Key West World Championship 2026 Round-Up

The 45th Key West World Championship finished on Sunday, November 8, with 14 champions crowned from about 100 boats over three days of racing. It was the biggest Key West field in decades, according to the Florida Keys News Bureau. Race World Offshore (RWO) produced the week, with XINSURANCE as presenting sponsor.

Sunday ended early. The Key West Citizen reports that crashes stopped the Class 1, Class 2, Super Cat and Super Stock races, and that every driver was fine apart from one Super Cat driver with a hand injury. Our own day-by-day reports are here: Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Team Bermuda won the Super Stock Key West world title, Nuff Said went home with the quickest boat on the water and a lap penalty, and a first-year Class 2 team from South Carolina took a world title without winning a race. The full champions’ tables are below.

Two World Titles, Two Sets of Winners

Key West awarded two different sets of titles this year. The UIM World Championships covered four classes (Class 1, Class 2, Super Cat and Super Stock; Super Stock was added as the fourth UIM class for 2026) and were settled by Friday evening. The Key West World Championships ran across all 14 classes through Sunday. Both sets of results come from the RWO results recap.

UIM World Champions

RWO lists Class 1 second and third level on 71 points. Class 1 and Class 2 are scored on a different scale from the other classes.

Key West World Champions

Source for both tables: Race World Offshore. Points in Class 1 and Class 2 are on a different scale from the rest.

Sunday: Four Classes Stopped by Crashes

Sunday was the day the week turned. According to the Key West Citizen, crashes stopped the races in Class 1, Class 2, Super Cat and Super Stock, and the Monster Energy / M CON Class 1 team took its third straight Key West win at close to 150 mph.

In Class 2, Monster Energy / HURT and 151 Express collided and went airborne off the Pier House Resort, according to the Citizen. Rescue crews were there at once, and the Florida Keys News Bureau reports that all three crews were OK after the pair launched off Say Less Racing in the harbour turn. Jackhammer won the Sunday Class 2 race after the restart, which was not enough to catch Lake Wylie in the points.

Team Bermuda’s First Key West Title

Team Bermuda’s Super Stock entry, a Doug Wright catamaran with Selley and Bridges aboard, finished seventh on Wednesday and won on Friday, in a 16-boat Super Stock field that was the week’s largest class. The Royal Gazette reports that the team went into Sunday with an eight-point lead and five teams still in contention; Bernews has Nuff Said second at that point.

The Sunday race was restarted twice, once after a poor start and once after a mishap that wiped out two boats, according to the Royal Gazette. A marine mammal in the course then ended the race early and the positions were frozen, as reported by BBC Bermuda and the Royal Gazette. The team finished the Key West points on 3,814, 1,058 clear of Raymarine, which had clinched the UIM Super Stock title on series points on Friday, according to the Florida Keys News Bureau.

Bridges, quoted by the Royal Gazette:

It’s just awesome and a dream come true.

Nuff Said: Quickest on the Water, Fifteenth on the Sheet

Nuff Said, the Bermudian team that finished runner-up in 2025 (Bernews), won Wednesday’s shortened race on the water. The Royal Gazette reports that the boat hit a buoy on lap two while chasing Shaun Torrente and was handed a one-lap penalty that dropped it to 15th. Martins first thought the penalty was 30 seconds, per the Royal Gazette. A red flag came on lap five when Cameron Turk and Owen Bois flipped (BBC Bermuda).

The recovery was slow. Nuff Said was seventh on Friday, ninth in the standings going into Sunday, and second in the Sunday race. The RWO recap has S-54 STR / Allied as the Wednesday race winner on the official sheet.

Lake Wylie: Champions Without a Win

Lake Wylie Racing is a Clover, South Carolina team run by Joe Spoloric as owner and driver with Garrett Coonrod as throttleman. RWO’s Class 2 page lists a 39ft 2023 catamaran with twin 500hp Mercury engines. WCNC reports the team had an April flip while leading a race before Key West.

In Key West the team finished second, third and second across the three days, never winning a race, and still took the Key West Class 2 title on 57 points from Jackhammer on 48. It also finished third in the UIM Class 2 standings behind Team Montlick.

Team Montlick clinched the UIM Class 2 title on Wednesday on season points, the first Class 2 world title in 25 years and the first on US water, according to the team’s release.

Miller and Coil: Two Classes, One Wednesday

Miller and Coil won both Class 1 and Class 2 on Wednesday, according to the RWO recap. Caplin News reports that the pair were in a three-boat wreck in which they rolled. Miller told Caplin News:

I’m glad everybody’s good.

The Rest of the Field

CR Racing won all three of its Key West races and took both the UIM and Key West Super Cat titles, according to the Florida Keys News Bureau. OC Racing won Bracket 200, Wicked / Lakeside won Cat 300 and Moderation won Bracket 600, each on 4,800 points. The closest finish was Bracket 400, where Hartman / XINSURANCE took the title by 15 points, 3,900 to 3,885 over Saris.

The Citizen reports an expanded eight-race RWO schedule for 2027. Key West itself is tied up until 2031 under RWO’s five-year agreement, and our earlier event preview covers how the week was laid out.