If you spent last week in Key West, Fla., for the Florida Powerboat Club and Race World Offshore affairs, you might be ready for a boating-event break. The events of 2026 were many and mighty and nationwide. Folks willing to travel had lots of choices, but with happenings from Lake Havasu City, Ariz., to Norfolk, Va., there was a good chance something happened on a waterway relatively close to home.
You could even need a pause.
Looking for something to do on the water later this month? Help is on the way thanks to Fort Myers Offshore. Photo by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix.
Regardless, now we enter the event doldrums. Weather allowing where you live—it is still fall though not for long—there’s nothing to stop you from putting together something with a few other go-fast-owning friends. But as far as organized boating events go this month, you’re pretty much out of luck.
The exception to this is the November 28 Turkey Run to Riviera Dunes produced by Fort Myers Offshore in Southwest Florida.
The Riviera dunes lunch-outing is second event on the nonprofit’s scholarship fundraising club’s 2026/2027 schedule. The first was the outfit’s run to Marco Island late last month. Sure to be fed by pent-up boating demand as the hijinks and hilarity of Key West will be long forgotten by then, last year’s Fort Myers Offshore Turkey Run attracted a record-setting 60 plus entries.
As a practical matter of maintaining family harmony, the Fort Myers group’s Turkey Run may come a little too close to Turkey Day itself. Depends on the family, right?
Mine, for example, is demanding I stay home that weekend. It’s non-negotiable.
Fortunately, I’ll have reporter J.R. Bellis there to handle coverage.
But if you’re willing to wait an extra weekend to satisfy your boating habit, the Toys Tour returns Saturday, December 5, to Palatka, Fla. As previously reported, primary organizer Scott McCormick has a personal commitment that well, but a loosely organized group of holiday-boating fans led by McCormick’s friend Brad Christopher has picked up the reins and is moving ahead in his absence.
Spring and summer will be here before you know it. Of course, you also know that’s just something people tell go-fasting to make them feel better. There are lean event-months ahead. No way to argue otherwise.
Still, November isn’t a total wasteland.