DCB IS HEADING TO BARRETT JACKSON JANUARY 12-19, 2014

Actually selling the High Performance Boating experience to the car market is no easy task. This coming Sunday DCB is presenting two amazing boats at the Scottsdale Vender Experience and we know DCB is the perfect company, with the perfect boats, and the perfect team to sell to the crowd at Barrett-Jackson.

DCB’s Tony Chiaramonte, told us he is looking forward to getting the boats in front of some new eyes and potential new customers! They will have two amazing new boats on display , a newly built M35 and another fresh M29.

DCB just came out incredible showing at SEMA and now at Barrett-Jackson, having this type of consistent exposure is great for the entire performance boat market.

Following Barrett-Jackson we are looking forward to seeing Tony and DCB customer Win Farnsworth with Win’s M41 back in South Florida for the Miami Boat Show Poker run.

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/scottsdale/

The Garage with Dennis Show goes to BoostPower Marine

Real gear heads like most Powerboat Nation members typically have more than just boats in their performance stable and that means your experience extends beyond power boating into a wide range of power products. For most of us in the PBN family we not only have or enjoy amazing boats but our sister hobbies include things like Harleys, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Rat Rods and other cool things we can tear up the world with.

If you’re a hot rod automotive enthusiast then you will recognize Dennis from the popular show “The Garage with Dennis”. Dennis recently visited BoostPower Marine in sunny southern California and spent the afternoon with Alexi Sahagian owner of BoostPower Marine. Dennis produced the following show and we thought you guys would love to see a thorough behind the scenes look at not only Boost Powers new B3 supercharger system but some other great insights in performance boating.

If you’re in the southern California area you really should stop and see the facility as BoostPower Marine as it is literally a show piece facility with incredible performance hardware laying around all over.

If you can’t travel to SoCal then you can just take it all in here.

“MOJO” The Miami Vice movie boat was sold at a recent Barrett Jackson Auction for $283,800. This boat was used by Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx in the recent movie “Miami Vice” by Michael Mann. After filming the movie, this boat was sent to Visual Imaginations where money was no object and had a paint job like you’ve never seen. This paint job includes actual computerized film slides from the movie also as well the seats and the interior have the same paint scheme. This 1150hp machine will hit speeds up to 120 mph. Marine Technology is at the top of the game when it comes to pleasure and race boats.

This 39ft MTI is equipped to the max with the Mercury Racing package including #6 drives, bonded hull and deck, custom exhaust, electronics GPS package, cockpit cover, stereo CD, DVD with rear seat entertainment, carbon trim package and lots more. This boat has extremely low hours basically from the filming of the movie. This boat is in flawless condition. It will draw a crowd wherever it goes. Maybe in your favorite waterway or maybe even a museum. Whichever, it is sure to be a crowd pleaser.

This is a very rare collector piece that comes with documentation of its authenticity. It was sold with a matching custom H2 Hummer convertible and an American Tilt trailer. Not a bad buy if we say so ourselves!

2006 MARINE TECHNOLOGY INC 39RP Lot 5033 | Barrett-Jackson Auction Company

UPDATE 1-22-14: We apologize that we incorrectly reported the original 2008 Auction sale price in the first version of this article.

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New Years Day usually represents hangovers and alka-seltzer but for the Hot Boating community of the West Coast it is one of the two biggest get togethers of the year. At a small lake about a half an hour north west of California’s states Capital is a great gem of a lake (Reservoir) that you would think was made just for hot rod drag boating.

Over 100 hundred boats and more than 400 people gathered at this favored West Coast lake for hot boaters known as Camp Far West. Since this lake is a reservoir, this time of year the water level is very low. Even with low water the lake does provides a near perfect drag strip of water and the shore line that is a near perfect arena like viewing area for all spectators in attendance.

This is a grass roots run what ya brung heaven. One after another boats line up to square off against each other in what varies from a 1/8 blip to what some would call hauling the mail out the back door type of runs. Participates range from 100 plus mph hot rod outboards, tunnel hull jets, blown flats, hydros, dolly trailer alcohol hydros, and to top the day off you can find a twin turbo 25 Eliminator daytona showing what its made of.

