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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...