WHAT HAPPENED TO OFFSHORE POWERBOATS? takes you back to a time when South Florida was the epicenter of something wild: Loud, fast and completely unapologetic.
In the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, offshore racing was a spectacle. Cigarettes flying across the water, giant engines screaming at full throttle, race-bred hulls dancing on the edge, and a cast of characters who seemed determined to push everything just a little bit further.
From Bertram, Formula, Donzi, Magnum, Cigarette, Apache, Fountain, Skater, Outerlimits, MTI and Scarab, these were the boats that became legends.
Follow the story from the legendary offshore battles of South Florida to the modern performance-boat scene, where the lessons learned at 100+ mph still live on in today's machines. Race-bred hulls, massive horsepower and hard-earned technology eventually flowed into the production marke, helping give rise to the high-performance center console.
This is the story of what was lost, what survived, and how the offshore racing world changed boating forever.
