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There is something deranged, masochistic and undeniably beautiful about the small group of international offshore racers who flock to the 210-mile Cowes-Torquay-Cowes endurance race off the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom each year in late August, as they have for the past 63 years. They know they are almost surely in for the open-ocean beat-down of their lives, the kind that left owner/throttleman Rob Lockyer of the Class 120 Good Boy Vodka team unable to sit down and driver Alex Pratt unable to stand up last Saturday after the Cowes-Torquay leg, which they won.

The Laa Laa team bested a strong field to claim first placed in the 63rd annual Cowes-Torquay-Cowes offshore endurance race. All action photos courtesy/copyright Nigel M. Cole. Click here to view the photographer’s complete Flickr gallery from the event.

Asked how offshore endurance racing off the Isle of Wight compares to being paid to fall off horses as an equestrian stuntman—once Lockyer’s primary means of putting food on the table—he laughed. Clearly, he didn’t expect the question.

“Oh, someone told you about that,” he said with a big grin, then paused to consider his answer.

“It all hurts just as much,” he said, then laughed again.

Coming from a man still recovering from a long round of chemotherapy, that means something.

“For me, competing in Cowes-Torquay-Cowes is a dream come true,” Lockyer continued. “I used to come here a kid. We used to come across in a skiff when we were 15 or 16 years old. I never dreamed back then I’d be able to do it.”

Likewise, without the endless grit and good cheer and occasional pain-med that has made him a seven-time Cowes-Torquay-Cowes champion, Miles Jennings of the Silverline team wouldn’t have made it back with a manic grin on his face, a glass of champagne in his hand and a second-place result in the books.

“It’s all about the camaraderie,” he said.

For the record, no one is getting rich from the British Offshore Powerboat Racing Club-produced event rebranded Cowes Powerboat Week presented by Experience Kissimmee this year. The trophies are very fancy, but even the nicest of them costs a lot less than one CNC propeller.

A “flock” also is a long stretch when it comes to describing participation in the event. A whopping 20 teams, which Miles’ Silverline teammate Drew Langdon dubbed an “average turnout” then quickly added “but about half of them will never come back” showed up to compete in open-ocean conditions that ranged from awful to miserable.

“It’s the best race in the world,” Langdon, a five-time Cowes-Torquay-Cowes champion explained. “It’s like a drug.”

During the traditional black-tie dinner at the 209-year-old Royal Yacht Squadron yacht club the night before the race, Pratt, the founder of Good Boy Vodka, nudged a reporter sitting next to him. Pratt swiveled his head as if to say, “Can you believe all this?”

The reporter looked around the room of mostly dedicated gin drinkers, leaned in and whispered, “You’re not in this for the marketing, are you?”

“No,” he whispered back. “I just want to win the thing.”

So who won the thing?

First, it’s worth understanding that the entire weekend consists of three races. On Saturday, there is the 210-miles Cowes-Torquay-Cowes headliner for the larger Class 120, 100, 80 and 60 raceboats and the shorter 105-mile Cowes-Poole-Cowes race for the smaller Class 75, 65 and boats. Those contests run concurrently.

Sunday’s 64-mile Round The Island event is for gluttons for additional punishment in all classes. Just in case they didn’t get their fill in one of the Saturday races, they can take a fresh beating the following morning.

Another essential note? There is a mandatory one-hour stop between the Cowes-Torquay and Torquay-Cowes segment of the main event. It is ostensibly a “fuel stop,” but it is at least as much a human-body recovery and light repair stop. You could call it a mercy stop and you wouldn’t be wrong.

Because all teams needed a break this time around. Seas were in the 1- to-3-meter range. (Multiply by three, my fellow American readers, just in case it’s been a minute since you’ve dabbled in the metric system.) Sustained winds were in the 15-knot range. Gusts topped 20 knots.

So while the Good Boy Vodka team of Lockyer and Pratt and crewmembers Tim Linden and Shane Franks won the Cowes-Torquay leg of the contest, a broken driveshaft knocked the team out of the return leg shortly after it started. They ended up finishing fifth overall.

As in all offshore racing, initial results are provisional. But when the mist finally settled with the apparent first-place finisher disqualified for a rules violation, the Class 120 Laa Laa team of Dean Stoneman, Harry Thomas and Myles Thompson took top honors in the 42-foot, 1,600-hp Fountain Powerboats V-bottom with an average speed of 72.07 mph on the 210-mile course. The Class 120 Silverline team of Langdon and Miles captured second place in their 43-foot Outerlimits. (Miles spent much of Saturday night in the hospital getting X-rays on his back.)

Running a Buzzi rigid inflatable boat, the Class 100 Pippa team of Daniel Smith and Jack Weller finished third overall. Not only was their 56.93-mph average enough to put to them on the podium, it earned them the distinction of first-place overall in their class.

