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POWERBOATS ARE COMING BACK TO MARATHON IN 2023

For the first time since 2016, powerboat racing is set to return to Marathon in 2023.

The announcement comes courtesy of a June 21 press release from Race World Offshore (RWO), the same organization responsible for Key West’s popular powerboat races, announcing the inaugural 7 Mile Offshore Grand Prix on April 28-30, 2023.

As an officially sanctioned race in the American Power Boat Association’s (APBA) National Series, the race will be the first of the 2023 season, which will return to the Keys for its conclusion in Key West in November.

Although some boats are known to stop in Marathon during poker runs and on their way to Key West for the annual races, Marathon has not hosted an official offshore race since 2016’s Super Boat International Marathon Super Boat Grand Prix.

“I’ve lived in Key West for 30 years, and I have to tell you, of all the stuff we put on Facebook and all the things that we do, we’ve gotten the most comments and most everything for this event than anything we’ve done, which is unbelievable,” RWO president Larry Bleil told Keys Weekly. 

Though RWO has looked to return to Marathon for several years, the completion of the Old Seven Mile Bridge finally provided the possibility for a new near-shore viewer-friendly course. According to RWO, it has obtained permission to set up VIP tents and viewing areas along the old bridge.

“I didn’t really want to do it until we could have a good spectator area,” said Bleil. “Now that that’s done, you couldn’t ask for anything better.”

Though course details have yet to be finalized, Bleil says the general idea is for the boats to run east along the north side of the Seven Mile Bridge from Pigeon Key before eventually making a 180-degree turn off of Tranquility Bay resort and heading back toward the center of the bridge in a prolonged all-out straightaway.

In addition to securing course permits from the U.S. Coast Guard, race organizers will coordinate with the city of Marathon for land-based activities. As they do in Key West, RWO plans to coordinate with Turtle Hospital founder Richie Moretti to survey the course from the air and make sure it is cleared of turtles and other wildlife that could be harmed by the high-speed races. Depending on their class, Bleil expects most boats to reach speeds of 120 to 165 mph if the race days yield calm conditions across the course’s longest straightaways.

Locations of dry and wet pits for the racers will be announced in the coming months, along with sponsors and a host hotel for the event. If the social media frenzy around RWO’s press release is any indication, the event should draw a large crowd of locals and visitors in Marathon.

“We’re excited to see the races come back,” said Marathon city manager George Garrett. “Economically it will be a boon to the city’s businesses, particularly the hospitality industry and everything associated with that. … We’d love to have the powerboat races become another signature event for the City of Marathon.”

“I’ve been waiting a long time for this,” said Bleil. “I thought, ‘Man, once (the bridge) is finished, we need to do a race along there.’ … It’ll give a new perspective as people can stand on the bridge and sort of look down onto the boats. … It’ll be just a great, great view.”

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7 Mile Offshore Grand Prix Wrap Up: Wild Weather, Eight Laps and Five Crashes

When the 65 offshore powerboat racing teams and fans in Marathon, Fla., awoke this morning they were greeted by an ominous message: “Tornado watch for the Southern Keys.”

The inaugural 7 Mile Offshore Grand Prix proved that no matter how much we prepare, Mother Nature is still in charge. Photos by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix .

That set the tone for a day of racing that was going to challenge the officials from Race World Offshore and the American Power Boat Association in ways they had never imagined. After two boats in the 450R Factory Stock class flipped or blew over in barely two laps of competition on Sunday afternoon, officials put an end to the carnage by canceling competition for the rest of the day. The decision was made by RWO and APBA officials with input from the United States Coast Guard.

“It was a matter of safety and the decision of the Coast Guard,” said RWO president Larry Bleil.

“And common sense,” added APBA Offshore chairman Rich Luhrs.

The first race of the 2023 APBA offshore national series, the 7 Mile Offshore Grand Prix was backed by Performance Boat Center and M CON offshore racing. Sixty-five teams showed up in Marathon, Fla., and there was a buzz of positivity about the upcoming season in the air. There were nine boats registered for the Super Cat class. Mod V and Super Stock both had double-digit entries and the 450R Factory Stock fleet felt like it was growing by the week.

Saturday’s pole-position qualifying round was all fans would see of the Super Cat class this weekend.

While the bracket classes and the Super Cats had chamber-of-commerce conditions for racing and pole-position qualifying on Saturday, Mother Nature had other plans for Sunday. Winds gusting well over 25 mph and rain whipped across the course all morning and by the time the two boats had incidents in 450R Factory Stock, the race officials and the Coast Guard had seen enough and called off competition for the weekend.

