Roar at the Shore: Is 'Big Time' Offshore Racing back in Atlantic City ?

Story by Tony Esposito

The three-day Atlantic City Festival of Speed culminated with exciting, lead-swapping, air-grabbing offshore boat racing last Sunday, but the real story isn't so much the race results as it is the impact the weekend of high-speed hardware may have had on the future of the sport through a first-rate example of how cities and race promoters working together can deliver high-quality, high-performance entertainment and a boost to the local economy.

130623A 230 Sunday's offshore racing action was wild during the first Atlantic City race in decades. All photos courtesy/copyright Tim Sharkey/Sharkey Images.

Enter the New Jersey Performance Powerboat Club, the Offshore Powerboat Association and the New Jersey Offshore Powerboat Racing Association. The three groups all remember local offshore racing in the late 1980s and early 1990s when  Read More ...