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Mercury Looks to Extend Its Position at the Top of the Outboard Market■Roar Offshore Sold to Shaun Torrente and Cole Leibel■Mystic Powerboats Enters Defence Sector With MARTAC USV Partnership■West Marine: The 59 Stores That Are Closing■IHRA Alton Powerboat Nationals 2026: Everything You Need to Know■GoGPS Cowes International Powerboat Festival 2026: Everything You Need to Know■Mercury Looks to Extend Its Position at the Top of the Outboard Market■Roar Offshore Sold to Shaun Torrente and Cole Leibel■Mystic Powerboats Enters Defence Sector With MARTAC USV Partnership■West Marine: The 59 Stores That Are Closing■IHRA Alton Powerboat Nationals 2026: Everything You Need to Know■GoGPS Cowes International Powerboat Festival 2026: Everything You Need to Know■

Mercury 808hp V12 concept outboard on display at the Miami International Boat Show, February 2026

Boating Industry

Mercury Looks to Extend Its Position at the Top of the Outboard Market

Shaun Torrente S-54 Hi-Tech Deck Super Stock boat at IHRA Offshore

Roar Offshore Sold to Shaun Torrente and Cole Leibel

MARTAC T38 autonomous unmanned surface vehicle underway at sea

Boating Industry

Mystic Powerboats Enters Defence Sector With MARTAC USV Partnership

West Marine store exterior, United States

Boating Industry

West Marine: The 59 Stores That Are Closing

IHRA Alton Powerboat Nationals 2026: Everything You Need to Know

GoGPS Cowes International Powerboat Festival 2026: Everything You Need to Know

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Hydro GP World Championship Round 3 — Boretto Po, Italy, 12-14 June 2026

Hydro GP Boretto Po 2026: Everything You Need to Know

Poole Bay 100 2026 - UKOPRA Round 2, 12-13 June, Poole Quay Boat Haven

Poole Bay 100 2026: Everything You Need to Know

IHRA Shootout Offshore at Lake of the Ozarks 2026: Everything You Need to Know

Race World Offshore

Atlantic City Sports Offshore Grand Prix 2026: Everything You Need to Know

UIM F2 World Championship 2026 Gran Premio d'Italia Brindisi pit area

UIM F2 World Championship Gran Premio d’Italia 2026: Everything You Need to Know

Norgesmesterskap Offshore Holmestrand 2026 - Drammen Sportsbåt Team

Norgesmesterskap Offshore Holmestrand 2026: Alt du trenger å vite

IHRA Alton Powerboat Nationals 2026: Everything You Need to Know

32nd Annual St. Clair River Classic 2026 - July 24-26 - OPA Racing sanctioned

St. Clair River Classic 2026: Everything You Need to Know

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Mercury 808hp V12 concept outboard on display at the Miami International Boat Show, February 2026

Boating Industry

Mercury Looks to Extend Its Position at the Top of the Outboard Market

MARTAC T38 autonomous unmanned surface vehicle underway at sea

Mystic Powerboats Enters Defence Sector With MARTAC USV Partnership

West Marine store exterior, United States

Boating Industry

West Marine: The 59 Stores That Are Closing

The superyacht Amadea photographed in Fiji after seizure by US authorities in 2022

Boating Industry

The Amadea Affair: How a $300 Million Superyacht Became the Test Case for Sanctions Enforcement

Princess Yachts Odyssey superyacht range

Boating Industry

Princess Yachts Completes Turnaround With Return to Profitability Ahead of Plan

Glastron GT-150 airborne during the Live and Let Die boat jump stunt, Louisiana 1972

Back in the Day

The Boat That Outran James Bond: Glastron’s Hollywood Story

Thundercat inflatable racing boat airborne at Fistral Beach Cornwall

Tohatsu Marks 70 Years of Outboard Production

SpiritBARTech F35 foiling on the Solent during the inaugural Harmsworth Trophy electric challenge

SpiritBARTech F35 Sets Benchmark in Harmsworth Trophy Electric Challenge

HistoryBack in the Day

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Phil Rolla with a Rolla surface-piercing propeller at his Balerna design studio, 1989

Back in the Day

Phil Rolla: The Man Who Took the Black Art Out of Propeller Design

Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key, closed since 1992, with colourful graffiti art covering the grandstand seating

Miami Marine Stadium: The World’s First Powerboat Racing Stadium

Back in the Day

The Boat That Started Sunseeker

Unowot racing in 1973, one of Britain's most celebrated Class 1 offshore powerboat hulls

Back in the Day

When Racing Boats Went South: The British Offshore Hulls That Ended Up in Gibraltar

Miss Britain IV, the Ford Sabre-powered three-point hydroplane in which Chris Kaye set a world diesel water speed record of 124.24 mph on Coniston Water in November 1982

Powerboat People

Chris Kaye: Former Diesel Water Speed Record Holder Has Died

Force Outboards service manuals and Seloc repair guide from the 1984-1999 era

Back in the Day

Force Outboards: The Budget Motor That Divided a Generation

The Mariner-powered Pobjoy Mint Two — Peter Bloomfield's offshore Class 3D Stapley catamaran in 1980

Back in the Day

Whatever Happened to Mariner? The Merc-a-ha Story

In 1991, Norris and the Popeyes team captured the World Offshore Powerboat Championship

Back in the Day

Al Copeland: The Fried Chicken King Who Ruled Offshore Racing

February 27, 2026

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Lewis Hamilton with Gustavo Morales's 1986 Wellcraft Scarab 38KV Miami Vice Edition on Biscayne Bay

Back in the Day

Lewis Hamilton Takes the Helm of Gus Morales’s 1986 Wellcraft Scarab 38KV

Wim Wagenaar drives a Shakespeare speedboat through crates on a barge during filming of Puppet on a Chain, Keizersgracht canal, Amsterdam, May 1970

Back in the Day

Back in the Day: The Tewkesbury Boatbuilder Whose Yellow Speedboat Inspired James Bond

Glastron GT-150 airborne during the Live and Let Die boat jump stunt, Louisiana 1972

Back in the Day

The Boat That Outran James Bond: Glastron’s Hollywood Story

Don Johnson's Team USA catamaran number 50 racing at speed, Samsonite and Revlon sponsorship, 1989

Back in the Day

Don Johnson’s Team USA: The Boat He Built After Winning the World Championship Is For Sale

RacingIHRA Racing

IHRA Alton Powerboat Nationals 2026: Everything You Need to Know

IHRA F1 powerboat fleet at the start of the Battle on the Colorado 2026, Marble Falls Texas, Chris Rinker #52 Sylvan Pontoon Boats leads the field

Anderson Wins Battle on the Colorado as Love’s Motor Fails in the Lead

IHRA Shootout Offshore at Lake of the Ozarks 2026: Everything You Need to Know

IHRA and OPA logos split by lightning bolt as partnership ends

IHRA Drops St. Clair, OPA Partnership Ends and the 2026 Offshore Calendar Keeps Changing