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2026

Poole Bay 100 Results: Smokin’ Aces Win Round 2 as Rough Weather Course Runs

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

Roar Offshore Sold to Shaun Torrente and Cole Leibel

B-32 Rasmus Hamrén and Madeleine Samuelsson lead B-62 Lovisa Sahlén and Mattias Lind at the Kalkkiranta Offshore Race 2026

Kalkkiranta Offshore Race 2026: Sweden Sweeps Offshore 3B as Hamrén Takes Finnish Championship Victory

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

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

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

Fountain USA No. 57 yellow superboat at speed, 2000.

Back in the Day

Reggie Fountain: 101 Wins, a Billion Dollars and a Christmas Ham

U185 jet boat on fire at the Canterbury Rivers Race on the Rakaia River, New Zealand, May 30 2026

Crew Safe After Jet Boat Fire at Canterbury Rivers Race on the Rakaia

Samat Kushbek's Change.org petition calling for the cancellation of the F1H2O Grand Prix of Kyrgyzstan at Lake Issyk-Kul

Activists Move to Cancel F1H2O World Championship Round

UIM F1H2O World Champions 1981–2025

UIM F1H2O World Championship 2026: Everything You Need to Know

Chris Loney with his circuit powerboat, pictured before his resignation as CPA Chairman

Circuit Powerboat Association

Chris Loney Resigns as CPA Chairman After Eight Years

UIM Yearbook 2025/26, 33rd edition - featuring Shaun Torrente's fourth F1H2O world title and Mathilda Wiberg's historic F2 championship

UIM Yearbook 2025/26: The 33rd Edition Is Out Now

Grand Prix Motonautique Occitanie 2026 - Championnat de France Inshore at Rivières, Tarn

Grand Prix Motonautique Occitanie 2026 : Tout ce que vous devez savoir

Grand Prix Motonautique Occitanie 2026 - Championnat de France Inshore at Rivières, Tarn

Grand Prix Motonautique Occitanie 2026: Everything You Need to Know

Bluebird K7 on Coniston Water, Bluebird K7 Festival, May 2026. Photo: Simon Wood / Power

Bluebird K7 Returns Home After Historic Week on Coniston Water

US Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton (WMSL-753) underway in the Black Sea

Boating Industry

US Coast Guard to Replace Pyrotechnic Flares on All Cutters by June 2026

Photographer Rob Clifford standing waist-deep in Coniston Water with a telephoto lens on a tripod during the Bluebird K7 Festival, May 2026

The Photographer in the Lake: Rob Clifford at the Bluebird K7 Festival

Bluebird K7 on Coniston Water during the 2026 festival, the hydroplane's first appearance on the lake since Donald Campbell's fatal crash in January 1967

Bluebird K7: Organisers Defend Slow-Speed Day One After Social Media Backlash

Powerboat News Digital Edition: Edition #1 Out Now

Bluebird K7 returns to Coniston Water, 11 May 2026

Bluebird K7 Returns to Coniston Water for First Time Since 1967

Iranian fast attack craft armed with anti-ship missiles

Iran’s Fast Boats: How Offshore Racing Technology Ended Up in the Strait of Hormuz

Mike Howe's Skater 388 race boat with flames coming from the engine vents during testing in Fort Myers, 2026

Howe2Live: The YouTube Channel Taking Offshore Racing to 1.47 Million Fans

Apache 555 at speed during sea trials, viewed from astern, showing surface-piercing drive system and rooster tail

Powerboat People

Finding Speed: Dan Lee’s 3D Analysis Reveals What’s Holding Apache 555 Back

Boats lining up on the Rajang River at the 2026 Sibu International Powerboat Race, Sarawak, Malaysia

Minister Eyes Sibu as Sarawak’s Powerboat Racing Hub

Aaron Ciantar with Malta Prime Minister Robert Abela at the VOOMQUEST UIM Pleasure Navigation World Championship, Malta 2026

Malta Prime Minister Robert Abela Attends VOOMQUEST World Championship

Smedjebackens Båtklubb Honoured by Royal Motorboat Club as GT10 Youth Programme Draws National Interest

UIM Pleasure Navigation World Championship Round 1 Malta 2026 - racing on the Sliema to Grand Harbour course

