Back in Bermuda
Chris Davies on 30th April 2022
The 2022 Bermuda Power Boat Racing Association season powerboat will officially get under way at Ferry Reach this weekend.

Competitors will all be keen to lay down an early marker in the senior and youth powerboat classes and jet-ski league after the start of last season was delayed from April to June owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. This resulted in the BPBA’s 2020 season being cancelled. Last year saw the relaunch the BPBA’s junior programme, which proved to be extremely popular among race fans, while the jet-skis returned from an eleven-year absence. The association also introduced a cash prize incentive for the top three adult teams in each race for the first-time.

Robert Cardwell, who was returned as Commodore during the BPBA’s annual meeting in January said

The 2022 powerboat racing season is upon us, and we have the first Ferry Reach race planned for this coming Sunday. We will have Junior GT15 races followed by jet ski and powerboat races. We hope to run the usual A, B, C, D and S classes. Our teams are hustling to get their boats ready, and we are hoping for a good turnout.

Last year the junior season was a huge hit and Cardwell is looking to increase this and also expect more jet skis to sign up to race through 2022. They have also planned to have a race from Cross Island, Dockyard, in June.

Amongst those juniors taking to the water this weekend will be thirteen-year-old Tristan Hocking. Last season he reeled off a string of wins in his age group competing in the GT15 monohull class at Ferry Reach during the summer relaunch of the Bermuda Power Boat Association’s junior programme.

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