Key West 2010 Animated Slideshow

Click "play" above to watch the slideshow, or click here to see all of the Key West 2010 photos.

2010 Key West Photos are Online

It was another dramatic week at Key West Race Week. Even though we only had one day of good breeze, it was enough time to get great shots of every boat crashing over waves. Our photos are online, sorted by boat name, here. If you weren't racing and just want to take a look, check out the highlights.

Key West at its Best!

What a great day for photos! We enjoyed decent breeze and some nice waves rolling in from the South today off of Key West. Today's highlights will be posted later tonight.

Making things interesting

Sometimes you have to go wide (angle) and up close to make things interesting. This is a shot from a few feet off of Highland Fling's starboard quarter today.

When there's not much wind....

We look for other things to photograph...

Key West's dolphin and turtle populations have been quite visible this year in the light breeze.

2010 Key West Race Week mid-week update

Key West Race Week started on Monday with a beautiful sunny day- it was everything everybody comes to Key West for, except the wind. But the 9 knots or so was enough for the race committees to run two races on each course.

With "Near 10 Knots" in the forecast again for Tuesday, the 11 or 12 knots were a blessing, and though the clouds came in in the afternoon and the temperature dropped to the low 60s, a little bit more wind helped to feed the action. We have a bunch of great shots from both days, and look forward to today, Thurs, and Friday for some more great Key West Race Week Photos.

See our 2010 Key West Race Week photo gallery here and our highlights on Premiere Racing's site here.

Small Craft Advisory

Key West Race Week is still three days from the first gun, but we're here, so why not start putting our cameras to work. Today's bright sunshine, 25-29 knots from the ESE and a bunch of boats out practicing combined for some great photo ops for PhotoBoat. Still, the Coast Guard did not think so, as they felt it necessary to remind us that there was a small craft advisory, and we are, in fact, a small craft. The warning was much appreciated, but not heeded.

Keep an eye on our Key West Race Week Photos page for photos throughout the event.

Halfway to Miami

The Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race start today led to the same dilemma we have every year: you're in a dinghy off the Florida coast, 7 miles from the Port Everglades Inlet (the one from which you left) and 5 miles from Baker's Haulover Inlet in Miami. Do you turn around and go back or just keep going? We've even scoped out a good boat ramp at Baker's Haulover. As it turns out, we usually prefer extra mileage in the dinghy- even upwind- to sitting in traffic. So Fort Lauderdale it is.

We are always trackable with our SPOT at www.thephotoboat.com/location