Saw a few races on the Chesapeake over the years and always wished I had one of their boats. Not sure if it ever raced on the Chesapeake but I got one a couple years back.



Funny thing, the wife and kids took a cruise to the Bahamas a couple weeks back. Now my wife, kids and my boat all have been to Bahamas. I haven't.

How many of Todays Offshore Racing Boats could actually make it to the Bahamas??? Some don't/Cant carry enough fuel, Some would Snap in Half at the thought of crossing the Gulfstream

In the open class we had a joke that we pulled on any new racers.

Hi welcome to the open class, just wanted you to know .......that there is an inside bet the drivers have ......that is $1,000 to the driver that makes it first .......to the first checkpoint.

Of course, we didn't and there was never any money paid, but in the hopes the new guy would try and end up blowing his engines, we used it.

In Detroit one year, we spotted a new boat and looked at the name on the driver list......well, this guy had raced one time the year before, but he still might go for it. Nope, Bobby Saccenti notices his throttleman is none other than Billy Sirois. He would know right away it wasn't true.

So, we never got topull that joke on Al Copeland with the new Popeyes boat.

As a child growing up on the Black River in Port Huron, Michigan boating was a passion and our family boat was a 21' Donzi Hornet. In 1977 my father took my brother and I down to Port Huron Harbor and to Charlie's River Crab to see all the offshore race boats attending the "Charlie's Crab St. Clair River Classic" there must have been 40 or more boats. Although I don't recall being able to see the race my time spent in the dry pits was memorable as well as influential. Little did I know that 23 years later I would be a participant in the "Pro Series 2000 St Clair River Classic". It was my first race in my Factory 2 Formula.

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We did the Bimini run a few years ago, out of Sunny Isles. 30' Skater, 2- 2.5 280's (Diamond Marine) Kyler Talbot drove (with a hand held GPS) and I throttled. made it there and back in 1hr 37min. The water color out there was amazing. We passed a whale on the way back, seriously!
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here are the whales ryan

Ryan's not lying, I saw the whale too! Saw it on the way out to Bimini. Round trip in 43 minutes..

Pretty much the same story / timeline for me. Have gone to most of the races held in NJ since I was a kid in the early 70's.

Still go every year.

Mine was built for it.

Long Island Sound, Newburyport, MA, Huntington Beach, Dana Point, Long Beach, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Key West, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Coco Beach, Daytona Beach. The most memorable was Key West 2003? when Sbi, OSS, and APBA all ran together, that and about 100 boats from the Florida Powerboat Club.