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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...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional photos courtesy of Billy Frenz and NPBA 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...

Story and photos by DinaRella The last time I hit the LOTO Shootout was in the early 2000s doing PR for AMF Offshore Racing, prior to the Day-Glo yellow turbine team securing its hefty “Day-Glo green” Geico-bankrolled sponsorship. Back then, when Shooters was home base for the horsepower...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional images from A.F. Thunderbirds, Cigarette, Lucas Oil, Mike’s Aerial Photography and F1 An over-the-top series of horsepower-packing, people-pleasing, fast-moving objects roared into Miami and beyond, fueling the streets, seas and skies for 2022...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional images from Adrenaline Powerboats Adrenaline Powerboats have a knack for standing out, whether running loud and proud at WOT churning up the waters, or eliciting oohs and ahhs in off-mode stirring up the crowds on the quays. This past March, Adrenaline...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Manatee Marine & Bryce Batzer South Florida “boat show time” became South Florida boat “show-off” time, a mere 72 hours after Miami’s biggest marine extravaganza to date drew to a close. For round two, the Magic City emptied out and...