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Commentary—Enter The World Powerboat Racing Association
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Commentary—Enter The World Powerboat Racing Association

ByMatt Trulio May 3, 2025May 3, 2025

For the record, I am not a huge fan of the American Power Boat Association or the Union Internationale Motonautique. Both over-value their importance when it comes to offshore powerboat racing. Both are longstanding organizations afflicted with the same kind of “We know better” hubris…

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Commentary—Outerlimits Cats Out Of The Bag
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Commentary—Outerlimits Cats Out Of The Bag

ByMatt Trulio May 1, 2025May 1, 2025

When Mike Fiore started Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats in 1993, the company only offered brawny high-performance V-bottoms and was located in Long Island, N.Y. That Fiore launched the brand with V-bottoms in mind made perfect sense, at least at the time. The son of Hustler Boats…

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Commentary—Dude, It’s a Skater
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Commentary—Dude, It’s a Skater

ByMatt Trulio April 29, 2025April 29, 2025

Whether you’re talking about conventional fiberglass and vinylester resin or epoxy and carbon fiber, composite plastics last pretty much forever if properly cared for. Keep it clean, store it properly and treat it kindly and you’ll go through a slew of repower projects long before…

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Commentary—Push Back On The Photo Drones
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Commentary—Push Back On The Photo Drones

ByMatt Trulio April 22, 2025April 23, 2025

Yesterday’s commentary praising the possibilities and safety benefits of using drones for aerial photography and videography stirred strong emotions, mostly—and notably—from photographers. As I stated in the first line of the editorial, none of the photographers I work with are in any danger of losing…

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Commentary—Bring On The Photo Drones
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Commentary—Bring On The Photo Drones

ByMatt Trulio April 21, 2025April 21, 2025

Though camera-equipped drones aren’t about to put any of the photographers I work with out of business, I look forward to their ongoing technological evolution. That has nothing to do with the costs involved, though hourly helicopter prices continue to get steeper, or the photo…

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Up Alligator Creek With No Regrets
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Up Alligator Creek With No Regrets

ByMatt Trulio April 18, 2025April 18, 2025

As a reporter on scene to cover most Fort Myers Offshore events this season, which began in October 2024, there’s no way I’d miss this weekend’s grand finale. From the Junkanoo Below Deck restaurant in Fort Myers Beach to the three Fishermen eatery in North…

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The Right Angle Of The Sea
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The Right Angle Of The Sea

ByMatt Trulio April 15, 2025April 15, 2025

Great voiceover from “Chasing Mavericks,” a movie based on the short and remarkable life of big-wave surfer Jay Moriarity? “We call come from the sea. But we are not all of the sea. Those of us who are, we children of the tides, must return…

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Commentary—Garden State Bonds Mature
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Commentary—Garden State Bonds Mature

ByMatt Trulio April 14, 2025April 14, 2025

From the early-to-late 2000s, the New Jersey Performance Powerboat Club was among the most vibrant organizations of its kind. The outfit was founded by the late Raymond Patnaude, who died in June 2024. Long before the senior Patnaude passed away, his son, Dave, took the…

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Commentary—Small Keys To Paradise
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Commentary—Small Keys To Paradise

ByMatt Trulio March 26, 2025March 26, 2025

On any given weekend as you approach Islamorada, Fla., by car on the Overseas Highway—also known as U.S. Route 1—you can spy the famed Islamorada Sandbar. As you get closer to the popular raft-up spot, the specks dotting the soft-sand shallows become a mix of…

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Commentary—Working Ground Zero
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Commentary—Working Ground Zero

ByMatt Trulio March 9, 2025March 9, 2025

Now that I live in Florida full-time—I just moved to Palmetto this week, though I’ll spend May through October in Fort Myers Beach house-sitting for Fort Myers Offshore leaders Tim and Cyndee Hill—I have just one question. How did I handle the travel for this…

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