Posts Tagged ‘offshore races’

More Power Boats!

Here are a few more photos from the power boat races. We wandered around on Duval Saturday night after the races to take in the up-close-and-personal experience with the boats, and then caught the final race on Sunday. Once again, a street festival on Duval street.. always so much fun.. lots of people, food, and of course beers.

The boats were so loud while they were racing, I could hear them from my front porch and I could smell the nitro from their exhaust wafting on the breeze blowing across the island.. good times!

The Miss Geico boat won the race, and no surprise.. it was very impressive – it’s turbine powered instead of piston-engine powered. It sounded like a jet airplane when it went by, quieter than the other boats, but quite obviously faster.. it was like watching something out of a batman movie.. well except it was bright green! It shot by so fast on the water that I had a hard time snapping a photo before it was out of the frame! The photo up there is the victory pass, even at idle it sounded like a jet.. I get chills just thinking about it now.. it was very cool.

Still, as much as I enjoyed the Miss Geico boat, I think my favorite was the Cintron boat, it was LOUD and painted a very sober grey. Unfortunately I think it must have broken down at some point, because it wasn’t in the race on Sunday. When we saw it on the street Saturday night, I understood why it was so loud.. it had two 1500 HP blown V8 engines in it.. you can see the photos down the page a bit.. makes miss my gearhead days from high school!

MorePowerBoats (12 photos)
13 November 2009

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Off Shore Powerboat Racing World Championship

We went down to Fort Zachary Taylor waterfront to catch the last race of the preliminaries on Wednesday. What fun! I’ve never been a big power boat enthusiast, but when you’re sitting right there on the water and the boats are roaring by at close to 200 MPH, one can’t help but be impressed. It’s almost like going to a monster truck rally.. it’s so loud it triggers some primal instinct to stand up and yell!

The next races are running this Friday and Saturday, and I can definitely say that I’ll be going back for some more of that!

We’d seen the boat parade last Sunday down Duval street, and this friday evening there will be another event on Duval where you can go and wander around and see the boats close up.. there really is rarely a dull moment here in Key West, there’s always something going on!

I’ll post some more photos next week.

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