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Behind the build.

One of the greatest perks of this job, and there are many, is the access we’re granted to go behind the scenes with different boatbuilders and manufacturers. It’s always telling to see how someone reacts when I ask: “Can we set up a date to come out to your factory and see how your boats/components are made?” Most of the major builders you regularly find within these pages build a product they’re proud of and can’t wait to show off. Pursuit comes to mind; they invited me with open arms to their Ft. Pierce facility and allowed me to see every inch of their build process. It was a fascinating blend of manual labor combined with cutting-edge robotics. There have been numerous others however, that always seem to squirm out of showing…

The Comeback Kid

Maybe next time,” was a common phrase 20-year-old third baseman Parker Byrd would use when a teammate would invite him and some of the other players to his family’s river house in Bath, North Carolina for a day on the water. Byrd finally agreed to dip his toes the weekend of July 22, 2022, along with a few teammates and his girlfriend at the time. Friday on the water went off without a hitch and they’d planned on heading back to their East Carolina University campus the next morning. “I was supposed to take one of my teammates, Miles, back to Greenville,” Byrd says. “He was supposed to help an elderly couple move some furniture.” But when a text dismissed Miles’ service, the boys decided a second day on the water…

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When Chief Martin Brody so famously exclaimed, “We’re going to need a bigger boat,” he probably would have been hoping for something more akin to Project 406. This monster would have made Jaws’ fictitious great white look like a guppy. Royal Huisman’s aluminum hulled Project 406, equipped with an endlessly long bow, high bulwarks and an uncluttered cockpit you could comfortably play a half-court pickup game on, has easily stolen the title of world’s largest sportfisherman, at 171 feet. The previous belt holder, a Trinity Yachts design named Bad Company, measures in at a mere 144 feet. Project 406 is also, without a doubt, one of the most luxurious sportfishermen ever conceived; so not only can you catch Jaws with her (and half a dozen of his cousins), but you could…

Taking Stock

Small moments at peace on the boat can leave lasting effects in their wake. We were anchored off our local beach on an idyllic summer day seven years ago when my then nine year-old son climbed up the swim ladder and mentioned something about Tesla. One of our neighbors at the marina had been an early adopter and had given my smallest crewmember a brief tour of the Muskmobile the day before. This suitably impressed the little swimmer. “It’s like the future!” he exclaimed. We’ll see. Sensing this as an opportunity, I opened his eyes to the concept of investing so that he, too, can one day anchor off the beach on a nice boat. In a simple-enough way that would hold his attention, I explained that one of the great…

Best Dog Ever

As I struggle through this column, I look down on the floor next to my chair and expect to see him there, patiently waiting for me to finish so we can throw the ball once more before we close up the yard and head for home. After a catch at the end of the day, he had the closing drill down and would run in front of me to wait at each checkpoint. East compressor, Seminole gate, up the stairs to the finished parts room, and down to the rolling gate where he’d look at me as if to say, “Come on, Dad, you’re dragging ass.” Then on to the north roll-up door, the center shed, west compressor, paint shop, carpenter shop, machine shop, and stock room, out ahead of…

Pitching Boats, Not Fastballs

My friend Joe’s dad was a sports fanatic, he followed his college football and basketball teams closely, and didn’t miss many of his favorite professional team’s games on TV. Given this influence, it was no surprise that Joe wanted to try out for little league and went on to letter in more than one sport in high school. My father on the other hand was an outdoorsman, so growing up, I had no exposure to competitive ball sports. These differences, however, didn’t keep Joe and me from being best friends. Growing up, we probably spent as many nights at each other’s houses as we did our own. Joe’s dad would spend hours teaching him how to track a fly-ball and time his swing, while my dad was teaching me how to…

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Bob Nordskog: Honoring a Legend

For us at Powerboat, there were two sides to Bob, the publisher/boat tester and the racer. The story of our Performance Trials is chronicled annually. After launching the magazine in 1968, Bob, who also owned a marine dealership in the San Fernando Valley area of California, developed his own rigorous test program to help improve the quality of the products being sold to the public. During the next 22 years, he evaluated 1,196 pleasureboats, everything from tournament inboard ski boats to runabouts to performance tunnels to monster 47′ offshore wave mashers.

When I came out from the East Coast to interview with Bob and our current publisher, his son, Jerry, in early 1991, Bob the boat racer won me over. He had just given me the tour of his famed Competition Center, where he kept all his raceboats in Van Nuys, Calif., and told glorious stories with charm and intensity. It was like a walk through powerboat racing history, a selection of endurance tunnels, flatbottoms and Cigarette, Scarab and Fountain offshore boats covering the immaculate floor. T-shirts from all the events the Nordskog Racing Team competed in were folded and framed on the wall when you first walked in, and there was a trophy and photo room that was mind-boggling. I consider it an honor that I was the last editor Bob personally hired. He did it with a handshake and a smile, saying, “Welcome aboard.” It was clear that counter offers wouldn’t be entertained. Bob’s offer was his offer, and you either took it or you didn’t.

By the time I started at Powerboat, Bob spoke in a soft voice thanks to vocal cord damage sustained bv shouting over open exhaust all those years. People still listened to the charismatic, Seattle-born Californian with the slicked-back hair and blue eyes. When you put a camera or microphone in front of Bob, he knew how to make the best of the opportunity, promoting his racing teams, his magazine or his various campaigns in the name of safety on the water.

At my first Performance Trials in 1991, all the other members of the Test Team hazed me, telling me Bob hated it when people get seasick or messed up in the test program. “Don’t screw up,” said Bob Teague, now our lead tester. “He hates to have to do things twice.”

