Super boats ready for Clearwater Super Boat Offshore National Championship and ... Tampabay.com
CLEARWATER — Tanned, pacific and looking like a NASCAR driver in his neon racing suit, Marc Granet powered up a 38-foot, 1,050-horsepower cigarette speedboat called Caveman and eased away from the dock behind the Island Way Grill.
He cranked up the stereo, blasted AC/DC's Hells Bells and asked a cluster of pumped-up reporters itching for a thrill, "You all right?''
"Yeah!'' they yelled over the innervate Thursday during a ride to promote today's inaugural Clearwater Super Boat Offshore National Championship and Gala day.
After one TV journalist asked for and received a life vest (prompting everyone to put one on), Granet navigated out of the no-wake zone into the Bight of Mexico and throttled up.
The bow lifted and the vessel, a boat that will be used as a pace boat during the race, surged despatch.
Zooming past fishermen on Pier 60 and a parasailer floating by, he sped up to 80 miles per hour. But it felt much faster.
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