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Friday, April 25 Cigarette Racing Team Opening First Dealership In JapanThe iconic brand now has its first dealer-presence in the island nation. Gallery Of The Week: Desert Storm Street Busts Another BlockThe 2025 version of the Desert Storm Poker Run Street is in the books…
Though Cigarette Racing Team has representation in Europe and the Middle East, until now the iconic custom V-bottom and center console builder never had a dealership in Japan. Dubbed Cigarette of Japan and located in the island nation’s Aichi Prefecture, the 56-year-old Opa-locka, Fla., company’s…
Other than providing the opportunity to pal around with peers each summer, the powerboat dealer meetings of old were useless for reporters. There were exceptions of course. No marine writer worth his or her salt wanted to miss the fiery “welcome” speech by the late…
Friday, April 18 Fort Myers Offshore Season-Finale Leaning Toward Lighter TurnoutWith less than 24 hours to go, just 50 boats are registered for the last event of the club’s 2024/2025 season. KelTec Steps Up As Title Sponsor For Thunder On Cocoa BeachThe KelTec Thunder On…
Just five months ago at the Fort Myers Offshore Holiday Fun Run to Riviera Bar and Grill in Punta Gorda, Fla., Bob Barnhart and Eric Belisle, two former presidents of the nonprofit scholarship fundraising club, gazed wide-eyed into the throng of 400-plus-participants. Neither Barnhart nor…
Last Friday evening’s “Boats N Babies” dinner-social fundraiser at the Big Thunder Marine Speed and Luxury Showroom in Lake Ozark., Mo., raised more than $40,000 for The Changing Table, a local nonprofit organization that supplies diapers and more to impoverished clients. The director of The…
Friday, April 11 Boys And Their BoysRelentless hair growth, high-end red-meat consumption and fuel-system conversion? The things you learn about your friends’ kids these days. Cigarette Racing Kentucky Kicking Off Season With New 41 Nighthawk To ShowcaseThe start of an ambitious event-schedule is coming up…
Quick quiz: What is closest island country to the United States by water? You have 10 seconds to answer. If you came up with the Bahamas, you’re correct. If you choose the island of Bimini in the Bahamas archipelago, you’re even more correct. The Florida…
For Waves and Wheels owner Justin Wagner and his crew, showcasing their wares at the three-day Desert Storm Poker Run is a hefty travel-and-time commitment. First, it’s an almost 3,000-mile journey from their home-base at Lake of the Ozarks in Osage Beach, Mo., to Desert…
Unveiled at the 2015 Miami International Boat Show, the new Nor-Tech Hi-Performance Boats 527 V-bottom was the property of Mark and Eileen Fischer of South Florida. The couple ran the twin Mercury Racing 1350 engine-powered 52-footer the following weekend in the Florida Powerboat Club Miami…
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