Would you like to experience an adventure and journey overseas? If so you’re in luck because Fast Lane Travel, a new FPC sponsor that specializes in Porsche driving tours, provides the complete experience with exclusive trips overseas with incredible accommodations and resorts! This September, FPC President, Stu Jones, and his wife, Jackie, celebrated their 10th year…
The content submission deadline for the latest edition of Powerboating in Paradise Magazine is quickly approaching! Take advantage of this great opportunity to sponsor and advertise with premier Florida Powerboat Club, today! Our publication produces 15,000+ copies to our FPC members, sponsors, affiliates, marine trade, Florida marinas state-wide, and nationwide poker run events. To advertise…
Join the fun with the Florida Powerboat Club in KEY WEST! November is notoriously Key West month in the powerboating world. The Florida Powerboat Club will be venturing to Key West for our annual Key West Offshore Poker Run, November 10th–16th! Click here for more information. Check out the video above for a glimpse of…
Check out this great feature from Offshore Only, showcasing our own Stu Jones’ Poker Run Road Trip! Since the early 1990s, Stu Jones of the Florida Powerboat Club has spent a lot of time organizing poker runs and building his business. That means mapping courses, securing permits, setting up hotels and dockage, hiring photo/video helicopters…
Check out this stellar review from Speed on the Water Magazine, covering the Emerald Coast Poker Run! Plagued by sketchy weather in recent years, the Emerald Coast Poker Run—a collaborative effort between the Florida Powerboat Club and the Emerald Coast Foundation—saw a 150-plus-boat turnout under mostly blue skies last weekend in Destin, Fla. FPC President…
The largest summer poker run in the nation has come and gone, as the 23rd Annual Emerald Coast Poker Run took place over the weekend.
Earlier this week, SEASON 15 of Powerboating in Paradise TV launched with the March 3rd telecast of the Key West Poker Run 2014, staged this past November, with over 170 powerboat teams participating. The new TV format delivers fewer episodes but much longer runs, with as many as 12-14 telecasts per episode running through the…
The Januray Winter Poker Run returned to the FPC calendar after a three year absence, and just over 20 FPC poker run teams took part in the christening of the all-new Faro Blanco Resort & Yacht Club. The property features a new Hyatt Place, Lighthouse Grille Restaurant and a spacious marina that can easily accommodate…
It might have been the perfect work-play vacation, as Stu & Jackie Jones took their two sons Tyler and Max to Marathon at the start of the Holiday season, to enjoy a four-day boating adventure. One day after public schools closed on December 18th, the Jones family was loaded in the family RV and towing…
While South Florida appears to be well-suited to serve the needs of performance boaters, these performance-related services are not always easy to find as one travels further north beyond Palm Beach County. Offshore Performance Marine fills that geographic void perfectly, with a full-line of marine services, as well as secure storage, transportation and boat positioning…
Check out the video above of sizzling moments from the FPC Key West Offshore Poker Run 2014 Sizzle Reel! From Miami to Key West, High-Performance Boats, Motorcycles, Planes, and cars joined in on the FPC Key West Offshore Poker Run 2014 Sizzle Reel!
The weather held with warm temperatures and sunny skies as over 800 poker runners from across the United States, Canada and Europe enjoyed a spectacular 22nd Annual Mercury Racing sponsored Key West Poker Run. Only a handful of boaters leaving Miami on the Wednesday morning departure experienced a light sprinkle of rain, but after the…
After a violent crash on a new 44 Outerlimits catamaran at the annual LOTO Shootout last Saturday, Canadian powerboater Joel Begin escaped with relatively minor injuries, while builder and throttleman Mike Fiore was airlifted with serious life-threatening injuries to a trauma unit in a Missouri hospital. Just three days later, after a surgery complication, the…
At a mature 22 years of age, the Emerald Coast Poker Run delivered what could be summed up as the perfect Summer Season ender for about 1,000 attendees! In addition to the big colorful high-performance cats and v-bottoms that arrive from more than twenty states, an all-new local class was created to host smaller runabouts,…
Don’t miss this exciting history-making motorsports event NEVER before staged anywhere on the planet! Participants from all over the United States and beyond will enjoy up to five days of motoring, boating and flying fun in tropical paradise! This entire event will be filmed by a crew of professional videographers from helicopters, truck mounted cameras…
The Miami Boat Show Poker Run heads to Islamorada today! This four day poker run event is designed for sport cruising and high-performance boaters alike. Performance manufacturers and dealers participate as featured sponsors, giving attendees the opportunity to see the latest offerings in the world of offshore powerboating at our Poker Run Village. A two-day…
I would like to begin by thanking our hundreds of participants from all over the United States, Canada, Europe and South America, for joining us for he 21st year of our signature poker run event from Miami to Key West. To understand what a massive undertaking this is, one must consider the magnitude of the…
There was a degree of apprehension on the docks at SeaIsle Marina as poker run teams from around the nation arrived for the dockside breakfast and captains briefing. With concerns about the wind and possible waves for the final leg into Key West….many were considering their options. But with a closer look at the weather…
FLORIDA POWERBOAT CLUB members attending the Key West Poker Run may be a little anxious about the 20 mph winds on Tuesday, as the boats gather at SeaIsle Marina in Miami to stage for the Wednesday departure. But STU JONES, FPC president and event coordinator assures participants that while it is natural to have these…
It was a whirlwind tour to say the least, and it reminded me of the days long ago, when I would load up the FPC trailer with the Harley, club magazines and poker run videos, to tour around many states for weeks at a time, visiting our club members attending poker runs in their homebased…
With clear skies, warm temperatures and great boating conditions along the scenic St. Johns River, Jacksonville Poker Run participants really couldn’t have had it any better. Earlybirds were treated to a Friday Fun Run, which traveled through the Port of Jacksonville to Nippers, a popular waterfront restaurant in Jacksonville Beach, with a Caribbean-inspired menu and…
FROM: STU JONES, President- Florida Powerboat Club Dated: May 24.2013 We are most pleased to announce to our FPC members, TV viewers, marine trade and tourism partners, that Powerboating in Paradise TV is back on the air with another exciting series of half hour TV episodes, produced in full HD, and featuring all the highlights…
Although the April showers appeared to be a threat to staging the Tampa Bay Poker Run in the days leading up the St.Petersburg based event, the weather took an 11th hour turn for the better and by Saturday morning, the forecast was for light winds and no rain! The morning sun glistened over the calm…
THURSDAY APRIL 4TH, 2013 From Stu Jones: Florida Powerboat Club President. It is with great pain and utter sorrow, that I bring this tragic news to our extended Florida Powerboat Club family. Helicopter owner-pilot Mark Palmieri lost his life late Wednesday in a horrific crash of his Robinson R44, one of four helicopters owned by…
Since Spring of 2010, three years had passed since FPC had staged a poker run event in the Fort Myers Beach/Cape Coral area, and it was a long-awaited return to this beautiful part of the Sunshine State. Abundant cruising options in scenic protected waters has always made this area an ideal destination for all boaters,…
