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4 days ago | 
workboat.com | Eric Colby
Imagine you’re a crewmember on a working vessel and one of your crewmates falls overboard. Instantly, you jump into action, grabbing a specially-made, lightweight pole with an ergonomically-designed hook. Even if the person in the water is unconscious, the pole gently grabs the individual. In seconds, you guide the victim to the bow of the boat, where a specially-designed conveyor belt hauls the person safely back on deck. Imagine no more.
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4 days ago | 
speedonthewater.com | Eric Colby
The Monster Energy/M CON Pro Class 1 team of owner/throttleman Tyler Miller and driver Myrick Coil are known for their fastidious attention to detail. They test frequently in their 43-foot Skater at their home base in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., and are one of the best prepared crews in offshore powerboat racing. On the second day of the XINSURANCE Offshore Lake of the Ozarks race, a calculated gamble paid big dividends for the hometown Monster Energy/M CON Pro Class 1 team.
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5 days ago | 
speedonthewater.com | Eric Colby
The first half of 2025 for the offshore powerboat racing community has been tumultuous to say the least. With barely a month before the first race of the season, Thunder on Cocoa Beach on the weekend of May 17-18, after months of angry back-and-forth between the American Power Boat Association and the teams in the sport’s premier category, Class 1, the decision was made to form a new sanctioning body, the World Powerboat Racing Association.
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1 week ago | 
speedonthewater.com | Eric Colby
When Ryan Haines and his family go boating, they don’t pile into the boat, run 10 minutes to a sandbar and sit there all day. They log serious time and cover some miles on their 45-foot Don Smith powerboat, Lady K, which is named for Haines’ wife Kandace. “We went to Bimini last Sunday for the day, went swimming and came home,” said Haines who lives in Boca Raton, Fla. That’s a 50-mile one-way trip and it includes crossing the Gulf Stream.
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1 week ago | 
workboat.com | Eric Colby
Mike Hanna has worked for the Association of Maryland Pilots for 41 years. He began his career on the Maryland, a 200' oceangoing tug converted into a pilot boat, stationed off Cape Henry, Virginia Beach, Va., to assist pilots during their round trips along Chesapeake Bay. After the Maryland was retired, the association shifted to a shore-based operation, where Hanna started as a launch operator and eventually moved up to the pilot tower.
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1 month ago | 
speedonthewater.com | Eric Colby
Earlier this year, Bud Lorow and Val Jenkins got a call that their longtime friend, Allan “Brownie” Brown wasn’t doing too well and had been told to get his affairs in order. The three were former employees at Cigarette Racing Team and had stayed close through the decades that followed their departures from the company. During the 2020 Thunder On Cocoa Beach, longtime friends Steve Curtis and Allan Brown (right) caught in the dry pits. Photo by Matt Trulio/Speedonthwater.com.
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1 month ago | 
workboat.com | Eric Colby
Imagine being at the helm of a commercial vessel or part of a search-and-rescue team in rough seas at night. Radar is picking up objects, and your night-vision camera picks up shapes, but you have no idea if they’re waves, whales, or a shipping container bobbing at the surface. If your boat has SEA.AI, a computer-based machine-vision system, the technology could identify objects in more detail than the human eye can provide and alert crewmembers about what’s in front of them.
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1 month ago | 
speedonthewater.com | Eric Colby
In the first race of a season, there are new teams, sometimes in new boats or in new classes. That translates into a steep learning curve and a distinct advantage for the teams running the same in-cockpit pairing in the same boat as last year. Veteran driver-throttleman combinations claimed checkered flags in all the professional classes at the 16th annual Keltec Thunder on Cocoa Beach. Photos by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
speedonthewater.com | Eric Colby
Nineteen-year-old Billy Moore strapped into the driver’s seat of an offshore raceboat for the first time in competition in the 1996 season-opener in Key West, Fla. Alongside in the enclosed cockpit of the 46-foot Skater catamaran powered by four 1,000-hp Mercury Racing engines was legendary throttleman Bobby Moore, who happened to be his father. The two had logged countless hours testing boats, but on race day, Billy saw a different side of his usually low-key dad.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
thelog.com | Eric Colby
The 16th annual Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup will take place March 7 through 9 at the Los Angeles Yacht Club (LAYC). California State University Maritime Academy will host nine other collegiate sailing teams from around the country, including the defending champions from the Maine Maritime Academy. “We consider ourselves one of the premier intercollegiate regattas,” said Tom Trujillo, Principal Race Officer and Staff Commodore at the Los Angeles Yacht Club.