The other rule at The Trials was never be late. When you were late at the Trials, Bob said you weren’t just holding up the Test Team, you were holding up the hundreds of employees back at Nordskog Industries, because you were keeping Bob away from the office longer than he had to be.

After a sleepless night, I climbed into my first boat with Bob at The Trials. I had five pens, a tape recorder, backup tapes, batteries for the recorder and every other accessory I could possibly need. As for the seasickness, I had never suffered from it, but I was concerned that looking down at gauges and trying to write down data while a boat is being whipped through turns could be a nasty catalyst.

Turned out we made a pretty good team. Bob cracked jokes and had fun, loving every minute of being in the boats. In those days, we did our speed runs by driving close by an anchored boat and having a team member on that boat shoot us with a radar gun. One time, we came a little too close and clipped the anchor line with the drive. No one was hurt, but the guys on the anchored boat were rattled. Bob looked over at me and giggled, “Guess we came a little too close.”

Another time, a boat started chine-walking. Having never experienced this, I thought that for sure we were going to get wet. Bob reached over, tapped a button and, voila, no more chine-walk. He had an uncanny way of making boats work.

Another time we were in the middle of a particularly stormy week at Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven, Fla. Within seconds, the rain turned into torrential downpour. Bob looked over at me and told me to figure out how to get back to the docks. While he drove, I stood up, pelted in the face with pouring rain at 50 mph, and proceeded to get us lost even worse. Eventually we lucked into finding the docks.

Bob felt his Performance Trials and Awards For Product Excellence Program were the most important in the marine industry, and he let the manufacturers know they should promote the honors they received. Almost of them did and still do, recognizing that to this day we still conduct the. Trials in the tradition Bob intended, putting the boats up to the harshest scrutiny in the business. The United States Coast Guard recognized Bob’s contribution to the marine industry, presenting him with a citation for his dedication to advancing safety.

Those who spent time with Bob Nordskog have plenty of colorful memories. We asked former Nordskog Racing crew members and competitors to recall special moments.

We were running in the Long Beach to Ensenada race in the early 1970s. We had never made the Mexican waters, and Bob was so upset about all his inboards breaking in previous races he fired everyone except Norm Teague. So Bob bought this outboard-powered Magnum and decided we were going to race it in the Ensenada race. I made the charts and had them all laid out. It’s not too complicated. Keep the Americas to your left. I made this big chart and screwed it down on the deck. We’re going along just a-hitting and a-getting, and this deck is just wobbling back and forth like Jello. Just as we crossed the border, the chart started lifting. All of a sudden the thing just took off. Here I am in Mexican waters knowing I have to keep the land to my left, but I had to clear the Toda Santos Islands that I had to keep to port. Right alongside were the Witt brothers. I hadn’t seen what I thought was the Toda Santos, the Witts are heading in and Bob’s going crazy. It was all I could do to keep him going. Finally we saw our rocks and then we turned in. We were the only ones to get to Ensenada. We won. -Noel Younger , navigator, 1964-1981, and vice president of human resources, Nordskog Industries.

I’d have to say the best was when we crossed the finish line for the San Francisco to L.A. run, setting the record at 5 hours and 57 minutes. It was the best record we ever did. -Norm Teague , crew chief, 1968-1992.

I can’t believe how we thrashed in the Parker Enduro days, racing three KT boats at once. The teamwork, everyone working together. Then there was the time we went down to Salton Sea for a week to set diesel speed records, working in the dirt and sand and changing motors at a truck stop. -Bob Teague , crew member and navigator, 1971-1991

The race that comes to mind was the one at Marina del Rey, which was Bob’s last race (victorious). It was smooth water. Both of us ran hard, and we were side-by-side. Racing against him is what made it fun because he had raced for so long. –  Carson Brummett , Super V-class competitor, 1990-1991.

Nordskog By The Numbers:

• Number of Pleasureboats tested: 1,196
• Fastest Boat Tested: Douglas Skater, 102 MPH, 1992
• Age Started Powerboat Racing: 36 in 1949
• Age in First Offshore Race: 49
• Age in Last Offshore Race: 79

– Article by Powerboat Editor Eric Colby, published in Powerboat Magazine August 1997

Also see The Lure of Powerboating from The Saturday Evening Post (Nov/Dec 1991)

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Aitken’s visionary expression can be found in respected institutions around the the globe, including New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, the Vienna Secession, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. His awards are substantial: the International Prize at the Venice Biennale, the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award, the Frontier Art Prize and other recognition.

“ Mirage ,” a site-specific sculpture that takes the form of a home completely covered in mirrors and set in the heart of the Californian desert, was installed in 2017. It has also been installed in Detroit (2018) and in Gstaad, Switzerland (2019-21). In July 2019, Aiken launched the project New Horizon, a multifaceted art event challenging the notion of art in the 21st-century. The project was composed of a series of live events across the state of Massachusetts, centered around a stunning reflective hot air balloon and gondola. In 2022, a large-scale survey of his artwork was featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

The Southern California art crowd will immerse themselves in Aiken’s “notion of art in the 21st century” at the late summer al fresco gathering. Terrace by Mix Mix, South Coast Plaza will cater a very specifically curated dinner accompanied by the Chris Norton Band, admired by high profile music patrons supporting the Cannes Film Festival, New York Fashion Week, the Whitney Gala and even Super Bowl halftime fans. An expected highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the “Excellence in Art Education award” bestowed upon local educator John Gunnin .

To support OCMA, where admission is free to the public, ArtSense attendance begins at $5,000 per person. For more details, contact Tim Silverman at the museum, (714) 780-20235 or [email protected] .

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B.W. Cook is editor of the Bay Window, the official publication of the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.

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