No Sunday Picnic The 450R Factory Stock race started with six catamarans powered by Mercury Racing 450R outboards. Three of the boats were Marine Technology Inc. 39-foot catamarans and three were 38-foot Doug Wright cats. The lanes were determined by a blind draw and the 38-foot Doug Wright catamaran, Doug Wright Powerboats, with throttleman Ricky Maldonado and driver 18-year-old Logan Adan, was on the outside in lane six. To the team’s left on the inside were John Tomlinson and Taylor Scism in the 39-foot MTI, Marine Technology, Lee Murray and Edwin Scheer in the 38-foot Doug Wright, Hank’s Saloon , and the 39-foot MTI, GC Racing, with driver Willie Cabeza and throttleman Gary Ballough. Also on the inside, were throttleman Nick Imprescia and driver Ian Morgan, who are new to the class, in the 39-foot MTI, 151 Express.

When the boats headed toward turn one, it appeared on video footage that Doug Wright Powerboats started to move to the inside from lane six. Marine Technology and Hank’s Saloon both turned right through Doug Wright Powerboats’ roostertail to avoid a collision.

Marker 17 Marine led for much of the Mod V race until the team’s 29-foot Outerlimits donated a Bravo XR drive to the sea floor.

In the he-said, he-said that was sure to follow, Maldonado said, “I left everyone plenty of room.”

Murray, an offshore racing veteran returning to the sport after a lengthy absence, didn’t mince words. “They didn’t maintain their lane,” he said of Doug Wright Powerboats.

Apparently the ABPA agreed with Murray because the results released after the race showed that Doug Wright Powerboats was disqualified. That gave the win to Tomlinson and Scism in Marine Technology followed by 151 Express and Hank’s Saloon . GC Racing rolled after trying to cut under Hank’s Saloon in a turn and Ballough said it was simply a racing incident.

When the red flag flew, Murray and Scheer caught a gust of wind and stood their boat straight up before coming down on the transom and flopping backwards, landing upside down. Both escaped the incident unharmed and, despite the carnage, said they were pleased with how the boat ran and that they just needed some more props to work with from Mercury Racing.

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A few hours earlier, Sunday started with the nine teams in Mod V and the seven teams in Bracket 500 taking to the 5.6-mile counter-clockwise course. The Mod-V boats were supposed to run eight laps with the bracket boats running five.

After multiple delays for weather, when the green flag finally flew, the Mod V boats charged toward turn one with Brian Forehand and Vinnie Diorio in the 29-foot Outerlimits, Marker 17 Marine , leading followed by owner/throttleman Stephen Kildahl and driver Steve Kildahl (his son) in the 29-foot Extreme, Boatfloater.com. They were chased by the 30-foot Phantom, Fastboys , the 30-foot Extreme, Sun Print , and the 29-foot Extreme, LSB Rev-X Oil .

Racing was tight in the Mod V class contest.

Marker 17 Marine came past the finish line in the lead followed by Boatfloater.com , Fastboys, Sun Print and LSB Rev-X Oil. In the Bracket 500 race, the 30-foot Phantom, TFR/XINSURANCE, with throttleman Micheal Stancombe and owner/driver J.J. Turk, led the way followed by throttleman Craig Belfato and drive Elijah Kingery, in the 29-foot Warlock, Bulletproof , and another 29-foot Warlock, Hammerheads/SRQ .

The first red flag for the first race on Sunday flew when Marker 17 Marine’s drive came off the boat and launched skyward. The boat slid backward to a stop causing every team behind it to take evasive action. Soon after, the 29-foot Zero Tolerance, TM Farnsworth Motorsports/Hancock Claims running in Bracket 500 had an incident between turns one and two that spit out driver Ervin Grant and throttleman Rob O’Connell, but they were OK after the race.

Sun Print flew to victory in the rough and rowdy Mod V contest.

This left Sun Print leading the Mod V race to the checkered flag followed by Boatfloater.com and LSB in third. The Mod V race wasn’t without more incidents. When a red flag was thrown during a squall, the 30-foot Phantom, Laticrete , slowed so quickly that it caught the Shocker team off guard. In a text to speedonthewater.com, Shocker owner/driver Chris Colson said that he didn’t expect Laticrete to chop the throttles and that he had to make an evasive maneuver to avoid hitting other boats. That caused Shocker to roll. Colson and throttleman Ray Evans were OK.