Round 1 Results: 2026 UIM Pleasure Navigation World Championship, Malta

GP formula tunnel boats lined up on the dock at the Australian Formula Powerboat Grand Prix, Yarrawonga 2026 - 15-boat field including Sam Lucas, Rhys Coles and Will Parker

Will Parker Wins Australian Formula GP at Yarrawonga as Sam Lucas Takes Podium Third

Mercury Pasaka boat number 25 racing at speed on the Rajang River at the 2025 Sibu International Powerboat Race

Sibu International Powerboat Race 2026: 251 Boats Secure Malaysia Book of Records

The new Svemo board: Pelle Larsson, Lars Pärnebjörk, Lotta Kronåker Boström, Ola Hansson, Susanna Hanson Öberg, Ulla Peterson and Jesper Christensen. Photo: Svemo

New Svemo Board Elected at Annual Federation Meeting in Stockholm

Petrol station forecourt at dusk with pumps cordoned off with yellow tape and cars queuing, illustrating the 2026 global fuel crisis

Boating Industry

The Fuel Crisis: What Is Happening, and What It Means

UIM Pleasure Navigation World Championship Malta 2026 - first round at Sliema, April 17-19

UIM Pleasure Navigation World Championship Malta 2026: Everything You Need to Know

UIM President Dr. Raffaele Chiulli speaks to Powerboat News at the Jupiter Lisboa Hotel during the 2026 UIM Mid-Term Meetings

Powerboat People

UIM President Chiulli’s Mission: Modernise a 104-Year-Old Federation

Paulo Ferreira, President of the Federação Portuguesa de Motonáutica (FPM), Lisbon 2026

Powerboat People

Portugal Wins Over UIM as Chiulli’s Lisbon Call Pays Off

Matas Kvizikevičius, head of the Lithuanian Motorboat Academy, Lisbon 2026

Lithuanian Motorboat Academy calls new nations into Formula Future World Championship

Alessandro Bacci at the helm of the Rialto Sette50 with a single 250hp Mercury Verado - capable of over 70 knots

The Venetian Designer Who Built the World’s Fastest Single-Engine Monohull

Sunseeker yachts at the Poole shipyard

Boating Industry

KCP Deal Collapses: Steve Timms Named Sunseeker Interim CEO

Left to right: UIM Secretary General Thomas Kurth, FPM President Paulo Ferreira and UIM President Dr. Raffaele Chiulli check in to the Jupiter Lisboa Hotel ahead of the 2026 UIM Mid-Term Meetings

Powerboat People

UIM in Lisbon as FPM President Ferreira Celebrates Birthday

Powerboat racing action at Stewartby Lake, Bedfordshire during the 2026 SWSC season opener

Circuit Powerboat Association

Storm Dave Cuts Short Stewartby’s British Masters Season Opener

Boating Industry

UK Makes PLB Registration Mandatory from April 15

Grant Trask performs the leggy on the podium at the Grand Prix of Shanghai 2025, drinking champagne from his prosthetic leg

Grant Trask Joins Sharjah Team for Three-Boat 2026 F1H2O Campaign

Powerboat Racing Returns to Southern France After 30-Year Absence

From Rouen to Poses: France’s Powerboat Endurance Racing Returns with UIM World Championship Status

Dan Lee: From Cotswolds Workshop to Apache 555 Hull Specialist

Rouen’s 24 Heures Motonautiques becomes an election issue ahead of Sunday’s run-off

Jeremy Ward wins UIM 2025 Photo Competition

A Word to the Racing Community

Powerboat People

Abu Dhabi Powerboat Team Appoints Majed Al Mansoori as Assistant Technical Manager

Boating Industry

Sunseeker Marks First Hull Lamination of the 134 Superyacht

RWO Sign Ten-Year Deal With UIM

UIM Honours Over 70 World Champions at Monaco Trophy Ceremony

Jamie Copas Named as New E1 Series CEO

Blacker Tests Mercury 250 APX at Carr Mill Dam

Boating Industry

Mercury in Britain: How Big Is the Market, Really?

