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 Florida Keys waterways filled for a pair...Continue reading
Welcome Back Home! Gone for good was the commute from hell to Virginia Key, thanks to the return of the 2022 Miami International Boat Show (MIBS) to its former stomping grounds at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Completely revamped, it does entail...Continue reading
PART ONE On the sunny Sunday of Veterans Day weekend, the steel and chrome crowd geared up to go ga-ga over the 300-plus curated rare and dear drool-worthy gems at the fourth edition of the Exotics on Las Olas (ELO4) in the...Continue reading
Bah-boom… the South Florida boat show scene is ba ba ba back. And the proof was in the nautical fineness that filled every inch of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS), manifesting itself in examples such as – the Fountain 38...
Art Ain’t the Only Part Tuesday’s opening whistle blew signaling Art Basel Miami, the stateside spin-off of the premier international Swiss art show, was up and running reclaiming its reign on South Florida terrain following its 2020 Wu-flu abolition. For this go-around...Continue reading
No matter your motive: poker running, pro-racing, or purely partaking in “pour behavior decisions” for your liver – powerboat purebloods plowed into their long-established mid-November South Florida sanctuary maxing out Mile Marker One with high-performance wickedness all around. Drawing digits like never...Continue reading
Missing my connecting flight into St. Louis after a fab four-hour wait for Delta to Uber a backup flight attendant from Boston to Hartford left me Uber-pissed I missed opening day of the 33rd Lake of the Ozarks Shootout, but the drama...Continue reading
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 speedboat savants re-united in the same room. Frenz,...Continue reading
The best part of my four days of frolicking around the 2021 Palm Beach International Boat Show (PBIBS) was bumping into my "something OLD and something NEW" decorating the docks among the sprawling super yachts and consortium of classy crafts. Raising more...Continue reading
The New Crew Cigarette Racing Team lit up the summer of 2021 with a pair of smoking hot revelations! First was the late May drop that the quintessential manufacturer of offshore powerboats had been sold from longtime owner Skip Braver, following his...Continue reading