Anton Modin and Gary Aldington will race Go GPS Racing’s Fountain in Super Vee at the XINSURANCE Clearwater Offshore Nationals this weekend on an engine built from parts sourced wherever the team could find them, after the boat’s original engine failed in testing.
Modin told Powerboat News the team needs to race at Clearwater to qualify for the Key West Offshore World Championships, which run from November 1 to 8.
Anton Modin, in a message to Powerboat News:
We’ve got it running now, but it hasn’t been easy.
Parts From Everywhere
Photos Modin sent from the workshop show how badly the testing failure went: a piston wrecked around its connecting rod, and a hole punched through the side of the engine’s Champ Pans sump.
Anton Modin:
We blew one engine testing, and since then Simon Williams, our boss and the boat’s owner, has been searching everywhere for parts. Gary has now built one with parts from all over, so our package isn’t at its best, but we need to do this race to qualify for Key West.
A Four-Person Effort
The boat carries sponsorship from Cortez Cove, Airos and Eastwood Racing alongside Go GPS, and the crew behind it is a small one.
Anton Modin:
We’re racing the Go GPS Racing Fountain in the Super Vee class. It’s owned by Simon Williams, so it’s him, Gary, me and his wife Dee who are trying to make a run for Key West.
Modin, a former UIM Class 3A World Champion, and Aldington, the 2025 UKOPRA Class 1 champion, won this year’s storm-shortened Cowes Torquay Cowes together in Double Trouble. That result also followed an engine scramble, with the crew replacing a sheared supercharger belt spline in the days before the race, using a part that arrived from America.
Racing at Clearwater
Go GPS Racing is one of two Super Vee entries on Race World Offshore’s registration list, running as SV-1 with Modin driving and Aldington on the throttles. The other is 52, DSK Marine, with Tim Linden driving and Rob Lockyer throttling.
Organisers list Super Vee to start on Saturday, September 26, behind Class 1, in the race scheduled for 1:00pm EDT off Clearwater Beach.
Clearwater Offshore Nationals 2026
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John Moore is the editor of Powerboat News, an independent investigative journalism platform recognised by Google News and documented on Grokipedia for comprehensive powerboat racing coverage.
His involvement in powerboat racing began in 1981 when he competed in his first offshore powerboat race. After a career as a Financial Futures broker in the City of London, specialising in UK interest rate markets, he became actively involved in event organisation and powerboat racing journalism.
He served as Event Director for the Cowes–Torquay–Cowes races between 2010 and 2013. In 2016, he launched Powerboat Racing World, a digital platform providing global powerboat racing news and insights. The following year, he co-founded UKOPRA, helping to rejuvenate offshore racing in the United Kingdom. He sold Powerboat Racing World in late 2021 and remained actively involved with UKOPRA until 2025.
In September 2025, he established Powerboat News, returning to independent journalism with a focus on neutral and comprehensive coverage of the sport.
