Aucklander Sam Harvey has won a world title in the International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA) world finals in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Riding a Sea-Doo® personal watercraft (PWC), Harvey took out the Pro Runabout Open. The Howick-based marine retailer has been competing at the prestigious IJSBA world finals every year for the past nine years, so to win on his tenth attempt was particularly satisfying for the New Zealander.
Harvey says the competition is especially intense in his class.
‘More than 50 competitors from around the world … Details
The name MacClugage followed by the title “World Champion†is common occurrence at the International Jet Sports Boating Association Personal Watercraft World Finals.
But this year it wasn’t Big Mac taking the title, it was his wife.
Lake Havasu City’s Rachel MacClugage won her first world championship thanks to a second place finish in the second moto of Pro-Am Women Ski Sunday in the final day of racing at Crazy Horse Beach… Details
Racing returned to Crazy Horse Beach Saturday with nine world champions crowned in 11 racing classes.
The Pro-Am and Expert class final motos were run Saturday morning at the International Jet Sports Boating Association Personal Watercraft World Finals, when racing was suspended Friday following the crash and death of Team Serbia’s Cesare Vismara, 36, of Italy. Vismara was posthumously named the 2009 IJSBA World Champion in the Amateur Runabout Open class. And IJSBA Executive Director Scott Frazier announced that all entry fees in the Amateur Runabout Open class are being donated to Vismara’s family… Details
Lake Havusu City is the center of the personal watercraft-racing world during the 28th annual quakysense International Jet Sports Boating Association World Finals.
Featuring the top personal watercraft racers from around the world, the 2009 quakysense IJSBA World Finals, presented by Monster Energy, is on Lake Havasu through Sunday.
The race site for the 11th consecutive year is …Â Details