Beyond the on water action is a non organized show and shine type event that was a great opportunity for the spectators to get up close and share stories and ideas about the boats. We were fortunate to be able to make it to the event and have take tons of pictures for your enjoyment.

One thing for sure is no matter what you label this event, grass roots hot boating, performance boating, or just plain powerboating. These great boating get togethers show powerboating of all types is still thriving and many great people are participating in an incredibly exciting lifestyle!

THE ULTIMATE WATERFRONT HOME TO OWN

If you have always wanted to live on the water in beautiful south Florida the opportunity is now. A performance boater’s dream house is now available. This Covered State-of-the-Art Boat lift designed for high performance power boat. Owner John Ben Ali Haggin, famous for the 13 time World Champion Miss Geico race team, has designed and built one of the best boat lifts ever conceived for a serious power boater. Three more lifts complement this for another large boat and jet skis.

The house and garden are an Entertainers Dream, Fully Furnished, a Unique Double Intracoastal Lot with .82 acres and 171 ft. on IC. 70 ft pool, Impact Glass Windows, 40″ Sq Glass Tiles, 1000 Sf Pavilion with Restaurant Style Glass Bar. Expansive and Secluded Tropical Garden with Large Koi Pond, New Zero Edge Pool and Spa complete w/ Laminar Water Jets w/ Custom LED lighting, $2M 2012 Retro-Fit designed by Randall Stofft. Oceanfront Clubhouse, Walled and Gate community in Sea Ranch Lakes, Florida.

John is moving on and now you have a chance to own the home of the man who created the longest lasting Offshore Powerboat race team in history. We need you to buy this home so the local PowerBoatNation Raft Up group has a place to crash on the weekends

A message from Mr John Woodruff

To all our friends,

We at the Pirates of Lanier Poker Run wish you All the Best Wishes for a prosperous 2014.

Our website Lanier Partners of North Georgia is up and ready for registration and our room block is in place at Legacy Lodge at Lake Lanier Islands. The dock reservation system will be coming shortly and we’ll keep you informed. We look forward to seeing you again and making a difference for Georgia’s kids with cancer.

We will have a booth at the Atlanta Boat Show, January 9-12, at the Georgia World Congress Center, so come on down. You’ll be able to sign up and enter a chance at some fun giveaways!

Sent from John Woodruff

You can be sure PowerBoatNation will be back to Lake Lanier to support and PARTICIPATE in this great event.

The Human performance Equation:

It is very easy….Bad decision or good decision. Speed or no Speed the human makes the difference

I won’t rehash the bad of 2013, but I will say how much I hope and look forward to a clean run for 2014 and beyond. Safety is something I think is often overstated and misunderstood and I am beginning to hate the word almost as much as I hate synergistic.

Why would “Captain Safety” as I have been both lovingly and unloving referred to HATE the word SAFETY??? Because like synergy it all too often becomes only a word that has no stated performance objectives and lacks a measure of effectiveness when used without a plan or commitment to a safe culture or behavior.

I am not going to bore you with how to develop a layered safety plan with oversight limits , assessments, and audits to verify substantial compliance. All I will say is the human has an opportunity and choice to make good decisions and bad decisions, and it is our responsibility to demonstrate good decision making. The demonstration of safe practices brings the reward of better safety in this segment of powerboating.

This means dealers, manufacturers, and high visibility industry leaders do just that, they DEMONSTRATE LEADERSHIP; wear LifeLines and Lanyards when running with customers and run the boats in a proper manner. Event organizers should set up properly structured events with good start procedures and include measures to prevent incident rather than overload response protocols, almost like they know something bad will occur so they make sure plenty of rescue assets are onhand.

Regardless of the specific circumstances situations will present that place you as the boat driver in bad place. The choices you make will always make the difference and before you make the choice you must be able to observe and recognize all around you to maintain enough situational awareness to make the best decision for the circustomaces of what is before you.

Let us have a incredible 2014
Thanks for reading

Brad

Joey Gratton Remembered

Again we made the trek to Sarasota for our now traditional New Year’s Celebration of life lived and life to live.

