Team Bermuda wins rough-sea catamaran race at Thunder On Cocoa Beach

Team Bermuda turned a brutal Cocoa Beach chop into a statement win, as Steven Bridges and David Selley powered their 32-foot twin-engined catamaran to Super Stock victory in rough seas and by a margin of just 3.079 seconds. The pair crossed the line after four laps in 24:26.244, holding off Darren Kittredge and Casey Boaz aboard Northwing Offshore in one of the sharpest finishes of Thunder on Cocoa Beach.

The race landed inside the event’s 16th year, a four-day run from May 14-17, 2026 on Florida’s Space Coast that has become one of the state’s biggest offshore gatherings. With premier-class boats capable of more than 175 mph, Thunder on Cocoa Beach asked crews to do more than simply chase speed. In 6 to 7-foot waves, staying settled mattered as much as getting the throttle down.

Bridges and Selley did that with patience and precision, taking the lead on the penultimate lap and never giving it back. Wozencraft finished third, STR-Allied was fourth, Team Allen Lawn Care took fifth and Nuff Said placed sixth in the official Sunday results. The other Bermuda-connected entry, Nuff Said with Luis Martins and Nick Imprescia, gave the island another top-six finish in the same rough-water battle.

The result gave Team Bermuda its second win of the season and a stronger grip on the 2026 IHRA Offshore Powerboat Series. After three rounds, the team led the Super Stock standings with 331 points, 27 clear of the chase, giving the Cocoa Beach run real championship weight rather than just weekend bragging rights. In a series that opened with St. Petersburg and then moved through the early-season rounds, Bridges and Selley kept proving they can convert a fast boat into results when the water turns ugly.

For Selley, that edge sits on deep Bermuda roots. His uncle, Craig Selley, won the Around the Island race five times and set the 1982 course record, while his father, Mark Selley Sr., raced for more than 20 years and twice served as Commodore of the Bermuda Power Boat Association. Bridges and Selley first raced together in U.S. offshore competition at Clearwater in September 2022 and finished fourth in Super Stock with less than an hour of testing. On Sunday, the same partnership looked far more polished, and the same Doug Wright S-25 that has already carried Shaun Torrente to a St. Petersburg win again showed why Bermuda’s offshore identity travels so well.