Because of multiple delays caused by weather, the Bracket 500 teams were sent back to the pits. First went to TFR/Xinsurance followed by Bulletproof and Hammerheads/SRQ .

Saturday In The Park In a stark contrast to Sunday, Saturday brought beautiful weather that let to most of the Bracket-class boats running in relatively calm conditions.

Throttleman Chad Woody and driver Billy Shipley led flag to flag in the 35-foot Fountain, Team Woody . For the record, they were running in Bracket 300. In the Bracket 200 class, the 41-foot Apache, Predator , continued its winning ways with its new 1,100-hp Express engines, taking top honors over the 39-foot Velocity, GNS Motorsports, the 38-foot Phantom, OC Racing , and the 42-foot V-bottom, Cigarette Justice League.

Team Woody took top honors in the Bracket 300 class on Saturday and team owner Billy Shipley joined Todd Swofford and speedonthewater.com offshore racing correspondent Eric Colby for much of the Race World Offshore livestream broadcast on Sunday.

In Bracket 400, the 34-foot Phantom, MSR Racing, took the win followed by its sistership, Simmons Racing, and a canopied Phantom, Rollin’ Dirty.

In Bracket 600, the 26-foot Corsa, Gerard Marine, took top honors followed by the 24-foot Reindl bat boat, Reindl/Ultimate Boat Racing , and the 26-foot Joker, Freebird , with newcomers Ryan Stahlman and Reef Dellanos.

In Bracket 700, the 21-foot Superboat, Jackhammer, didn’t break out and won the race followed by the new entry TFR/XINSURANCE and the 22-foot Velocity, Dees Nuts.

Of the two classes that didn’t race on Sunday, the purse for Super Stock was distributed evenly among the 11 boats that registered for the class and each team earned 45 points. The nine boats in Super Cat earned half the points they would have earned for winning the race based on their finish in the pole-position qualifying time trials.

The Predator Apache continued its winning ways in the Bracket 200 class.

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First recognized as a sport in 1904, offshore powerboat racing began as point-to-point, endurance races frequently spanning hundreds of miles of open ocean. In the mid-1990s, offshore became near-shore racing in a track style format, a circuit loop around which boats raced for a number of pre-determined laps. This improved the viewing for the spectators.

During the years, the near-shore course has gotten smaller and shorter. Today a race course is normally a small 5-mile oval as close to the beach as possible. Since the beach drops off quickly, the boats usually run within 150 feet of the surf. Even the outside leg can be clearly seen from the shoreline.

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Where marathon racing began

Ray reveals his key part in the birth of offshore marathon powerboat racing

Many of the teams that have entered the Venture Cup London to Monte Carlo race in June probably take marathon racing for granted, but it hasn’t always been a major motorboating sport. In fact, the first event of its kind took place less than 50 years ago.

Several long-distance races on the sea were recorded in the early years of motorised boating but these were little more than single-leg A to B affairs rather than the current format where the entire course is broken down into separate sections and raced day after day.

In 1905 a 500-mile race took place in the Mediterranean between Algiers and Toulon but this had to be abandoned when a severe storm decimated the fleet. Little more happened until after the First World War.

Records show the Royal Motor Yacht Club organised a long-distance offshore event in the 1920s and 30s. It was known as the London to Cowes but catered for craft very different from those that will be setting off from Greenwich on June 7. Most were standard seagoing motor cruisers covering the course under rules very similar to those currently used for predicted log rallies.

It was in September 1968 that I was invited to lunch in London’s Wig and Pen club by Group Capt ‘ Crab’ Searle. Gaining his nickname in WWII for being one of the first to land a Spitfire cross-wind (crabbing), he ran a marine PR agency during which time he also became yachting correspondent for the old London Evening News.

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He had an idea, as well as the powerful backing of the Daily Telegraph and BP, and was asking me if it would be possible to run a powerboating race around the British coastline. By coincidence my old mate, the late Geoff Tobert, and I had been planning yet another long-distance seagoing expedition over a similar course using a 20ft open runabout but Crab’s idea was far more exciting.

I had told him I thought it was an ambitious suggestion long before I’d finished my dessert but possible, and that such an event would be a great race. And so marathon racing was born. Crab passed the organisation over to the Royal Southern YC that was to later sadly sideline its instigator.