Likewise, Emma Lockyer - the oldest daughter of Rob and Christine Lockyer—and Ben Daffin of Team 25 Patriot Marine finished third overall in Cowes-Poole-Cowes but were the first Class 55 outfit across the finish line of that contest.

For the record, the Class 75 Uno Embassy team of Gordon McMath, Phil Morris, Nigel Hopcroft and Chris Wright finished first and the Class 65 Thunderstreak team of Cowes legend Hugo Peel—in what he announced would be his final contest—Richard Jessel and Adrian DeFerranti finished second in Peel’s 1963 model-year Bertram V-bottom.

But results—and you can read all of them including those from Sunday’s Round The Island contest all by clicking here—are simply the metrics of success. What makes Cowes-Torquay-Cowes the world’s greatest offshore race goes beyond its storied history. It’s more than the canons of the opulent Royal Yacht Squadron, which fired as they have now for 63 years to start the race.

It’s more than rooming for the weekend in a 200-year-old, three-story crew-house with Stu and Jackie Jones of the Florida Powerboat Club, Simon Williams and his wife, Dee, or Cortez Cove Marina, Good Boy Vodka team member Tim Linden and a Croatian helicopter pilot named Andreas.

And it’s more than the narrow, pub-and-restaurant-filled streets of Cowes itself, an archetypal British seaside town that is impossible not to love.

The essence of Cowes-Torquay-Cowes is the collective soul of dreamers who want nothing more than to point their boats to the horizon, hammer the throttles and never look back. It is about the likes of assistant event director Christian Toll.

A multi-time participant in the event, Toll restored a famous 1971 Cigarette Racing Team V-bottom dubbed Kiekhaefer Aeromarine III. He worked alongside his crew to the 36-footer ready until the moment they hauled it to the race. They finished both legs of the contest, but not within the allotted time period.

But from the expression on Toll’s face after the Saturday awards ceremony, you’d have thought he’d won. He beamed.

“It was amazing, even though we didn’t quite make it in time,” he said. “We pushed to get the boat finished in time for the race and it mostly met our expectations.

“Absolutely, we’ll be back,” he added. “Absolutely.”

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It’s a powerboat racing website that has covered circuit racing, offshore racing and PWC since 2016. Maintained by The Race Factory based in Norway who have specialists in event planning and promotion, social media, graphic design, and photography. We are currently working on our vision and believe that we can and will make a different in powerboating. We will dedicate our time to produce accurate factual stories and to promote the sport to a wider global audience.

Husband and wife Brett and Lori Luhrmann founded Luhrmann Powersports International (LPI) in 2015. This year, they are simultaneously managing teams in three of the world’s toughest categories of powerboat racing, based in Australia and travelling the world for international championships in other categories.

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Lori and Brett’s LPI achievements are celebrated in the cover story of Nautilus Marine Lifestyle Magazine’s latest edition – a widely read publication.

The article details the newest and biggest addition to LPI’s Team Australia powerboat fleet: a 42-foot catamaran with 1500 horsepower, aptly nicknamed BIG BLUE ROO.

This boat made its debut at the Australian Offshore Superboat Championships in QLD, July 2017. After leading round 1 in Mackay, a disaster struck in round 2 in Bowen.

Within 500m of the finish line on the final lap the portside engine caught fire! Driver Brett and Throttleman Karl Wall managed to stay cool in this intensely hot situation, activating fire suppression systems in the engine and fuel shut-offs that prevented an inevitable explosion.

Escaping the smoke-engulfed cockpit, they helped extinguish the flames.

A Go-Pro camera mounted on the boat captured the frightening ordeal. This footage was shared online by Motorsports TV and has had over 15,000 views!

Both Brett and Karl were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning.

They were eventually cleared by the Doctor but the engine of the beautiful BIG BLUE ROO was burnt out!

Despite this setback, they are now gearing up for Round 3 of the Championships in Coffs Harbour – Brett and Lori’s old hometown.

With the BIG BLUE ROO’s repairs well underway, the boat will be ready to compete in the event on 27 August 2017!

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, LPI is determined to come back stronger than ever!

It’s not the first time they have faced adversity. Soon after the establishment of LPI in 2015, Lori was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. With treatments now completed, Lori and Brett have raised more than $20,000 for breast cancer in the past 18 months.

Brett was also the champion fundraiser and dancer in the Cancer Council’s 2017 Stars of the Beaches gala, raising over $15,000 and performing a routine based on his brother Baz Luhrmann’s films.

From burning the floors for a worthy cause to escaping death’s fiery claws – Brett is one half of a powerboating power couple on fire!

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