The Mouawad Offshore Powerboat Racing Team with world champions Omar Danial and Gary Ballough at the Dubai Grand Prix for the X-CAT World Series 2012. The team, sponsored by Mouawad Geneve, races with the Mouawad Grande Ellipse Sport watches — featuring robust, almost indestructible titanium cases in smart, sporty designs offered in a variety of dials, cases, colours and decors.
Most everyone who spends time on the water has seen them at one time or another, those ear splitting, brightly colored powerboats that skip across the water at break neck speeds. They can be the most dangerous and powerful racing machines known to man in large part due to the speeds they can attain, the highly volatile fuel needed to power the craft and the unique design and balance of the hulls built to withstand ever changing elements of wind and water. A finely tuned balance needs to be maintained to max out speed to the point of possible wipeout.
The third Outpeformer mini doc follows Miss GEICO’s boat pilot, Marc Granet, to chronicle what it takes to command a championship winning team and drive a boat capable of speeds in excess of 210 miles per hour, over open ocean and choppy waterways.
Photographer Robert Brown first caught my attention in the late 1990s during a long bus ride on the way to a Sea-Doo media event outside of Montreal, Canada. It was a solid two-hour bus ride from the airport to a quaint little lakeside resort in the middle of Canadian nowhere, the bus was well-stocked with libations and Brown was holding court and carrying on with the various magazine editors on board in his usual boisterous and flat-out hilarious style.
By the time we reached our destination, we were friends.
By the time I had a chance to look at some of his personal watercraft images during the next couple of days, I knew I had to  … Pictures and more
When a big-wave surfer falls on a big-wave, he rarely penetrates the water immediately. First, like a water-skier, he’s going too fast so he bounces off the surface. Second, he’s wearing a slick and buoyant wetsuit, a life vest and maybe even, if he’s on the cutting edge of the sport, an integrated automatic buoyancy device that will inflate and drag him up from the depths he’ll eventually get pounded to.
So here’s what usually happens: He skips down the face of the wave on his head, back, stomach or whatever part of his body makes first contact with the water and ends up at the bottom of wave. And that’s where the real fun begins  … Pictures and more