UIM Delays F4 Cockpit Rules as Compliance Concerns Mount

Estonia's Powerboat Stars and Team AlUla's RaceBird Headline Meremess 2026

Powerboat People

Estonia’s Powerboat Stars and Team AlUla’s RaceBird Headline Meremess 2026

H1 Unlimited Introduces New Race Format Debuting at Madison

Boating Industry

Dubai Boat Show Decision Looms as Gulf Racing Faces Disruption

Powerboat People

World Champions at Sweden’s Biggest Boat Show: Wiberg Siblings to Appear at Allt för sjön

Ramoska Delivers Training Camp Vision in the UAE

Lithuanian Motorboat Academy Delivers First International Formula Future Training Camp in UAE

February 7, 2026

Estonia Honours 14 World and European Championship Medalists

Estonia Honours 14 World and European Championship Medalists

January 28, 2026

Historic 1,860hp Gar Wood Hydroplane Heads to Auction

Historic 1,860hp Gar Wood Hydroplane Heads to Auction

January 8, 2026

Powerboat News Recognised by Google News

Powerboat News Recognised by Google News

January 7, 2026

Motonautica San Nazzaro

Cremona To Carry Olympic Torch After Fourth F250 Title

January 2, 2026

2025

So That Was 2025

December 31, 2025

forecast threatens to disrupt Sharjah F1H2O championship finale

Weather threatens to disrupt Sharjah F1H2O finale

December 14, 2025

IHRA acquires American F1 tunnel boat series with $500k prize fund. Tim Seebold joins expanded powerboat portfolio.

IHRA Acquires F1 Powerboat Racing in Major Expansion

December 11, 2025

UIM Opens Voting for 2025 Driver and Junior Driver of the Year

UIM Opens Voting for 2025 Driver and Junior Driver of the Year

December 9, 2025

Needell Hits Out Against the E1 Series on X

Needell Hits Out Against the E1 Series on X

November 22, 2025

Chasing Dreams: The Percival Hodges Story

Chasing Dreams: The Percival Hodges Story

November 15, 2025

Last to Know - Marit Strømøy

Marit Strømøy Releases “Last to Know” Single

November 11, 2025

Malta Boat Show Debuts Chaudron's Latest Raceboat

Malta Boat Show Debuts Chaudron’s Latest Raceboat

October 30, 2025

Chiulli Calls For United Action On Online Abuse

Chiulli Calls For United Action On Online Abuse

October 29, 2025

Celebration of Life Ceremony for Bill Seebold

Seebold Family Thanks Racing World For Support

October 24, 2025

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ProSport Apparel

October 24, 2025

Giacomo Sacchi Continues Abbate Legacy

October 22, 2025

Billy Seebold: Powerboat Racing’s Greatest Champion Dies

October 22, 2025

The UIM-ABP Aquabike World Championship hits Olbia, Sardinia this weekend with 154 riders competing across 10 categories.

Sardinia Hosts 154 Riders for Aquabike World Round 2

October 14, 2025

Karolis Ramoska, President of both the Lithuanian Motorboat Federation and the Lithuanian Technical Sports Federation Association

Ramoska Secures F2 Long Lap Rule At UIM General Assembly

October 13, 2025

VOLANTEX RC H118 Remote Controlled RC Boat

UIM Launches “Winter Robot Races” to Boost Youth Engagement

October 12, 2025

UIM Teams Championship Approved

October 12, 2025

Raffaele Chiulli UIM President

Chiulli Secures Fifth Term As UIM President

October 12, 2025

UIM Teams Championship Proposal

October 9, 2025

98th UIM General Assembly

98th UIM General Assembly Underway In Shanghai This Week

October 9, 2025

Three Generations of Kade Racing Excellence

October 3, 2025

Qatar’s Sheikh Hassan makes dramatic return to partner Steve Curtis in Key West

September 21, 2025

From Cockpit to Command: Al-Qamzi Takes Management Role

September 8, 2025

Never Say Never Again

September 5, 2025

Introducing powerboat.news

September 4, 2025

2023

Jonas Andersson Seals Teams’ Championship with Sharjah Victory

December 10, 2023

2022

Shaun Torrente, 2022 UIM F1H2O World Champion, at the season finale in Sharjah

Torrente Clinches Third World Title on Dramatic Showdown Sunday in Sharjah

December 18, 2022

2021

Jonas Andersson Wins First World Title with Back-to-Back Victories in Figueira da Foz

November 28, 2021