Beginning with the party, the whole crew at Twisted Metal Racing pulled out all the stops for an eventful New Years Eve Party at Billy Glueck’s man cave/compound. Billy, Brett and their entire crew of friends were great and generous hosts who left all of us with nothing to want. This party continues to grow year to year and let’s just say the entertainment value was priceless.

Just before noon on New Year’s Day just over 60 boats prepared to run together. Race Boats, performance pleasure boats, center consoles, runabouts, and a LOT of High Performance Outboards ran with the Memory of Joey with them on the water to the Tarpon Pointe.

The run to Tarpon Pointe Grille may not be long but it’s perfect for New Years day and watching the transformation from a quiet bar with empty seats to an immediate party on the dock was fun to watch. We were privileged and thankful to again have to opportunity to Join Priscilla, Blake, and Brock in the celebration of Joeys life and remembering what he meant to so many.

The Joey Gratton Education Foundation could use your contribution. I can’t think of a better way to step over the threshold of a new year than spend time with family and our great Powerboating friends who all find their way to Sarasota.

Ryan Beckly..…I can see in my mind when I close my eyes the warm genuine smile of Joey looking at you, cocking his head just so slightly, hugging you at the same time saying to You Ryan “My Man!”. THANK YOU for all you do and I know your wife, family, and host of friends all contribute and work so hard to make this fun and safe for the rest of us.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Brad

If you’re looking for a New Year’s Resolution that is easy to keep, vow to have your favorite propeller fit and at its best for the 2014 boating season with BBLADES Winter Tune-Up Special.

For the months of January and February, BBLADES will inspect and repair your aluminum or stainless steel wheel, perform lab finishing to customize the performance of your prop, or reshape any new propeller purchased for just $80 an hour for stainless steel and $60 an hour for aluminum. Remember, normal use of a prop can produce dings, dents and cracks you aren’t even aware of until they affect the performance of your boat.

Take advantage of the slower winter months and have propeller work done while your boating buddies are just dreaming about their next run. Don’t be forced to wait in line when spring rolls around, get your propeller work done now, and for a special price!

No matter who manufactured your propeller, BBLADES can perform whatever work you require. If you need to replace a prop, we offer competitive pricing on props from Mercury, Hering, Hydromotive, Acme, Stiletto and Turbo, not to mention our own line of BBLADES propellers.

Not sure what prop is best for your boat? BBLADES offers the absolute best propeller testing program out there. Outboard or sterndrive, BBLADES has demo props available to test for a small fee; BBLADES is the ONLY place you will find a Six-drive-style prop test program—anywhere.

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You can learn more about the prop demo program and all of the service and products offered by BBLADES at www.bblades.com, or by giving a call to 920-295-4435. We love to talk props!

There has been a lot of discussion lately on the forums on which boat is the best boat to buy. Sure everyone has their own personal favorites but when you take all the factors and weigh them together, what is the absolute best boat to buy?

Rule #1 A boat is a compromise and dont forget a boat is a compromise.

No matter what a single boat won’t do it all. Cabins on performance boats? Do you need one, and what are the performance sacrifices. Do I really care if a full staggered, inboard rotation boat is not easy and conventional around the docks? Nope, not at all, it was purchased for open water performance not its close quarters maneuvering characteristics.

I get the question all the time. I am fortunate because of the Boat School and my other activities, I do get to drive many different boats and as a result I do know what is better from a measurable criteria rather than opinions and judgements made from the floor of a showroom or boatshow.

So how can I answer the question….. Simple, I answer the question with questions. The absolute best boat for you to buy is to find the boat that is right for you. To find that boat you start by answering some questions.

1. Where do you go boating? What are the prevailing weather conditions, seas, wind, and general environment.

2. What is your boating lifestyle? Will you boat with one friend or friends? Spouse or maybe young children?

3. Performance? Is top speed really the highest determining factor or is solid performance and better reliability?

4. Then the big question….Money… What is the budget and remember Rule #2
When it comes to buying a performance boat and the money it takes, the purchase is the easy part. The follow on care and maintenance, otherwise known as the cost of ownership is the hard part. You have to plan and budget for the care and feeding of the boat because if you don’t you will end up hating the boat for what it costs to keep.

