Written by Tony Esposito for http://speedonthewater.com

When your weekend-long boating event is being threatened with rain, you look for silver linings in every cloud. Fortunately for the organizers of and participants in yesterday’s Atlantic City Powerboat Rally, no one had to look that hard. The weather cleared long enough for the 70-mile rally—renamed this year from its former Atlantic City Poker Run handle—to happen under cloud-dotted skies.

New Jersey Performance Powerboat Club president Dave Patnaude explained the thinking behind the event’s name change.

“The words ‘poker run’ have a connotation of big boats,” Patnaude said. “Calling it a rally and changing the format opens the event to more boaters."

Instead of the traditional card stops of a poker run, the New Jersey event had predetermined rally points where the fleet would regroup and re-launch. The event attracted 30 boats, from.......  Read more

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