Saris Racing Engines & Team Saris Performance Marine

Thank you to Saris Racing Engines and Team Saris Performance Marine for being a boat build partner and sponsor of Buckle Up and for bringing their offshore racing expertise to this exciting project.

Jason Saris started professionally offshore racing in 1982. At the time he was working at Keith Hazell's Harbor 1 Marina in Ft. Lauderdale and completely immersed in the fast-growing sport of offshore. His first offshore win would be that same year driving a 30ft Flight Marine cat called "Sheer Terror." Since then, Jason has won 7 National Championships and 8 World Championships. Lessons learned while working for Hazell combined with 40 years of offshore racing experience are applied every day at Team Saris Performance Marine. At the same time, he was racing with Sheer and managing Harbor 1. Jason also worked his way up to head of maintenance for the US Customs Department's fleet of USA Racing Cats. Since then, hulls that Saris has rigged, powered and maintained have won multiple National and World Titles, set kilo records and endurance records. The experience gained from competition gives them the ability to build you the ultimate pleasure or race engines with the upmost confidence it won't let you down. In 2009 he started racing with his son, Johnny. Since then, the Saris Racing Team has won 7 World Championships and 3 National Championships.

Jason’s son Johnny, has now taken over the daily operations of Saris Racing and is still building, rigging and racing offshore. Johnny is building the performance racing engine for Buckle Up and the intention here is to break all previous lobster boat speed records and set new ones every time Buckle Up races. Johnny’s wife is originally from Presque Isle, Maine and is just as excited to be a part of this historic build and can’t wait to come back to her roots to watch history be made in Maine’s most iconic racing circuit!