Thanks for visiting my site. I love to drive offshore racing powerboats, and I am lucky to have driven many over the past 20 years. I started by working on and testing them and eventually I began to drive them in races. I have shared some of my pictures and my enthusiasm for the sport. Feel free to email with comments or suggestions.



I raced locally and in a few National events for nearly 10 years. It is said luck is when opportunity and preparation come together. 1998 is when luck came my way. I spent most of that year working on Fountain's SuperV  team, transporting and preparing V 76 for Art Lilly and Jeff Harris. I became friends with many people from Fountain and around the country during the '98 season. By seasons end, I was driving a Factory 2 boat for Martin Sanborn. We ran fantastic together, winning and setting course speed records in our first race together. 


From 1998 to 2004, racing was my priority. For the most part, I participated in racing full time, doing everything from transporting and preparing race boats  to driving others in races. During this time, with  five different throttle men, I won:

11 races                                                                                                                2 World Championships,  Runner-up 3 times
2 National Championships                                                                                  1 APBA/UIM World Speed Record                                                                     2 SBI Course speed records


You may recognize some of the offshore race boats : Rock Solid   B- 1,  Fountain   V-76,     Spiderman  8,   Pier 57  1,   Speedware  F2-55,   Matco Fountain  F2-71,   Voyager  F2-1.

         You can see pictures of these boats on pages of teams listed above.   

                  
I grew up on the South River near Annapolis, Maryland. I have also lived at the Jersey Shore and recently settled in Austin, Texas near Lake Travis.

I have been servicing, rigging, and repairing Mercury and Mercruiser powered boats most of my life. I operate a mobile service repair company in Austin and bring all my experience to boaters looking for special attention.




If you are in need of my assistance and live in Central Texas near Austin
Please take time to check out my business site:
  mobileMERCman.com 







In 2009,  I am again the Crew Chief for Ryan's race boat at the OSS races.




The 30 Douglas Skater races at speeds over 100 mph.

Ryan owns  Doubledge Motorsports and Kinectic Animation in Sarasota  Florida.




I can be reached for questions or comments at jrsperos@yahoo.com.

Here are some pictures from the 80s and early 90s.
More recent pictures can be found in other team pages listed above.