It took place in the summer of 1969 and was a tremendous event which later set the pattern for all future marathons by creating a new set of international rules allowing competitors to gain finishing places despite missing sections due to mechanical breakdown or hull damage.

Of the 42 boats HRH the Duke of Edinburgh flagged away from Portsmouth in July that year over half were still racing when they returned ten days later, a great success by any standard.

Understandably, with the backing of the Daily Telegraph , the race received huge media exposure. The Ford Motor Company, which had its own team of three Ford Sabre-powered Fairey cruisers, produced the 30-minute film Ride the White Horses (below), which the BBC used to pilot the forthcoming colour transmission. It was transmitted after the station closed down every night for more than 12 months. Imagine its value to a sponsor in today’s economic climate!

In 1972 the late John Chitty and his wife Hillary staged an even more ambitious race from London to Monte Carlo. In comparison to Crab Searle and his serious sponsorship, the pair worked with a mere £30k (worth about £200k today) given by the Kent marina company, Richborough Port Developments.

Despite John Chitty being told by various powerboating pundits his race was an impossibility with competitors having little chance of reaching north-west France, let alone the Mediterranean, he went ahead regardless and in doing so went down in powerboating history. It was a tremendous success with a high percentage of entries reaching the principality in fine style headed by Jaffa Orange Juice but won on elapsed time by HTS (pictured).

Another 12 years passed before the next marathon took place, this time the Everest Double Glazing Round Britain organised by UKOBA and headed by Tim Powell. By now the cost of offshore racing had risen dramatically and while still very popular, hull size and horsepower had come down. Apart from two Italian entries in the Class I category the majority of contenders were smaller Class II outfits plus a couple from Class III, one entered by Gina Campbell.

Again, it became a great adventure dominated throughout by Italian teams with Fabio Buzzi winning by a large time margin. Second place was filled by fellow Italian Renato Della Valle whose boat was powered by a pair of Lamborghini racing engines making their offshore debut.

This time the fleet numbered less than half the 1969 line-up but nevertheless revived enthusiasm for this type of offshore challenge. In fact it certainly fired up the Italians who began following suit with events such as the Venice to Monte Carlo.

Twenty-four years passed before we had a fourth British marathon. In 2008 ex-offshore competitor Mike Lloyd organised the third Round Britain Race.

By now the sport had changed dramatically. The size of offshore fleets in all classes had come down considerablyand Britain’s leading offshore organiser, the United Kingdom Offshore Boating Association, had all but ceased to exist.

The annual Cowes-Torquay-Cowes, which had been considered Europe’s premier offshore event, saw fleets shrink from line-ups of more than 50 to just a handful. Perhaps more important, powerboat racing had lost the interest of the media and in doing so no longer attracted the same level of financial sponsorship so vital to any organiser.

Despite this, Lloyd’s event went ahead attracting a healthy number of competitors thanks to a last minute injection of funds by Fiat but the pattern of craft was no longer the same.

When the Daily Telegraph & BP Round Britain took place in 1969 the rigid inflatable hull (RIB) was virtually unknown. Apart from the little Psychedelic Surfer entered by John Caulcutt the remaining fleet were all traditional monohulls. However by 2008 monohulls accounted for only half the line-up and the forthcoming Venture Cup to Monte Carlo will almost certainly have a high percentage of RIBs.

The first Round Britain fleet was mostly powered by gasoline engines while the second in 1984 saw a marked increase in diesel units. The 2008 event was almost entirely diesel and the forthcoming Venture Cup is certain to see a complete reversal in form of power from the ’69 race.

In those days offshore multihulls hardly existed. It’s therefore no surprise the fleet was totally monohull. The same applied to the London to Monte Carlo in 1972 but in 1984 catamarans began making an appearance. They proved a disaster.

While offshore multihulls could indeed outpace the entire fleet as regards speed and performance they were no match when it came to rough offshore conditions. Only one reached the finish and the lessons learned here were taken on by Mike Lloyd in 2008.

He restricted his entry to monohulls and RIBs and this has since been wisely adopted for the Venture Cup where heavy swells in the Bay of Biscay and Golfe du Lion would almost certainly prove a bridge too far for cats.

There is little doubt that marathon offshore powerboat competition has done its bit when it comes to innovations in the design of domestic motor yachts. Hulls, power units, safety and reliability at sea have all benefited.

Long-distance offshore powerboat racing has therefore come a long way since my lunch at the Wig and Pen club all those years ago. Just as well I told the late Crab Searle his race was possible after all!

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