5. Aesthetics? We are human and you have to be drawn to how the boat looks, but remember form does not alway meet function. My first car was a 1970 Camaro SS, it had primer spots and wasn’t the best looking car in its day, but it was fast and ran really good. While some of the other kids could afford nice paint, all I wanted to do was beat them on the street.

The absolute best boat to buy is the boat that will best facilitate your boating lifestyle and allow you to go boating. So unless you can afford a Lürssen with a deck full of various watercraft; the best boat for you to buy is out there, and the best person to figure out what boat that will be is YOU!

REWIND PBN 2013 The year in review:

Years end always brings reflection, measure, where we have been, and that usually leads to where you are going. Considering myself to always be looking forward with the overly optimistic full cup runneth over outlook, looking back is something I seldom do. But at times I do recognize our future is guided and influenced by the past and the reflections of where we have been can accelerate where we going and where we need to be.

This last year at Powerboat Nation was our first full year and when I remove my personal tendency to look only at the things needing improvement and objectively inventory what we have accomplished it is pretty remarkable. Besides our event participation highlights which are a big part of what we do the acceptance and desire and enthusiasm from the literally thousands of new viewers and members really sent the message back to us of just how much you all have enjoyed this journey with us.

We left the Key West Poker Run in 2012 and ran right into the Miami Boat Show and Miami Boat Show Poker Run of 2013. We know that if you missed our South Beach Party you may as well missed the boat show. Things ran hard and we were able to attend a few more runs and with the exception of the shuttering tragedy at Lake Cumberland, we went boating, had fun, made new friends, ruffled some feathers and kept going.

For me personally, the biggest value of looking back is to remember why I wanted to take on this new chapter in my life. I reflected back to the boating road trip Cherie and I took in July of 2012 when we trailered the Cigarette to Lake Coeur D’Alene, in Northern Idaho for the 4th of July. This was where I grew up boating and wanted to go on a trailer boating trip across North America to show what could be done. I felt something was missing from the connection we used to have between the world of the web and the world of real life. I have reposted parts of this trip in forums to bring the idea back to life and encourage others to step out and just go powerboating. Hopefully that vision is felt and brings some resonance to you the readers, members, and powerboaters.

As we step into 2014 know this one truth, Powerboat Nation is for you it will become as strong and fulfilling as you want it to be for you. You can be assured we are going nowhere but forward and I will fill this thing with as much fuel as I can myself to keep us under acceleration. We all believe our commitments are more lofty than anyone or anything else. We will have more features, attend more events, and bring you more news about the industry than maybe you can consume. The companies that advertise and support our brand also have some more exciting things to bring that will again and again make PowerBoatNation one of your favorite online visits.

BTW, If you had a good time at last years Miami Boat Show PBN Party or you felt like you missed something. This year’s 2014 party is really going to leave a mark!

This last weekend the time between Christmas and New Years was not idly spent for the members of the Fort Myers Offshore Club. Club President Bob Barnhart reported to us that 40 boats with about 150 members ran the 45 mile stretch from Sanibel to Marco Island where they all gathered at CJ’s on the Bay.

Bob told us this was the first year they have had the run on this weekend and it is now known as the Holiday run. Previously the club held their run on New Year’s Day and in a harmonious effort to not conflict with the Joey Gratton Memorial run they moved the date up and as a result had a record number of participants.

Many of the fleet of 40 was center consoles and the club welcomed new members and now has a record 72 active boaters in the membership. The Fort Myers Offshore Club is a registered 501 (c) 3 not for profit that originated as a small group of enthusiasts in 2005. In 2007 following a fatal boating accident the membership raised over $30,000.00 to benefit a young girl who survived the crash. Following the success of this effort they officially established themselves as a non for profit in 2008 and have since raised thousands of dollars providing educational scholarships and support.

The events big winner was Josh Brousseau from Ontario, who won the $830 dollar split with the other half going to the charity fund. While this event was not an official fundraiser for the club they did raise a few thousand dollars from the registration fees and from donations. All of these funds will go to the club’s scholarship fund.

The next club event will be the first weekend of February in Sarasota where they will meet up with Ryan Beckley’s group and run around to Tarpon Point.

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