J. Turk JT’s Social Bar 1275 North Atlantic Avenue Cocoa Beach, FL 32931 Part One: Officially opening three years back on May 16th during the weekend festivities of the 2019 Thunder on Cocoa Beach Powerboat Race – JT’s Social...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from SŌLACE Boats Prior to the 62nd edition of the famed Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS), Volvo Penta of the Americas and SŌLACE Boats teased the boating world via social media with the hashtag...

Story by DinaRella / Photos by DinaRella, Tom Caruso and Fountain Powerboats When it comes to “meeting the wants and exceeding the needs” of its East Coast boating customers – Total Marine is a paramount player in the maritime world. Established five decades ago by John Caruso in 1971, the...