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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...