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Archive for the ‘Powerboat’ Category
On the sun-splashed Florida peninsula, the US foreclosure crisis is sinking lavish lifestyles on land and at sea and luxury yacht owners are increasingly finding themselves high and dry.
The listing for a recent attractive property swallowed up by the crisis appeared to be a sea-front condominium: two bedroom/two bath, outdoor grill, water views, elegant and spacious. Satellite television and temperature-controlled wine cabinet included.
But it was a 60-foot (18.3-meter) yacht, docked amid a crush of other luxury marine toys at a Fort Lauderdale boat yard……Â Details
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It may be the closest thing to NASCAR that Lake Elsinore has ever seen.
“This area is a hotbed of motorsport activities,” said Mike Finnegan, a member of the National Jet Boat Racing Club’s board. “These boats are … the closest thing to muscle cars.”
It will be the second time the Club, a nonprofit organization, holds one of its annual races at Lake Elsinore, he said. The drag boat races will be held Saturday and Sunday.
Although their events are typically held in Bakersfield, this year someone on the board recalled how successful the 1998 Lake Elsinore event was, Finnegan said…. Details
Issaquah native is 2008 Â hydro racer Rookie of the Year
When he hits a straightaway at 180 miles per hour at the Sea Fair Chevrolet Cup on Lake Washington, unlimited hydroplane racer Kip Brown describes his boat as a nimble machine.
Amid the chaos of cutting through three- to four-foot-high waves behind the outwash of competitors’ rooster tails and with buoys racing by, he said he doesn’t experience the true power and agility of his 30-foot, 3,000 horsepower behemoth until he actually has to … …Details