Search results

Story and photos by DinaRella / Aerials from FLIBS Media, IYC, MTI & CRT The best news about the 2024 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show surfaced weeks before it started. The city escaped untouched from back-to-back hurricanes Helene and Milton… meaning the world’s largest in-water show...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Aerial photos from Deep Impact, T. Jones & Gilberts “Performance powerboaters differ from other boaters because of our lifestyle! Sure, we enjoy comfortable and safe boating, but we stand out in the crowd because we love doing it at HIGH SPEEDS,” said Stu Jones...

Story and photos by DinaRella “Holy carbon fiber catamaran!” thought everyone (or at least me) after seeing the riveting Hellkats Powerboats 32 show itself on the performance dock at its 2024 FLIBS premiere. Drenched in copious amounts of exposed carbon fiber from bow to stern, even the highly...

Story and photos by DinaRella Nor-Tech Hi-Performance Powerboats entered 2024 on a classy note at the Miami Boat Show with its sophisticated 420 Monte Carlo. Finishing off the year at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show in more outrageous fashion – it returned to its roots and went out with a...

Story and photos by DinaRella Innovation in technology continues to forge forward in the performance boating world thanks to Marine Design Corporation (MDC) and Hardin Marine. Fresh off a successful showing in Tampa at the marine industry trade-only event IBEX, the next stop was the 2024 Fort...

Story by DinaRella / Photos sourced from NBC Universal MV DVD screenshots, Wikipedia, Flickr, imdb, nplan & americanbutler Part Three Free from a welcome sign or entrance gates, a mile past the Cape Florida Lighthouse, at the edge of Miami where Biscayne Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, piercing...

Story by DinaRella / Photos from Dave Sikorski and Brian Holmes Part Two Since the ‘80s when fiberglass and paint specialist Dave Sikorski first started out, he never had a proper name for his business. He never needed one! He was known as Glass Dave and work came his way by word of mouth. It...

Story by DinaRella / Photos sourced from NBC-Universal, Wellcraft, Wayne Kolb, imdb, 38scarabkv & MB Mayor’s Office media Part One On Monday, September 16, 2024, Miami Vice celebrated its 40-Year Anniversary! Standing in front of the Avalon Hotel at 700 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach Mayor Steve...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of Ben Robertson & Katrina Beaman Part Two Gifted, grounded, and still going strong – the pioneer of the raceboat and progenitor of the cupped prop and padded V-bottom – Paul Allison turned one hundred years old on August 7...

Story and select photos by DinaRella / Additional photos courtesy of Ben Robertson, Allison Boats, Reynolds Racing & American Performance Media Video John Potts Part One What’s in a name? Absolutely everything when it comes to Allison Craft founder and Tennessee mastermind Paul Allison, his...

Story and photos by DinaRella / Aerials from HK Powersports and Evan Walsh Does your boat live up to its name and do what it says? Twin Top Guns "Wound UP and Un Wound" sure did as they took flight winding up some gnarly New Hampshire waters two weeks back. Being together made it all the more...

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...