Chuck Norris is a legend, a hero, an actor, a karate champion and a world champion offshore powerboat racer. There really is not much Chuck Norris can’t do. I love his movies too. Lone Wolf McQuade is one of my all time favorites. But, we are here to talk about boats. In the 70s and 80s boat racing was quite a bit different than it is now. Back then, we didn’t have poker runs and racing was more of an isolated sport, it has never been the best spectator sport. But, when offshore powerboat racing became a TV sport, where helicopters could capture the footage and when the boats became really fast, it became fairly popular. One thing that has never changed, at least in big offshore, is you need money to race. Racing was reserved for boat builders with sponsors, wealthy entrepreneurs and for a time, Hollywood celebrities. Chuck Norris was a big star at the time and some of his biggest races were against other celebrities like Don Johnson and Kurt Russell. All three are also known to have incredible mullets back then. There were others but these guys were big stars and were super competitive. Don Johnson was the 1988 world offshore champion, so he wasn’t just some poser with great hair and a fake tan; the tan was actually real.