White offshore race boat with a canopy

A long, low offshore race boat at speed in the Keys, white with a lime accent and WHIR·WIND across the hull, somebody standing on its foredeck. One character of that word is under spray, and the smaller line below it sits under this site's floor, so neither is a name we can hand you.

A long, narrow offshore hull at speed, low in the frame and throwing a wall of spray that swallows its own stern. The topsides are white. The deck ahead of the cockpit is closed and comes to a point, with dark round scoops set into it in pairs, and behind that a low angular canopy rather than an open screen. Somebody stands on the foredeck ahead of the canopy; the top of the crop cuts them off at the waist, so all that shows is a pair of bare legs.

Across the hull side, in a dark blue-violet, is a word in heavy sans capitals, comfortably above this site’s floor for lettering. Eight of its nine characters come apart cleanly on the master: W, H, I, R, then a gap, then W, I, N, D. The fifth is behind a burst of spray and does not separate at all, on the true pixel grid at eight times as at one. WHIRLWIND is the obvious completion and we are telling you it is a completion, not a reading. Ahead of the word sits a round emblem with a white spiral in it; behind the word the white gives way to a lime-green graphic panel that runs aft.

Lower down on the bow there is a second line at about a third the height of the first, and that puts it under the floor: its characters are recorded as our own reading on the sighting and are not printed here.

This is the boat at the far left of the boat-party still in the Keys, and this crop is that corner of the frame at full size. GTA 5’s Speeder carried its own model name on the bow, ‘Speeder’ badges on either side, according to the GTA Wiki; on a race hull a big word over a smaller one can as easily be a sponsor as a model, and this frame does not say which.

How to recognise it

• Long, low offshore hull with a closed, pointed foredeck
• Dark round scoops in the deck, set in pairs
• A low angular canopy over the cockpit rather than an open windscreen
• White topsides with a lime-green graphic panel aft
• A round emblem with a white spiral, ahead of the lettering
• Heavy blue-violet capitals across the hull side, with a much smaller second line under them on the bow, under the reading floor

The frame it comes from

The frame is a still from the official Press pack, which carries no timecode. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 645 by 100 of it. Also in it: the Leonida Keys, Lürepredator L35P, and a motor yacht.

How this was measured

These figures come from the dataset, not from the prose above. We measure everything and claim what counts. How we work

What we still do not know

• What the lettering names. On a race boat a big word over a smaller one is as likely to be a sponsor as a model, so this page carries a descriptive name and not WHIRLWIND.
• The fifth character of the big word, behind spray, and the whole of the small line, under the floor.
• The whole stern, the engines and the drives, all of which are inside the boat’s own spray.
• Whether this is the same hull as any other go-fast on this site. Nothing in this frame settles it.
• Everything measured: top speed, handling, where it spawns