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Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from HK Powersports, G Connelly & M Carboni On and off the water, the 2024 HK Powersports Poker Run hit new highs for its 23rd annual go-around breathtaking Lake Winnipesaukee, reeling in both a record-breaking boat count and charity...

Story by DinaRella / Photos from Patriotic Duty, Ocean Cup, Erick Bryner- Fast Loud Photography, Tomas Velazquez & Dustin Fedak Part Two: Records are made to be broken. And thanks to the Ocean Cup and its commitment and passion putting the “offshore and endurance” back in powerboat racing…...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Steve Seaton & Allen Bellinghausen Part One Remember the yellow and orange 2004 GTX Outerlimits Full House planted in the minds of many painted with barely dressed girls on a winning hand of playing cards? The 47-footer was a poker...

Story by DinaRella / Photos by Tomas Velazquez, Erick Bryner/Fast Loud Photography & Dustin Fedak SCORE Intl/Dirt Chronicles Desert dust barely settled from racing the Baja 500 before respected off-roader Roger Norman and his fellow driver, veteran offshore racer Nigel Hook, were back at it...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Professional photos courtesy of Canados/SLT Collection Master carpenters manufacturing military interceptor vessels put Canados on the map in 1946 with their unique construction quality. Discovering the Italians’ immense talent and technical skills, the...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Professional images from Deep Impact and Gilberts Did you know the Deep Impact 2024 model 399 Sport unveiled at the South Florida spring shows was hailed as its new “statement piece?” I didn’t, but I should have, judging from its premium edition paint job and...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional images from Buddy Davis (Raritan Marina Yacht Brokerage) Part 2 Italian style and American power, what’s not to like? Sculpting the 47-foot Buddy Davis into an evocative fishing and-family-friendly space with its European design sensibilities...

Story by DinaRella / Photos from autoarch, carstyling, evo.co, handh, ilpost, Barrett-Jackson, Ferrari and Pininfarina Did you know Battista Farina, the Italian patriarch of the iconic design firm Pininfarina, was nicknamed “Pinin” meaning little, because he was the tenth of eleven children? In...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional images from Sunsation Powerboats For Sunsation Powerboats, success can be spelled many ways. Three years after celebrating the unforgettable yellow and black 100th unit of its 32CCX (profiled at the 2021 Miami Boat Show Poker Run), it’s time...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional images courtesy of GSX Powerboats In 2023, Glasstream Boats made a bold move by branching out from its long-time focus on family and fishing watercrafts into the performance center console market. Today, the company operating out of Dothan...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of Bill Forenski/WMF Watercraft & Marine For the second year in a row, Mercury held its three days of in-water, sea trials down at Grove Harbour Marina during the MIBS. In the center console ring, press and potential purchasers had...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Nor-Tech Etched in European refinement, reminiscent of a Riva to some and a Magnum to others – Nor-Tech Hi-Performance Boats surprised us with a reprise of its sexy 420 Monte Carlo first undraped inside the Miami Beach Convention Center...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from American Marine Performance and Smart Performance Marine Part Two The second AMP 37 XPR to show itself made a phenomenal first impression at the 2024 Miami International Boat Show. Sporting twin Mercury Racing 500R outboard motors...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of AMP Designed to distract – the AMP 333 center console and AMP 37 XPR pleasure cat celebrated an incessant outpouring of attention during the Miami Boat Show creating as much visitor traffic at the American Marine Performance booth on...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Aerial images courtesy of MTI and Gilberts If you were looking for a high-performance inboard-powered catamaran at the 2024 Miami Boat Show – the MTI booth was the ONLY PLACE to be. The second generation 48-footer (originally introduced in 2009) was the sole...

Story by DinaRella / Photos from Seakeeper What is it? Recently introduced following five years of R&D, Seakeeper Ride minimizes the motion of the ocean while underway with net results of up to 70% reduction in pitch and roll. The product is suitable for stepped and non-stepped V-bottoms up to...

Story by DinaRella / Photos courtesy of E-1 Series and OSO forum The Venue Part Two Having secured the all-important blessing of the UIM governing party of powerboat racing, the hope of E-1 Series co-founders Alejandro Agag, Formula E and off-road Extreme E sustainable motorsports pioneer; and...

Story by DinaRella / Photos courtesy of E-1 Series The Vessel Part One What looks like a cross between a Galactic Empire X-wing starfighter and some James Bond-ish soaring fish fabrication that floats, flies and foils, but doesn’t flip? The answer: The 23-foot long nosed, closed canopy...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Scot Conrad and Troy Hannon Part Two Launched in 2010 and lightening the wallet by $130,000, the smallest of the Goldfish Tender series fits five and flies to 60 knots or near 70 mph under the power of a single Mercury Marine 225. Heralded...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional photos from Scot Conrad and Goldfish Boats Part One Needing to re-shoot hull No. 1 of the freshly debuted Canados 493 “Florida Edition” following an uninspiring first batch under a blanket of clouds… I went down to SLT Collection to revisit the “big...

Story and select photos from DinaRella / Professional images courtesy of Fountain Powerboats Following a storied 44-Year history, Fountain Powerboats has found a new niche, premiering its first-ever dual console 39DX at booth 2017 of the Broward Fort Lauderdale Convention Center. Though hardly...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Professional images courtesy of Axopar In the midst of finishing up final preparations on the Axopar 45 ST (Sun Top), just weeks after the world premiere of the new flagship alongside its sibling XT (Cross Top) in Cannes, and moments before the USA debut –...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Professional images from Adrenaline & Mad Marketing (Boats Daily) Adrenaline Powerboats Reaper No. 4 did a lot of luring in amid the superyachts and Seabobs flanking FLIBS… the “REDical” 47-footer was exactly like nothing else. The scenario felt somewhat...

Story by DinaRella / Photos from Richard Davis, Ryan Beckley & Freeze Frame Part Two: The Wrap and The Race Justice League is a jaw-dropper. The Phantom graphics instantly pop from the intermingling of styles on the deck and sides. Ryan Beckley, Super Stock racer and sticker master of Kinetic...

Story by DinaRella / Photos from Phantom, Richard Davis & Ryan Beckley Part One: The Build Hollywood has a Bad Boy Will Smith, but the boating industry has the talented namesake with a rep for tooling and turning out some of the most victorious professional racing and vicious pleasure edition...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Additional images from Jaguar Powerboats and BTH Marine Incorporating a proven “Jack Clarke-designed padded system” in the running surface for ultimate high speed handling and stability; sporting a specially crafted 72-inch tunnel; and predicting near to the...

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...